I wish I would have had time while cooking these to get a shot of how it looks when you add the jelly on top of the pancake batter, but that part goes pretty quickly and I really didn’t want to burn my pancakes! But anyway, you basically add the batter to the griddle, spread it around with a spoon to make it a nice circle. Then you gently add the jelly in the middle and kind of smooth it out a bit so it’s not super thick, then add more pancake batter on top. Make sure you cover up all that jelly or it will escape the pancake! And probably burn. I’m not positive because I managed to get these right the first time around ;P
I used about 2 tbsp worth of the jelly for the inside of the pancakes and as you can see, a lot of it oozed out pretty immediately after cutting into them but a lot of it stayed inside the pancakes too. You can see the pocket it makes inside the pancakes. Yum!
Peanut Butter and Jelly Stuffed Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup rolled oats
- 1 tbsp PB2 powdered peanut butter
- 1 scoop Cellucor Peanut Butter Marshmallow whey protein
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 egg white
- 3 tbsp Dannon Light and Fit Vanilla Greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
"Jelly" Ingredients:
- 6 strawberries chopped
- 1 tbsp honey
- 2 tsp water
- 1/2 tsp chia seeds
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, bring strawberries, honey, and water to a boil, then simmer on low heat for 5 minutes. Place in a food processor and blend until smooth. Divide strawberry sauce in half. Add chia seeds to one half of the sauce, mix and set aside in refrigerator (preferably overnight).
- In a food processor or NutriBullet, mill the rolled oats until they form a fine powder. Mix in all other dry pancake ingredients, then add wet ingredients and mix until smooth.
- Heat a griddle over medium high heat and spray with non-stick cooking spray. Drop pancake batter onto griddle to form 3 medium pancakes, reserving about 3 tbsp of batter. Spoon 1-2 tsp of jelly onto the center of the batter and then gently pour a little pancake batter evenly over the top to cover the jelly completely.
- Once the pancake batter begins to bubble, gently flip and continue cooking the other side of the pancake until golden brown.
- Drizzle the non-chia strawberry sauce over top of the pancakes before serving and add a dollop of peanut butter if desired.
If you would prefer not to use chia jelly, just use whatever jam or jelly fits your taste. For a strawberry “syrup,” just thin the jelly with a bit of water and mix well before pouring on top of the pancakes.
I made pancakes with strawberry topping and protein powder almost just like this a few days ago for National Strawberry Day!