This super scrumpdidlyicious healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes recipe is made with 7 ingredients total. That includes the coconut oil in which you sauté them! These pancakes are one of my super easy low-carb breakfast recipes that will make your mornings stress-free and extra tasty.
Low-Carb Pancakes Recipe Made with Cashews
Replacing high-carb wheat flour with lower-carb cashews is fantastic for those watching their blood sugar. Cashews work very well in baking for folks who are gluten-free, which is another reason I use them.
Cashew Recipes for Budget Cooking
I wrote the book on almond flour in 2008. Paleo Cooking from Elana’s Pantry was the first grain-free cookbook from a major publisher. Still, not everyone wants to invest in almond flour, which can be costly. If you’re cooking on a budget, you’ll want to check out my easy Cashew Recipes. No flour is needed in these easy recipes! My one-bowl Cashew Bread recipe is a fan-favorite sandwich bread with 5 ingredients total!
My Journey into Low-Carb Gluten-Free Eating
I was diagnosed with celiac disease in 1998, the dark ages of gluten-free, and went on a gluten-free diet right away. A short time later, I realized that wouldn’t be my ticket to healing and went on a grain-free paleo diet. I love creating grain-free recipes that do not contain high-carb ingredients like rice flour or potato flour. During this decades-long passion of mine, I’ve written almost 2,000 grain-free recipes.
The Grain-Free Paleo Diet
I don’t ever eat grains because they cause me severe digestive distress. Same with potatoes and corn. Nut-based foods, on the other hand, work very well, I digest them quite easily. Since we are all biochemical individuals what works best for me may not work for you.
Gluten-Free Pancakes Recipe for Dinner
While these quick and easy pancakes are a fantastic breakfast on a weekend morning, I also like to serve them along with an egg dish on Sunday nights for dinner. Breakfast for dinner is a family favorite in our house, and the boys especially appreciate the change in routine.
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Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup cashews
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup mashed banana
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup chocolate chips
- coconut oil for cooking
Instructions
- In a food processor, pulse cashews until finely ground
- Pulse in baking soda, then pulse in eggs, banana, and vanilla until very smooth
- Stir in chocolate chips by hand
- Heat oil in a 9 inch skillet over medium heat
- Spoon batter 1 tablespoon at a time onto skillet
- Flip pancakes when bubbles form
- Cook for 1 to 2 minutes on second side
- Serve with maple syrup or Cherry Berry Syrup
Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes Made with Cashews
I have a couple of quick notes regarding this grain-free pancake recipe. First, do not be alarmed if the cashews start to form a paste when you grind them in the food processor. This happened to me with a couple of batches and the recipe still turned out wonderfully. For newer readers, I do use one tablespoon of vanilla in this recipe. That is not a typo. I love vanilla and find this larger amount typically adds extra sweetness and flavor to my recipes.
Substitutions for This Easy Pancake Recipe
For those of you wondering about substitutions, I tried replacing the cashews with almond flour in this Banana Chocolate Chip Pancake recipe and it did not work. If you decide to experiment with this pancake recipe, please let us know how it goes. As always, I don’t know if a substitution will turn out well unless I try it myself. The comment section below is a great place to chat and share knowledge with other readers about your substitution trials and tribulations.
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If you’re looking for a pancake recipe made with almond flour, try the Paleo Pancakes in my latest book Paleo Cooking from Elana’s Pantry. And if you’re a beginner cook or a busy parent wondering how to make homemade pancakes either the Paleo Pancake recipe in my book or this Banana Chocolate Chip Pancake recipe is a great place to start!
Totally Kid Approved Pancakes
One afternoon when I was testing this easy flourless pancakes recipe my older son brought home most of the Boulder High School freshman baseball team. They devoured ’em topped with maple syrup before they headed off to practice. I guess you could say that this kid-friendly Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes recipe is not only teen approved, it is baseball team approved. I hope you enjoy these gluten-free, paleo Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes as much as those 9 boys did!
This post is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first published this recipe in 2014.
Lynda Finn says
I would LOVE to cook like this. I’ve been a wholefood freak for a very long time and I’m now gluten free, having developed an intolerance. However, buying these ingredients, which clearly you can get easily and cheaply, would break my meagre budget completely. Most items are available only at specialist shops and we don’t have any near here. To make a loaf from your wonderful recipes, would mean buying ingredients which are so expensive that they’d cost me almost half my food budget for the week . A ready made paleo loaf cost around $12US for a very small size, which sent me looking for recipes. But it seems, from pricing ingredients, that a home-made loaf would be pretty much the same price.
So I must dream on…….:)
Elana says
Hi Lynda, thanks for your comment :-)
kara says
I had to have done something really wrong because they did not turn out at all, they were thick battered and wouldn’t cook all the way through, instead the outside got very dark brown and the inside was mush…tasty mush I might add. But mush. I used chia eggs, after I read a reply saying that theirs turned out fantastic…who knows. I’m gonna try them again but with the eggs just for comparison….BTW I followed the recipe exact except for the chia seed eggs….
Elana says
Hi Kara, thanks for sharing your concern. Unfortunately chia eggs do not work in my recipes. I think you’re going to love these when you make them with real eggs, they’re incredible :-)
Jenifer says
Also, cook these at a lower heat.
Sheba says
These are yum! My 9 year old loved them. I added 1/2 teaspoon of organic stevia powder by sweet leaf. Also used dark choc chips with hardly any sweeter.
Elana says
Sheba, so glad you and your son loved ’em!
Kimberly says
Can you do this in a vitamix instead of a food processor? Or is this considered a substitution question?
Elana says
Hi Kimberly, I haven’t tried that so not sure it will work. If you do experiment please let us know how it goes!
Stephen says
My family likes Banana Chocolate very much. We will try it ASAP. Thanks for the recipe.
Elana says
Stephen, you’re very welcome!
Anna Orvarsson says
My entire family loves these pancakes! We eat them almost every Sunday morning. Now I make a double batch and the kids can eat the leftovers for snacks at school during the week. Thank you so much Elana for all of your amazing recipes. You help us to eat deliciously gluten-free (and mostly paleo). No more belly aches!
Elana says
Anna, you’re welcome! So glad to hear the entire family loves these pancakes!
StayC says
Just made these. I used Scharffen Berger 99% cacao chocolate and vanilla with no alcohol. These turned out really delicious and I will make again.
Elana says
StayC, thanks and glad you enjoyed these pancakes!
Justin says
So what can I use for a cashew sub? I saw this comment above “We do one banana, one egg, big scoop of sun butter & vanilla & cinnamon” But when do you mix it in and at what point? Sorry it was just a tad confusing. Any clarification? Thanks!
Meghna Mehta says
I love your blog. I’ve made many things from it with great success.
These turned out awesome like everything else I’ve made.
My husband, 10 year old daughter and I all loved the pancakes. That is an achievement in our house :-).
Elana says
Meghna, thanks for letting us know these turned out awesome :-)
Susana Lopez says
First time in my life I ate pancakes and today I made them with my children. They loved them! Thank u for sharing!
Elana says
Susana, you’re welcome. Glad y’all loved ’em!