March 29, 2006 Update:
This recipe is now featured in And They Cook, Too a bloggers’ fundraising coobook for Doctors Without Borders!
Own it now in handy, spiral-bound format!
- Whisk together 2 tbsp oil, 2 tbsp maple syrup and 1 tsp vanilla.
- Add 1/4 cup peanut butter, whisk until smooth.
- Slowly add 1 cup soy milk, a little bit at a time.
- Add 1 cup whole wheat flour and 2 tsp baking powder, being very careful not to let the baking powder clump together because if it does it will taste like biting on foil. (If you want to combine them seperately in another bowl, then incorporate into wet, go ahead. My way is a little sensitive, but it saves me washing a bowl.) Stir until just mixed.
- Take out a non-stick pan and preheat to med-high.
- Take out a banana, peel, cut lengthwise, then slice as you would normally slice a banana into cereal or whatever. (we want half rounds, whole rounds would be too big.)
- Add banana to batter, but not with a whisk. No one really wants ill-defined banana shapes stuck in her whisk. In fact, what you can use to stir is the 1/4 cup measuring cup that you’re going to use again in a moment.
- Test the pan by dropping in a few drops of water. If they sizzle and dance, it’s hot enough. If not, repeatedly hum to yourself the six bars of that one song you can’t get out of your head and don’t even like, but it’s stuck there because you don’t know enough of the song to be able to hum the rest and get it out of there. OK, now test again. It’s probably ready.
- Spoon batter into pan using 1/4 cup measuring cup.
- Cook until bubbles form, then pop on the surface, and bottom side is golden brown. Flip. Cook until other side is also golden-brown.
- Do you notice how there’s no instruction in here about taking your pancake flipper and using it to squish down your pancakes with all your strength? That’s because PANCAKES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LIGHT AND FLUFFY. Also, squished banana would be really gross in this recipe. So don’t do it! They’re flat enough already. Just leave well enough alone.
- Serve. I like them plain, with nothing, but I might be a freak. My mom liked them with margarine and maple syrup. Go nuts.
