Amazing Almond Flour Pancakes (and A Great Phone App)

I have been making these almond flour pancakes for awhile for my family.  I was eating them so made them without egg but I am in a research trial right now and am pretty limited on what I can eat so I made them with the egg for my family this last weekend.  They were wonderful (or so they tell me!)  I found them through a cool iphone application called Cook it Allergy Free  They also have a web site but  I have not explored it.  With the application you can take one of their recipes which do start out gluten free for the most part and substitute the other common allergen ingredients such as dairy, egg, nuts etc.  They give you several options for each ingredient.  Once you get the recipe to how you like it you can save it to your recipe box. 

The name of these in the app is Almond Chocolate Chip Pancakes.  I do not put the chocolate chips in mine so they are just:

Almond Flour Pancakes
makes about 10 good sized pancakes

1 1/4 cups almond flour
2 Tbsp coconut flour
3 Tbsp sugar (I use palm sugar)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
4 eggs,  separated  (when I eat them I use the flax gel substitute)***
1/2 cup milk (we use almond milk)
4 Tbsp butter, melted (we use coconut oil, measured in liquid form)
2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup chocolate chips (we omit)

Combine almond flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt in large bowl.

In another bowl whisk together egg yolks, milk, butter, and vanilla.

Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.

In smaller bowl, beat egg whites until just beginning to get peaks, using electric hand mixer.

Gently fold into pancake batter until whites are incorporated.

Ladle onto preheated and greased pancake griddle,

Sprinkle a few chocolate chips onto the top of each pancake before flipping.  (you could also put blueberries or some other topping on them)

Cook about 3-4 minutes per side, depending on griddle, or until edges bubble.  I do leave mine for 3 minutes on each side or they are not cooked through.  I put my griddle on 350 degrees.

We love to eat ours with peanut butter and real maple syrup or jam.  To me, they are good enough to eat plain! 

Be sure and check out the post below this one as it is new as well!

*** Flax gel - for each egg combine 1 Tbsp flax meal and 3 Tbsp HOT water.  Let it stand for about ten minutes until it forms a gel.  The pancakes will not be as light and fluffy obviously but still yummy!

Almond Bars

One of my favorite gluten free blogs is Elana's Pantry.  She uses almond flour as her base for most of her recipes.  (see the link on our sidebar for our source for almond flour) My sister made this recipe for Almond Power Bars a couple weeks ago and they are soooo yummy.  I made them this week for our family and our small group.  They are a big hit and really good for you as well.  You can eat them without to much guilt.  Her recipe calls for agave and stevia but I did not use the stevia in mine and they were really good.  I made a double batch (1 at a time in the food processor) and put them in a 9x13 pan.  They were a little thick so probably would not do it that way again.