Oh surprise! Guess who made some more protein pancakes on Sunday? It was me. Probably a lot of other cool people too, but this is my blog, not theirs 🙂 And yes, I’m posting this 2 days late. I was too busy eating these to write about them immediately!
Normally I like some fruit in my pancakes since fruit just belongs with breakfast. But who can argue with peanut butter and chocolate? Not this kid.
Looking at these pancakes now, they sort of look like a cake with peanut butter icing on top. That’s cool and all, just not very pancake like. Maybe next time I’ll add some more almond milk to the “frosting” – I ran out while I was making these! I don’t understand why Safeway runs out of things like almond milk…and grocery carts. I mean, how hard is it to keep those things around?
Since peanut butter and chocolate are pretty self-explanatory, let’s get on with the recipe, shall we?
Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Pancakes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 1
Calories per serving 402 kcal
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup rolled oats
- 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 scoop Cellucor S'mores whey protein powder
- 2 egg whites
- 3 tbsp unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 3 tbsp unsweetened applesauce
- Optional: 1 tbsp semi-sweet mini chocolate chips
Peanut Butter Topping Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp Dannon Light and Fit Non-Fat Greek Vanilla yogurt
- 1 tbsp PB2 powdered peanut butter
- 2 tbsp unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 1/2 tbsp Simply Jif peanut butter
- Optional: 4 Ghirardelli 60% dark chocolate chips melted
Instructions
- In a small bowl, whisk together topping ingredients until smooth. Set aside.
- In a food processor or Nutribullet, mill the oats until they form a fine powder.
- In a medium bowl, combine all pancake ingredients.
- Heat a large skillet or griddle over medium-low heat and spray with non-stick cooking spray. Spoon pancake mixture onto griddle to form 3-4 medium sized pancakes. Cook until the top begins to bubble, then flip and cook through.
- Top pancakes with peanut butter topping and serve.
Recipe Notes
Recipe updated on 1/24/2016 to make the pancakes more moist!
Nutrition Facts
Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Pancakes
Amount Per Serving
Calories 402 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Fat 10g15%
Cholesterol 36mg12%
Sodium 467mg20%
Carbohydrates 40g13%
Fiber 8g33%
Sugar 8g9%
Protein 43g86%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
These look amazingly delicious!
hi, what is the PB2?
It's powdered peanut butter. Check it out under my Cool Stuff tab or by Googling it!
Hey, if you have a peanut allergy, could you use almond butter (not powdered) instead of the pb2? I haven't had any luck finding a replacement product for the pb2 that is peanut free.
Hi Tav, unfortunately it wouldn't be a simple substitution to replace the PB2 with almond butter because they have very different consistencies. You could try replacing the PB2 with protein powder and the peanut butter with almond butter in the topping. Let me know how it turns out if you try!
Hi, I tried 5o make these but they fell apart and stuck hard to the pan. I used a cast iron pan with small amount of real butter but still stuck. They just crumbled.:(
Hi, I tried 5o make these but they fell apart and stuck hard to the pan. I used a cast iron pan with small amount of real butter but still stuck. They just crumbled.:(