Coconut Flour Pancakes with Chocolate Cream Syrup

Here is a huge kid-pleaser!

As a change from our usual eggs and bacon, this morning I made coconut flour pancakes with chocolate cream syrup – the kids were in pure heaven.  Gaps-legal of course as we are all following the gaps diet (not intro), a nice change from nut-flour pancakes, and full of good bacteria!  I am always looking for delicious ways to get more good bacteria in the kids, and this is definitely one of their faves.

I modified the coconut flour pancake recipe from cheeseslave, then added a probiotic-filled topping:

Coconut Flour Pancakes with Chocolate Cream Syrup

Pancake Ingredients:

• 4 eggs (from our pastured chickens)
• 3 tablespoons melted raw butter (grassfed) or organic coconut oil
• 3 tablespoons raw milk or cream (grass-fed)
• pinch stevia powder
• 3 tablespoons coconut flour (I used Bob’s Red Mill)
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder (aluminum-free)

Syrup Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup organic maple syrup (grade B is best)
• 1/2 cup homemade creme fraiche (cultured raw cream)
• 3 tablespoons organic cocoa powder
• 1 raw egg yolk (optional)

Directions:

For pancakes, mix the wet ingredients plus the stevia.  Add the dry ingredients and mix until the lumps are gone.  Cook on a cast-iron skillet with butter or coconut oil to grease if necessary.

For syrup, whisk together the syrup, creme fraiche, and cocoa powder until smooth.  You can also add an egg yolk for extra nutrition, but this will cause the syrup to crystallize some so it won’t be as smooth.  If the syrup is too thick to pour (and you care), you can add some milk, cream, or even more maple syrup to thin.

Eat pancakes with plenty of raw butter and topped with the syrup!  Watch them disappear before your eyes like magic!

This also makes an excellent dessert, by rolling the pancakes containing the butter and syrup, securing with a toothpick, then adding homemade whipped cream and drizzling it all with the syrup- mmmmmmm.

I made a double-batch of the pancakes so we could have leftovers for lunch/snack sandwiches- a huge time-saver and one of our staples.  We will probably fill them with homemade cream cheese (from homemade raw milk yogurt) and some raw honey.

Enjoy!!