Caramel Apple Pie Pancakes

I used to love Apple Pie. Especially with whipped cream. Whoops. Not sorry about it.

But when I became a coeliac with a dairy allergy and then a vegan, all of those dreams of being able to just simply go to the bakery and pick up a good old apple pie or an apple turnover, still piping hot and all, died. They have been long dead. I haven't done that kind of thing in years. If I could, I would. Believe me. Every day (hehe).

BUT LET US NOT GET ALL SAD NOW. These pancakes… wow. It was a taste of my childhood again. A taste of pre-ballet training program, Mum's shout kind of afternoons. And it tasted good man. It tasted so good. Next time, I will be trying with coconut yoghurt, for the full blown effect. Try it with me. Here comes the recipe loves…

Ingredients: 

1/4 cup Brown Rice flour 

1/4 cup Buckwheat flour (you can use all the one type of flour if you want) 

1 tsp Baking powder/ soda 

Maca powder (as much as you like, I use this one) 

1 apple, half very finely chopped or grated and the other half in bigger chunks, all peeled 

2 flax or chia eggs (1 tbsp flax or chia to 3 tbsp of water is one egg, so two of those) 

1/2 cup of almond milk/ any plantbased milk 

1 banana, mashed (you can leave half of the banana out for decoration if you like, in which case don't mash the whole thing) 

Optional: cinnamon (not really an option, you need cinnamon in there c'mon guys hehe but as much as you like, I personally put illegal amounts in there) and maca powder (not necessary, but I love maca and it gave it the caramel flavour) 

Method: 

Make your flax eggs first and foremost, and pop them in the fridge for a little while. In the mean time, peel your apple and cut it in half, with one half for the poached apple and the other for the pancakes themselves. For the poached apple, cut them into bigger chunks. Put a saucepan of water on to boil and coat your apple pieces in a mixture of vanilla, cinnamon and maca and pop them in the boiling water. Reduce the heat so that the apples can simmer for 10 minutes or so, until soft. Remove from the heat. 

Move onto the pancakes now! Put all the dry ingredients (so the flour/s, the baking powder, and the cinnamon and maca if you're using them) in a bowl and combine. Then, add the wet ingredients (mashed banana, flax eggs, milk) and the grated or finely chopped bits of apple and mix with the dry ingredients, until all mixed together. 

Heat a pan with oil of choice (I used coconut oil) and make your pancakes one by one until all the mixture has been made. Feel free to reheat your poached apple too, and serve it all hot hot hot! 

I topped mine this morning with Mayvers Coconut Peanut Butter (about half a jar… at least), the rest of the banana, the poached apple and Blend Co sprinkle. But it would go with so many things! Coyo, berries, maple syrup, whipped coconut cream…. the options are limitless. 

Go crazy kittens!