ULTIMATE FLUFFY CHOCOLATE PANCAKES

Saturdays or rather lazy Saturdays were made for pancakes, chocolate pancakes! I love fluffy pancakes that literally melt in your mouth and these do exactly that.

RED VELVET PANCAKES - 7 DAYS OF RED VELVET

I'm listening to James Ingram as I write up this post. I love classic music escape especially the 80's and 90's R&B. The music was timeless, evoking emotions that you never knew you had. His songs remind me of being in love, puppy love. When you thought a certain boy was your world and the very essence of your being was him existing. I chuckle at the memories but I miss such kind of love, filled with innocence, pure bliss and devotion to being each other's only admiration. Love has changed, I think, it has become to some extent selfish, indulgence and "me me me" kind of expectations. Even R&B of nowadays is filled with too much vulgar language, swear words that you wonder are you being serenaded or being insulted? I did not mean to rant, I promise, maybe its all these memories bubbling to the top. Now back to reality, food reality. Today is the first of my 7 Days of Red Velvet series and what better way to start it off than with the most delicious, perfect and romantic breakfast of all time, pancakes! Red velvet pancakes! Wake him/her to the smell of this delicious treat and you will be on your way to having a perfect morning and the perfect rest of the day. Shall we?

COCONUT PEANUT BUTTER PANCAKES

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I love peanut and if I could I would eat it every other day. Whether it's whole roasted peanuts or smooth peanut butter, I just love this stuff! Reminds me of when we were young back in the 80's when peanut butter was a new thing and it was a reserve of the "wadosi" (rich folk), we would really envy those kids who came with bread slices smeared withe the peanut butter while we had plain toasts, seems ridiculous but when you are a kid in kindergarten you always think that the other kids have better lunches or tea break snacks. Then came this advert for the skippy peanut butter, we would always sing along to it and really bug mum about buying 'skippy peanut butter'. Well she gave in and bought us the peanut butter, what? You'd think we had won the lottery! Needless to say, after that it was a regular addition to our breakfast and we thoroughly enjoyed making the other kids jealous and even bribing them with 'if you don't let me in the game, I won't give you my skippy peanut butter bread', nice memories hehehe. To bring back those memories, I though I would make peanut butter pancakes and add more deliciousness by adding coconut. Those two flavours just work wonders on your pallet.

FUNFETTI SUNDAY BRUNCH PANCAKES

Happy Sunday Funday Lovelies! We are already halfway the first month of 2019 and it's exciting to  see how fast the days are going! I love Sundays! It is just one of those lazy days that you want breakfast in bed with some soothing music and yummy scents coming from the kitchen. Dreams are valid yo! If you are single like me, then you will just have to give yourself that breakfast in bed and enjoy it all by thyself, which is fun most times, especially when you have made yourself this decadent obsessively good apple cinnamon french toast and you absolutely  DO NOT want to share! Today I just woke up with a craving for some pancakes, I have several pancake recipes that you can find all over the blog, I needed something different. And since I was feeling festive and saw some rainbow sprinkles staring at me in the kitchen, I knew what I had to do. These funfetti pancakes are fluffy, pillowy and exciting to bite into! We all want to get fluffy pancakes so here are a few tips I have learnt in making pancakes. To get fluffy pancakes include baking powder or baking soda in pancake batter since this will create essential bubbles that are crucial in giving you that fluffy feel.  Eggs enable the batter to rise since they provide the pancakes with structure while butter not only adds flavor but give the pancakes moisture and a smooth richness. Do not over mix your pancake batter if you want fluffy pancakes and let you batter rest before using, you can even refrigerate for a few minutes before cooking. The best way to ensure your pancakes are fluffy is not using too much heat, since they will burn yet the middle in raw, if too low the pancakes will end up being tough and rubbery.

APPLE PIE SPICE PANCAKES WITH CHOCOLATE GLAZE

It's only one month till the end of the year drops by! I can't believe how much time has gone by. I have totally missed cooking and the first thing I thought to make were pancakes. You all know how much I love pancakes, which come a close second to crepes. I wanted to make something different today and so I remembered the homemade Apple Pie Spice Mix I made a while back.Great idea! The spice gives these pancakes that extra tasty and yummy feel. I love spices and anything with spices goes in my top list of dishes I like to indulge in.

FLUFFY EGGLESS CHOCOLATE PANCAKES

Chocolate for breakfast? Pancakes for dessert? I say heck yeeeah! It's the Weekend! And what are weekends meant for? Pancakes! It's a Pancakes necessity... cue Mowgli singing the 'bear necessity song' I love animations, they just bring out the child in you, carefree, full of dreams and fantasies... I miss that. I love pancakes and I cannot lie... you see where this is going... waking up with songs in your heart just means that the day is off to a great start. It being a weekend just makes it that much more fun. Chocolate and Pancakes, my two favorite things.These Eggless Chocolate Pancakes turned out so fluffy and light despite them looking so heavy. The trick is not to overbeat or overmix the batter. I ate 3! Just had to put it out there . This is a desert or is it breakfast that I will be making again and again, and not just for the weekend. Hey, who said you cannot have dessert for breakfast or breakfast for dinner? Break some rules, it's a lovely life, whip it whip it whip it real good...okay I need to stop with the random music...haha! Here's my other Chocolate Pancakes recipe or you can opt for this Sugar free Blueberries Pancakes. Anyway cheers to the weekend y'all!!

CHOCOLATE PANCAKES FOR BREAKFAST

I can still taste those fluffy almost melt in your mouth Chocolate Pancakes. Yum! I never though anything could be this delicious! I can't stop raving about these Chocolate Pancakes, and when you make them you will not stop either. I give you my word! I'm a Chocoholic so anything with Chocolate I will be biased and choose it every time. Pancakes are just the best way to wake up to breakfast, so imagine adding Chocolate, do I have chocolate lovers in the house? I wanted to make something unique so I chose to give my pancakes a different shape from the round ones. I had heart shaped cookie cutters that I always knew would come in handy.They just give that perfect presentation and an evenly layered stack of Pancakes. If you want a deeper Chocolate flavour add Chocolate chips to the pancake batter. I just used regular Cocoa powder but will definitely add Chocolate Chips next time. This recipe is Breakfast and dessert rolled into one! Okay enough 'sed' lets do this! 😊😆

SUGAR FREE BLUE BERRY PANCAKES

How's Sugar Free Blue Berry Pancakes for breakfast sound like? Breakfast is the meal that determines how the rest of your day will go and end. And what better way to begin the day than with fluffy, healthy delicious Sugar Free Blue Berry Pancakes? I love that they are file with Fresh, fleshy Blue Berries that just melt in your mouth when you bite into them. Blue Berries are nutritious, as they are loaded with antioxidants. They are low in fat, high in fibre and best of all, they have no Sodium, Refined Starches or even added Sugar. Blueberries protect your body from being damaged by free radicals that can damage your cells.Enough about the health benefits of Blue Berries, add them to your Pancake Batter and you have elevated your breakfast from boring to super Delicious. These Sugar Free Blue Berry Pancakes go great with cinnamon ginger infused tea or with a drink of your choice. Drizzle with Honey, Syrup, top up with Whipped Cream,or a fruit of your choice. Easy to make and lovely to eat, Pancakes have never tasted better than this.