As some of you might know, Floris and I are the proud parents of a 3-year-old son named Jamie. Like many toddlers, Jamie can be really picky when it comes to food. I guess you just have to accept this, because that’s what toddlers do. That being said, I always try to give him healthy and nutritional food options he will enjoy. Fruit and veggies are not a big problem, he’s eating an OK selection and amount. Don’t even bother talking about carbs. If he could decide what to eat all day, it would be bread, rice & pasta. No sauce, just plain carbs. On the protein side…now that’s a though one. He doesn’t like meat, fish or eggs. But since protein is so important for a growing human being, I thought about some hidden ingredient recipes, like a healthy bolognese (he loves that) and something that has eggs hidden inside.

Then I read about Alana’s 2 ingredient pancake (egg & bananas) and thought: This is it. How can he not like this, especially since he’s almost addicted to bananas. So I tried them but I wanted something more filling, since it was going to be breakfast for him. That’s how I came up with this pancake recipe and with success, Jamie is eating them every morning and what is even more fun: we bake and make them together.

I always make a batch for the whole week on Saturday and simply freeze the pancakes. I then heat a portion everyday on the contact grill and Jamie has a nice & healthy start to the day. He loves them with plain butter or with almond butter, or topped with some frozen (yes he likes everything frozen now, because he thinks it’s ice cream) strawberries. You can add any kind of fruit and bam! you feel like a kick-ass mom.

Ingredients
– 6 Organic Eggs
– 3 Ripe medium bananas (the riper, the better >>> a sweeter outcome)
– Spelt Wholegrain Flour (other wholegrain flour works too) 5-6 tablespoons, you can feel out how much you’ll need…
– Pinch of Salt
– Pinch of Baking Powder
– Pinch of Natron (if you don’t have this at home, they also taste fine without)
– Pinch of Cinnamon
– 2-3 Tablespoons of Organic Yogurt (full fat or half fat)
– Optional > cocoa powder, shredded cocos, flax seed (crushed)

Instructions

In a big bowl, whisk the eggs with a hand mixer.
Mash the banana’s with a fork and add them to the egg mixture.

Add a splash of Yogurt and stir.
Add the Spelt Flour. I don’t really measure, I just add tablespoon by tablespoon and stir until I have the proper consistency. Add a pinch of salt, a pinch of baking powder, natron, some cinnamon and any other optional ingredients. Give it another good stir with the hand mixer.
The consistency should be like full fat yoghurt, not too runny not too thick.

Now heat the coconut oil in a frying pan & add a tablespoon of the mixture to create round little pancakes. I can fit fit about 4 or 5 round pancakes in my frying pan at once.

We own an induction stove and it can go from 1-10. To give you a feeling on which heat to bake them, we’ll fry them at 5/6.
You can flip them carefully when they are nicely brown on one side and there you go, you’re first batch. The first one always turns out a bit silly, but they still taste delicious.

Tip: Always try one pancake from your first batch before baking a new round, sometimes it needs more flour, salt or well something 🙂

Tip 2: I sometimes add a drip of maple syrup… yummmm

Let me know what you think and if you have any recipe suggestions for picky toddlers, please share them with us.

Happy cooking!

Love,

Ingy