Recipe #58: Chocolate-Coconut Whole Wheat Pancakes

Last night was another "breakfast for dinner" night at our house. I grew up with my mom making delicious pancakes for us on a regular basis, however, on special occasions, like birthdays, we could choose chocolate chip pancakes. Once I grew up I realized that I didn't have to wait for a special occasion to eat chocolate chip pancakes, and so now it is fun to add that to the normal mix if Will and I feel like something sweet!

Here is my mom's whole wheat pancake recipe. If you are feeding a family use the full recipe. I used the half recipe for will and I but we had some left over. The fourth would have probably been best for two people.

	Full Recipe	Half Recipe	Fourth
Flour ( ½ white, ½ wheat)	4 cups	2 cups	1 cup
Sugar	4 Tbsp	2 Tbsp	1 Tbsp
Baking powder	4 tsp	2 tsp	1 tsp
Baking soda	2 tsp	1 tsp	½ tsp
Salt	2 tsp	1 tsp	½ tsp
Oil	8 Tbsp	4 Tbsp	2 Tbsp
Milk	4 cups	2 cups	1 cup
Eggs	4	2	1

So choose your measurements and mix them up. I have an electric fry pan or a griddle as well that I use and I set it to about 300 to heat up. You can do it on the stove as well.
Get your chocolate chips ready or any other ingredients you want to put in.*
I use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to pour the pancake batter into the heated pan.
Immediately sprinkle your "add-ins" onto the pancake.
Wait for it to start bubbling a bit before you turn it over.
After a couple minutes take it off the heat!

You can also mix up the full batch of dry ingredients

*some other great add-ins are: chocolate chips, coconut, blueberries, mashed bananas and nuts...
With the sweet pancakes we like to add powdered sugar on top instead of syrup so the syrup doesn't overtake the chocolate taste etc...

This was the first time I had used coconut with the chocolate chips and it was AMAZING!