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Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes With Blueberries

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The greatest gluten-free vegan pancakes you will ever make. Chocolate zucchini pancakes with blueberries are a weekend essential perfected for weekend breakfast bliss. Your anticipation for weekend mornings now has more than a valid reason!

Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes With Blueberries | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The greatest gluten-free vegan pancakes you will ever make. Chocolate zucchini pancakes with blueberries are a weekend essential perfected for weekend breakfast bliss.

These pancakes. I should probably stop right here, leave you swooning over that stack, and not reveal my secrets. But then…what kind of food blogger would I be? A mean one, but a mean one with a damn good secret pancake recipe! I’ve debated for months on what to even call these cakes, but with the help of a good, trusted friend, we settled on Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes with Blueberries! (Since I have another “base” version that’s sans blueberries). I could have called these: The Greatest Gluten-Free Pancakes Ever or The Best Pancakes With All My Favorite Things. The last one isn’t really true though since these cakes don’t contain potatoes, apples, or cashews…these have more second tier favorites, but favorites nonetheless!

Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes With Blueberries | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The greatest gluten-free vegan pancakes you will ever make. Chocolate zucchini pancakes with blueberries are a weekend essential perfected for weekend breakfast bliss.

Actually, as I’m writing this, it’s a muggy Saturday morning and I’m currently sipping a cup of coffee after eating these exact pancakes (sans blueberries, but with blueberry syrup…). But when I tell you these are perfected weekend breakfast bliss on a plate, I mean it! I’ve been making these pancakes every weekend for the last 4 to 5 months. That’s, well let’s just ballpark it around 60-70 times. Am I obsessed? Yes. Will I ever get sick of these? No. Do you want the recipe? Well I hope so!

Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes With Blueberries | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The greatest gluten-free vegan pancakes you will ever make. Chocolate zucchini pancakes with blueberries are a weekend essential perfected for weekend breakfast bliss.

They consist of cocoa powder, banana flour, buckwheat flour grated zucchini, and of course blueberries. This combo makes the best texture for gluten-free vegan pancakes. When you use a fruit puree like applesauce or pumpkin, the pancakes can tend to be a bit too soft, gummy, kinda lacking. But when you use zucchini, you have a little texture and bulk, the banana flour is the perfect absorbent and you get more batter for your buck without using more flour, the buckwheat just tastes amazing and holds it all together, and the cocoa powder is the subtle deep undertone of love and light expansion the pancakes need. But to add a bit of pop and fun, throw in some blueberries and you get your pure perfect bliss on a plate! Soft, thick, fluffy, crisp, everything you want in 2 large pancakes for one!

Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes With Blueberries | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The greatest gluten-free vegan pancakes you will ever make. Chocolate zucchini pancakes with blueberries are a weekend essential perfected for weekend breakfast bliss.

If I don’t have these pancakes on the weekend I feel like I’ve missed out…big time. They are just beyond words for me. I go to bed Friday night looking forward to this morning ritual (and then again Saturday night). Wake-up, do yoga, go down to the kitchen, turn on the radio to some terrible “Today’s Top Music” countdown, gather my ingredients for the pancakes, make it all in less than 3 minutes, cooking the cakes on the stove while simultaneously cleaning the kitchen a bit, savoring the early morning, plating my cakes when they’re done, drowning them in syrups, heading back to my room and savoring that first bite. O the glory! When you find your absolute favorite breakfast, you know. I know that these cakes are mine.

Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes With Blueberries | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The greatest gluten-free vegan pancakes you will ever make. Chocolate zucchini pancakes with blueberries are a weekend essential perfected for weekend breakfast bliss.

I do confess, when I finally decided to write down the recipe for these pancakes, it was a bit of a struggle. I know this “combo” by heart and I don’t really measure things. I tried to be as accurate as possible though since I want you to have the same perfect pancakes bliss as I. If you think gluten-free vegan pancakes are terrible or just haven’t found a good recipe, I want you to try these. This is a single-serve recipe as that’s how I roll with all my pancakes, but you could always mix up another batch of batter when the first batch is cooking. Yes, you also need a good non-stick pan and banana flour, but that’s nothing amazon can’t solve! But it’s worth it, I promise. Like I said, a little banana flour goes a long way since you use less flour, but more liquid and thus more batter. And hey, you could also make these pancakes and these muffins with that same flour 😉

Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes with Blueberries

Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes With Blueberries | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The greatest gluten-free vegan pancakes you will ever make. Chocolate zucchini pancakes with blueberries are a weekend essential perfected for weekend breakfast bliss.

