Easy Chocolate Oatmeal Pancakes with Chocolate Sauce and Chocolate Whipped Cream
On those cold, rainy, weekend mornings, whip up a stack of these 8-ingredient, gluten-free, Easy Chocolate Oatmeal Pancakes with Chocolate Sauce and Chocolate Whipped Cream, and pair them with cups of steaming coffee, while indulging in yet another Netflix marathon!
You’ve heard the saying “April showers bring May flowers” right?
Well, y’all, it’s been showering here in Northeast-ish Georgia through most of February and March and those May flowers have already started blooming – in March!
With azaleas in all their vibrant glory, blooming trees in all shades of green, and wisteria that seems to grow in the most hopeless of areas, spring has always been the most colorful season for me. And, those colors seem to pop even more so on grey, drizzly days, like today.
Last year when my daughter and I were hiking through Short Sands Trail near The Oregon coast with a group of new friends, I was overjoyed to find out that I wasn’t the only one who thought so when a chap in the group pointed out how a gray, drizzly day really makes the colors around pop. Reds are redder, greens are greener, and blues are just more mesmerizing.
But, unfortunately, it’s hard for me to echo my sentiments of the outdoors, while I am indoors. That sounded confusing – right?
What I was trying to say is that while I like a gray-drizzly day while I am out in it, I tend to want to sit around and wallow when I’m inside my home. And, I’m not a fan of wallowing.
So, I chose to make something chocolatey (like this stack of Easy Chocolate Oatmeal Pancakes) as rumor has it that chocolate is an antidepressant! Chocolate = a ray of sunshine indoors, for dramatic souls like my daughter and I. Right now I’m so glad I gave up on giving up chocolate for lent!
This stack of Chocolate Oatmeal Pancakes are so easy to make. Just eight simple ingredients that you probably have lying around your kitchen, such as:
rolled oats,
baking powder,
salt,
milk of your choice,
eggs,
cocoa,
and brewed Life Extension® Rainforest Blend coffee.
Just a little Life Extension® Rainforest Blend coffee in the pancakes as well as the chocolate sauce seems to multiply that chocolate flavor I cannot seem to get enough of.
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Getting back to these Easy Chocolate Oatmeal Pancakes, they are very similar to these Easy Oatmeal Pancakes I reshared on here recently.
The chocolate sauce that accompanies them is simply chocolate chips melted together with a splash of dairy free milk and brewed Life Extension® Rainforest Blend coffee. And the whipped cream is dairy free whipped cream mixed with cocoa and a sprinkling of sugar.
We threw in some strawberries too and ended up dipping them in the leftover chocolate coffee sauce. I have a confession to make, my daughter and I couldn’t finish this stack of 8 pancakes by ourselves.
So, we ended up storing these Easy Chocolate Oatmeal Pancakes in the fridge in an airtight container and enjoying them for breakfast over the next couple of days!
Ingredients
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1/4 cup cocoa
- 2 tbsps baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup brewed Life Extension® Rainforest Blend Coffee
- 1.5 cups almond milk or milk of your choice
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp sugar optional
Instructions
- Place oats in blender and blend till flour-like, then add to a bowl. Also add in the cocoa, baking powder and salt to the bowl and mix well. Then add in the vanilla, coffee, sugar (optional), almond milk and eggs and mix well. Let sit for 5 minutes to thicken. While waiting, place a pan over a low-medium flame and let it warm.
- When pancake mixture is thickened, grease pan with vegan butter and ladle 2-3 tablespoonfuls of mix onto pan, and cook 2-3 minutes on each side.
- Serve pancakes with fruit, chocolate sauce* and chocolate whipped cream** and a steaming mug of Life Extension® Rainforest Blend Coffee!
- *The chocolate sauce is made with a handful of semi sweet chocolate chips, a tablespoon or two of brewed Life Extension® Rainforest Blend Coffee and a splash of milk.
- **The chocolate whipped cream is made with a couple of teaspoons of cocoa, a couple of teaspoons of sugar and dairy free whipped cream blended together.
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These pancakes look so tempting with chocolate sauce!
Wow, these look amazing!!
I love the addition of coffee to the pancakes, it totally brings out so much flavor!
these look delicious! gimme ALL the chocolate
You have turned pancakes on their ear with this one. So many great flavors — the chocolate and coffee are such a great pairing and oatmeal is hearty and ideal in this preparation. Ingenius.
My son has given up chocolate for lent too!!!
He suggested I give up coffee but I laughed at that one 😉
These chocolate pancakes sound fabulous! They will be perfect for Easter Sunday when he can eat chocolate again!
Chocolate and Oatmeal AND Pancakes? Wonderful combo! These sound SO good — thanks!
My hubby would always say NO to sweets but he is game for any sweets with chocolate. He would never say no to it. Hahaha
I think I will try this recipe one day for my hubby. 🙂
As a coffee lover and a chocolate lover these easy chocolate oatmeal pancakes paired together with that LifeExtension Coffee are perfect to me! Also, I’m glad you’re getting some signs of Spring there, but perhaps you could send it our way too? It’s still freezing here and STILL threatening more snow!
I totally know what you mean about colors popping out more vivid against rainy, grey skies. Laura has commented that everything appears greener after a rain. I bet it has something to do with the way light refracts in humid air? I might have to look into that! But first, pancakes. And what a genius idea to put coffee in your pancakes…with chocolate! I’m usually a coffee in the mug and pancake on the plate kinda guy…but I’ve got to go rethink this one now. That LifeExtension coffee sounds delicious! We’ve been searching for a new coffee lately, so I might have to give them a try! Also, I’m really jealous about your azaleas right now. I see about 18″ of snow out of my window…
No flowers blooming here yet…well, aside from our orchids inside! I have 4 little ones and they are all blooming and oh so pretty 🙂 This is one delicious stack o pancakes, my friend! Talk about over the top delish! Love that there’s actual coffee in the pancakes…bet it pairs beautiful with the cocoa! I can see myself sitting down on Saturday morning with a huge stack and lot and lots of coffee besides what’s in those pancakes 😉 Have a wonderful weekend! XOXO
I made this today, but I used flax eggs instead of chicken eggs and used pudding powder in place of coffee. Turned out delicious! The only thing I would like to improve is the fluffiness as it was fairly dense, which it seems most of my made-from-scratch breads/cakes are. Any (vegan) suggestions?