Whole wheat pancakes made with coconut oil and lite coconut milk, topped with bananas in a caramel sauce and sprinkled with toasted coconut. These Bananas Foster Coconut Pancakes are a little taste of the tropics.  

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.

I hope you’ll give them a try.

Yield: 6 servings

Bananas Foster Coconut Pancakes

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Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

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

Bananas Foster Topping

• 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

Instructions

1. Preheat griddle to 375º.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
3. In a blender, blend together coconut milk, milk, coconut oil and eggs until frothy. Add to flour mixture and stir until just combined.
4. 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.

Bananas Foster Topping

1. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, water and vanilla stir until smooth.
2. Add the banana slices and stir to coat evenly. Allow to cook for 1 minute (don’t overcook the banana.) Remove from heat.

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