Healthy Pancakes

I discovered this delectable little treat about six months ago and have been feasting on it WITHOUT guilt ever since. Ladies, pancakes do not have to be high calorie or bad for you! I promise.

This recipe is enough for one lovely portion...

• 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
• 3 egg whites
• 1/4 cup milk (I use low calorie vanilla Almond Breeze)
• pinch salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 packet splenda (not needed, I like all things sweet)
• 1 banana, sliced

Add all of these ingredients into a blender and mix till smooth. The batter will be quite runny. Out of this I can make roughly 5 mini cakes or 3 pretty decent cakes. I just heat my largest pan up on medium heat. Once it's nice and hot I spray it with Pam and pour the batter on. They only take a few minutes on each side. Then I top them with low calorie, low sugar syrup. YUMMY!

For those of you on Weight Watchers, the basic pancake recipe above is 5 points with 1 serving of the low calorie syrup. This excludes any fresh fruit topping or any of my other suggestions below.

Now for the FUN part. VARIATIONS! You can also spice up the recipe by adding any one of the following either into the blender or stirred in at the end before you pour the mix into the pan. OR a lovely topping.

• 1/4 cottage fat free cheese (into the blender)
• Berries (Either into the blender or mixed in last, or both)
• Frozen fruit cooked in OJ and splenda (for a nice topping)
• Fresh apples or pears cooked with splenda & cinnamon (for a nice topping)
• 1/4 cup pumpkin puree (Into the blender, this makes it super moist!)
• Cocoa powder (into the blender for a chocolaty treat)
• Chocolate chips (mixed in last)
• Any sort of nuts (mixed in last)
• Coconut flakes (mixed in last, one of my favorites)
• Protein Powder (into the blender for a little protein KICK)

The list could go on and on. Basically toss in what ever you like and experiment. The combination of possibilities are endless. :)

Original Recipe...

With sauteed fruit...

With Pumpkin Puree....

With Blueberries...