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Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes With Blueberries

The greatest gluten-free vegan pancakes you will ever make. Chocolate zucchini pancakes with blueberries are a weekend essential perfected for weekend breakfast bliss.

  • Author: Rebecca Pytell
  • Yield: 1 1x
  • Category: Breakfast, Pancakes
  • Cuisine: American
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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. In a small bowl, combine your grated zucchini, flours* (see notes below), cinnamon, and extract. Give it a quick stir.
  2. Add the water next. Start with 1/3 cup and then slowly add more tablespoons of water until you get a batter that is thick, but pourable and not too watery.
  3. Grease a non-stick pan with coconut oil and allow to heat up over medium heat on the stove.
  4. Pour half the batter on the pan, add 1 tablespoon of blueberries to that pancake, and allow to cook for about 2-3 minutes. Flip and cook another 2 minutes. Repeat same process with the rest of the batter and last tablespoon of blueberries.
  5. Plate your cakes and top with syrups of choice and additional blueberries if desired!

Notes

To measure my flour mixture, I take out a 1/3 measuring cup, add the cocoa powder in the bottom, next layer is the banana flour, and finally I top what ever room is left with the buckwheat flour. So I do not measure tablespoons here, but eye ball it. The layer of banana flour should be most prominent.

 Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes With Blueberries | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The greatest gluten-free vegan pancakes you will ever make. Chocolate zucchini pancakes with blueberries are a weekend essential perfected for weekend breakfast bliss.

Now, I know it’s Monday, but this gives you the whole week to gather everything you need to make these pancakes. Promise me you will! Top them however you like, but a sweet syrup is best 😉 Before you bite in, snap a picture, then after you come out of your pancake coma of bliss, post that picture on instagram or twitter and tag me @RebeccaGF666! I want to see these cakes!

So tell me:

+ What’s one breakfast you will never get sick of?

+ How do you top you cakes?

*Recipe linking up for the week! Allergy Free Wednesdays, #RecipeOfTheWeek,#StrangeButGood, Real Food Friday, Gluten-Free Fridays, Tasty Tuesdays, Savoring Saturdays, Healthy Vegan Fridays, Tasty Tuesdays, Lena’s Tasty Tuesdays, Meatless Mondays, Waste Not Want Not!*


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Comments

  4. Sam // DIY Just Cuz says

    Wow! These look (and sound) absolutely delicious – hell they must be if you’ve made them so many times. How are you not sick of them yet? :p I always get worried cooking with zuchinni since I tried to make zuchinni bread and it didn’t turn out so good. These look so yummy and sound so healthy though I might just have to try them.

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  7. Of Goats and Greens says

    These look great, and not overly sweet – I’d probably add a scant teaspoon of real maple syrup — I love a hint of the flavor without all the sweetness, and this is New England, after all… 😉 Adding to my to-try list!

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  8. Stef says

    Chocolate, yum! Zucchini, yum! Pancakes, yum! Blueberries, yum! Combination… LOVE IT 🙂 Plus the pictures are awesome I want some for breakfast 🙂

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  19. Cat says

    I love the tip about how you measure your flour out! I sometimes get a bit overwhelmed when I see specific tbsp measurements and exotic flour mixes, but if I see it as a 1/3 cup it makes me feel like I can actually make these and not mess up! So I think I shall 😉

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Yea! Haha! No one has time to measure it out like that anyway 😛 I really do just eye ball it all in a 1/3 measuring cup! Just 3 layers of goodness. The cocoa powder first, then banana flour (which seems to be the “thickest” layer, and then top it off with buckwheat!

