Inspired by a post I saw by Super Healthy Kids, I decided to make my kids pink pancakes for breakfast this morning! The trick to the pink color is the use of beet puree!
To eliminate some of the work in the morning, I cooked and pureed the beets the day before, as suggested by the post Power-Puff-Pancakes. I cooked up 3 beets and put 2/3 of the puree in the freezer for another time, keeping 1/3 of it for my pancakes in the morning. That way, when I go to make these again, I don’t have to worry about the pink part – that’s already done!
For the pancakes, I used the recipe that I provide on my Kid/Spouse Friendly Recipe Page, but will post the exact ingredients I used for this batch here, as the one on the recipe page allows for you to make your own substitutions.
Chock Full of Goodness Pancakes (my wheat free version)
It just so happens that a neighbor stopped by to help my husband while we were eating these. I offered him one and he couldn’t get enough! I am talking about a man who admitted to me that the only other pancakes he has ever liked are IHOP pancakes. He was pleasantly surprised to find out just how healthy these are!
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups flour – I use 3/4 cups oat flour, 3/4 cup brown rice flour. In addition, today I also added 1/4 cup almond flour.
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder (I use aluminum free)
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 1/4 cups rice milk – I used rice milk using it’s sweetness to replace the 1 tbsp of sugar that is typically found in pancake recipes
1 egg
3 tablespoons melted butter
1 1/2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
1/2 cup ground pecans or walnuts (optional)
pink beet puree – approx. 1/4 cup
Directions: In a large bowl mix your combination of flours together with the baking powder, salt, sugar and flaxseed. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk, egg and melted butter. Mix until smooth. Add nuts and stir. Add beet puree and stir. Cook pancakes on oiled (I use coconut oil), non-stick griddle(after all, do you really want the added chemicals of the non stick pans?). I make the pancakes relatively small, as I find they hold together better that way. When cooked garnish with REAL maple syrup – no artificial syrup allowed 
If you so desire, you can use cookie cutters to shape these for special occasions – like hearts for Valentine’s Day and Easter eggs for Easter!
These look awesome! Is there any way I can make it without the egg? Substitute something else instead? My son is dairy, egg, and gluten free. I would live to try making these.
I honestly don’t know! If you find a pancake recipe that works for you, you can just add the beet puree in!
You might try EnerG egg replacer. I have used that in my pancakes, cakes, black bean burgers, all with great success. The only major issue I’ve had using that egg replacer is when making sugar cookies. They came out fine, but the dough was a little crumbly and harder to work with, but like I said, the end result was still great.
Your pancakes turned out great!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
yay!
Yaaay for REAL Maple Syrup!
Thank you SO much for everything!!!
PS- I made the beet pancakes and they were a hit.I can’t believe it… I would have never thought about putting beets into my food.. and here I am putting it in my pancakes and usng it to color frosting! 😉
awesome! GM is genetically modified
WHere do you find all of those flours… I didn’t see them at Trader Joe’s last time I looked. Are they a lot more expensive than regular flour? Also… do you know where I can find info on why babies can’t digest wheat? I tried looking for studies but didn’t get too far! I am torn over what foods to try next with my 7 month old. Thanks!!!
for 7 months I would stick with the veggies and fruits for a couple more months. I have found these flowers in the ‘health’ aisle of Stop and Shop and also at my local health food store – I haven’t seen them at Trader Joe’s either. I think it depends on the type of flour as far as price. Bob’s Red Mill makes them as well as Arrowhead Mills – may be cheaper to order online, esp. if you can get them through amazon subscribe and save – haven’t checked there yet. As far as the digesting wheat info – I will get back to you with links over the next couple of days – please remind me if I forget!
I think it’s more GM wheat that babies can’t digest. No one had trouble digesting wheat before GM wheat came onto the scene. Just like milk intolerance was never heard of until they began to homogenize dairy products. GM products change the structure of the DNA in both plants and animals. The genetic code of offspring is being altered before the *offspring* is even born. 🙁
Can you please tell me what GM wheat is? (what GM stands for!) 🙂 Thanks!