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.
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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.
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Bananas Foster Coconut Pancakes
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 14 oz can lite coconut milk
- ¼ cup milk
- ⅓ cup coconut oil melted and cooled
- 2 eggs
Bananas Foster Topping
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons water
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 firm ripe bananas sliced
Instructions
- 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 ¼ cup batter onto hot griddle. Turn pancakes when bubbles form on top. Cook until second side is golden brown.
- Bananas Foster Topping
- 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
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
Mercedes
These look so fabulous Barbara! I love bananas foster as well and what a great idea to use it as a pancake topping!
Amy Tong
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.
teresa
i know what i’m making for breakfast tomorrow! YUMMY!
Jenni
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!
Angie@Angie's Recipes
This is mouthwatering! The topping looks extremely tempting.
angela@spinachtiger
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?
Barbara Schieving
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.
Valérie (Franche-Comté)
C’est parfait en ce week-end qui se promet très enneigé chez moi.
Je te souhaite une belle journée
Valérie.
Emily
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!
Jessica
Decadent and delicious looking!
Rachael {Simply Fresh Cooking}
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! 😉
Susan
I’m just loving these recipes with coconut! These look perfect for a special, weekend breakfast.
Cookin' Canuck
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!
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar
These pancakes sound so unreal! Love those bananas!
Averie @ Averie Cooks
Barbara – you outdid yourself! They are stunning and love the coconut milk & oil in them!
carrian
These look heavenly. Tomorrow morning will be perfect for them! And thanks for the link!!
Leslie
Love me some coconut oil. Love that it was added in to these delicious looking pancakes
Katrina @ In Katrina's Kitchen
These look incredible! All of those flavors going on!
Rosa
Divine and totally irresistible!
Cheers,
Rosa
Carolyn
Thanks for the mention. Your bananas foster pancakes look incredible!
steph@stephsbitebybite
Now this is a stack of pancakes!