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  25. Kaila (GF Life 24/7) says

    These look amazing! Thanks for sharing!! I love how the flavors you chose are two of my favorites as well- chocolate and blueberries. We use zucchini a lot in our house, and I’m sure it works beautifully here. Happy FF, and have a wonderful weekend!

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  28. Alanna says

    Thanks for reminding me that I need to start using buckwheat flour more often! Zucchini anything, especially in pancake form, I am all about it! I’m also so intrigued by banana flour…

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Banana flour and banana extract are my favorite banana goodies 😉 Kinda the only way I ever eat “banana”!

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  41. kimmythevegan says

    “The Greatest Gluten-Free Pancakes Ever or The Best Pancakes With All My Favorite Things.”
    Way better title hahaha =D These sounds amazing! You have outdone yourself yet again. I can’t wait to try making these. They sound delicious. Sugar free maple syrup? Doesn’t that take all the fun out of it? ;p

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  44. Melissa @ vegan does it says

    We’re thinking alike my friend, I just posted a chocolate pancake too! Pancakes are my favorite food for sure and I love trying out different flavors. Banana flour is a new one for me. I’m intrigued. Does it have a banana-y flavor? Your pics look beautiful too!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      ZERO flavor!!! It’s just so wonderful though! It’s such a great flour to use in vegan/GF baked goods since it holds everything together and you use less, but more liquid, but it doesn’t make things “sad” and gooey like just a fruit puree like actual banana or applesauce!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      I know!!! I do 100% eat it every day, no lie and always buy more at the store every week, never without at least 3 or 5 in the fridge!
      I just never have a reason NOT to add it in!

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  47. Clare Speer says

    Wow – these look amazing – I’m not a fan of blueberries but this is so inviting! How about I eat some of the chocolate pancakes without the blueberries – they look good! 🙂

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  51. Audrey @ Unconventional Baker says

    Breakfast I never get sick of: NANA ICE CREAM <3 {and anything fruity, for that matter}.

    Love these pancakes — they sound amazing! I just shared a quick pancakes recipe I love too, but these sound like an amazing change, especially with all that banana-y-ness going on in there 🙂

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  53. Kathy | Mom Learns To Cook says

    The hubby and I make pancakes every weekend for the boys. I know they’d get crazy excited if I put chocolate blueberry pancakes in front of them. They’d never need to know the pancakes contained zucchini and are vegan/gluten-free. It’s a win/win!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Yea! You could please anyone with these; there’s nothing not to love!!! Healthy, delicious, perfection 😉

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  55. Laura says

    Oh my golly. There’s so many great ingredients in these I just don’t know where to start. They look awesome:) I love that we’re both on the Bourbon Vanilla train of thought . . . definitely a win!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      I think it’s funny that you didn’t know what bourbon vanilla was! Anything else is like…imitation!

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  59. Harriet Emily says

    Mmmm, this is one dreamy recipe Rebecca! I adore chocolate pancakes, and this healthy zucchini version sounds so perfect!!!! I definitely need to make them for my breakfast tomorrow! So delicious <3

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Thank you!
      Haha….well I should really try eating sweet potatoes for breakfast some time 😛 I’m surprised I don’t!

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      • Gloria says

        Sounds amazing. Vegan baking often recommends bananas as a substitute and I often put a fresh one in some baking… but this is a pretty awesome alternative! So nice to see something other than a nut flour in use!

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  70. Angela @ Eat Spin Run Repeat says

    Oh my gosh, these are beautiful! As a kid I barely knew what zucchinis were, and I definitely didn’t use them in baking because I never thought of them as anything more than a veggie that was meant to be savoury. (And no, I had no idea what zucchini bread was!) I love the idea of using them in pancakes and I bet they add a ton of moisture. Can’t wait to try these!

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  79. Natalie | Feasting on Fruit says

    With chocolate and zuc,
    there’s no need to nuke,
    these pancakes are done in three.

    With blueberries on top,
    and syrup by the giant glop,
    these pancakes bring morning glee.

    Oh and “A sweet syrup is best”??? Sweet syrup is mandatory!!!!! That’s what makes weekend pancake breakfast so perfect: it’s dessert at 10 for me, 7 for you AM!! <3

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