Whole wheat pancakes made with coconut oil and lite coconut milk, topped with bananas in a caramel sauce and sprinkled with toasted coconut.
While perusing the recipes in the SuperFood Kitchen cookbook recently, I found a pancake recipe that uses coconut oil. (Last week I posted about the benefits of using coconut oil.) The recipe directs you to use a blender to emulsify the coconut oil with the milk to create a lighter fluffier pancake. I decided to combine this technique with my favorite whole wheat pancake recipe. I also amped up the coconut flavor by using lite coconut milk.
To give the pancakes even more of a tropical flavor, I decided to add bananas, and my favorite way to eat bananas is bananas foster. It’s a bit of a decadent topping for a healthier pancake, but probably not more calories than eating pancakes with maple syrup, and they’re definitely way more fun.
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 14 oz can lite coconut milk
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted and cooled
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 firm ripe bananas, sliced
Directions
- Preheat griddle to 375º.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In a blender, blend together coconut milk, milk, coconut oil and eggs until frothy. Add to flour mixture and stir until just combined.
- Grease the griddle with coconut oil. Pour 1/4 cup batter onto hot griddle. Turn pancakes when bubbles form on top. Cook until second side is golden brown.
- Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, water and vanilla stir until smooth. Add the banana slices and stir to coat evenly. Allow to cook for 1 minute (don’t overcook the banana.) Remove from heat.
More pancake recipes you might like:
Cinnamon Swirl Pumpkin Pancakes, Barbara Bakes
Orange Pancakes with Berry-Orange Sauce, Iowa Girl Eats
Whole Wheat Oat Gingerbread Pumpkin Pancake Recipe, Cookin’ Canuck
Multi Grain Chocolate Pancakes, Sweet Basil
Carrot Cake Pancakes, All Day I Dream About Food
Peanut Butter Pancakes, Your Homebased Mom
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Now this is a stack of pancakes!
Thanks for the mention. Your bananas foster pancakes look incredible!
Divine and totally irresistible!
Cheers,
Rosa
These look incredible! All of those flavors going on!
Love me some coconut oil. Love that it was added in to these delicious looking pancakes
These look heavenly. Tomorrow morning will be perfect for them! And thanks for the link!!
Barbara – you outdid yourself! They are stunning and love the coconut milk & oil in them!
These pancakes sound so unreal! Love those bananas!
Wow, what a fantastic recipe, Barbara! I, too, am a fan of bananas foster, plus I love that these are made with whole wheat flour. Thank you for including my pancakes!
I’m just loving these recipes with coconut! These look perfect for a special, weekend breakfast.
Yes please, I’ll take a stack with a tall glass of milk!! I’ve been browsing recipes for hours today (hanging out on the couch recovering from surgery), and this is my #1 favorite find!! Yum!
Decadent and delicious looking!
I almost bought coconut oil at Trader Joe’s but wasn’t sure how/where/when to use it. Now I have a great excuse to pick up some during my next visit!
C’est parfait en ce week-end qui se promet très enneigé chez moi.
Je te souhaite une belle journée
Valérie.
I’ve been staring at these for a few minutes now. I know that means I’ll be thinking about them all day. Barbara is there any way to make these without eggs?
Hi Angela – I think they would work out okay without the eggs, you would have to increase the baking powder. I would try 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder, and be sure and use an aluminum free baking powder.
This is mouthwatering! The topping looks extremely tempting.
Oh, wow, Barbara! Just wow!! The only thing I can think of to say is: “Can I come over for breakfast?!?! Please?!” LOL. These look amazing!
i know what i’m making for breakfast tomorrow! YUMMY!
What a gorgeous stacks of pancakes! I love the flavors in them. I’ve been using a lot more coconut oil lately as a healthier kind of oil. These would be perfect to make for weekend breakfast.
Thanks for sharing.
These look so fabulous Barbara! I love bananas foster as well and what a great idea to use it as a pancake topping!
Mum, I’d get up at any hour for a serve of these delicious pancakes! I’ve had bananas fosters a few times and every time, I finished every drop!
xxx
these sound amazing. I love coconut and who doesn;t love bananas foster!
I am totally loving these!! I love anything bananas foster, and these are calling my name!
These are just mouthwatering! Almost too pretty to eat. Thanks too for linking to my peanut butter pancakes and supporting my first Linky Party!!