Banana and Vanilla Custard Egg White Protein Pancakes

Does it ever happen to you that you think about something and suddenly you're humming a tune loosely related to what you were thinking about? What happened here was that, as soon as I decided to make these 'dollar pancake sized,' I started humming Money, Money, Money. Honestly, is there a worst song to have stuck in one's head this early in the morn? I'm trying everything to get rid of it but I keep going back to "...must be funny, in a rich man's world." Ahhhh, hjälp  mig! hehe :-) But anyways, this is neither here not there. Let me give you a recipe, this recipe. It was born out of a desire to breathe some life into this new acquisition: Vanilla Custard Egg White Powder - a tricky powder to command that I've been experimenting with lately.

Ingredients - blended together and fried on a nonstick further nonsticked with a couple tsps of coconut oil:

1/4 cup  of Vanilla Custard Egg White Powder

1 cup of milk (I used cow's semi-skimmed but almond or coconut would work a treat and keep this dairyless)

3/4 cup of rolled oats

1/4 cup of coconut flour

1 medium frozen banana (or fresh I reckon) 

How were they? DELICIOUS! I am so impressed at this actually because I didn't know what to expect from the powder given that, the first time I tried making pancakes with it, it was kind of a disaster. The trick though, I learnt, is to add enough liquid to the whites so as to 'reconstitute them' properly and BOOM: you're set! They ended up TASTING of vanilla custard, moist, sweet, and delicious - with none of the hm-hm associated with drinking egg white protein powder solo. Oh, la la, this is fantastic news because, now, a new player has been brought into the game of protein pancakes, giving the rest of the powders a run for their money... nooooooooooo!!!!!!

The above yields nine dollar pancakes which, trust me, are a LOT so I think dividing it into two or even three servings is pretty reasonable. If you wanted to go for the kill though and eat ALL of them, you'd end up with the following macros (per 9): 822kcals richer, with 56g of protein, 96g of carbs (43g sugars), 20g of fat , (11g sat) and 18g of fiber.

Rooibos Vanilla and Apple Protein Cake

Rooibos Vanilla is a mellow, slightly caramelish, subtly sweet, and absolutely delicious tea that makes my tastebuds sing and my heart go boom boom boom with delight. Rooibos - or Red Bush - hails from South Africa, delivering in a tea cup a punch of deliciousness alongside a wealth of health-benefits (check this, this and this out). Since Rooibos - together with vanilla - is one of my favorite teas, I wanted to honor it by turning it into a cake (as one does). I was originally just going to make a Rooibos and Vanilla protein sponge cake but, when I walked into the kitchen this morning, I noticed several apples looking friendly and thought that since apples + vanilla = YES and rooibos + vanilla = YES, apples + rooibos + vanilla = HELL YEAH!

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Red Pepper Protein Bread Mini Loaves

As you can see in the picture here to the left, all you need are four ingredients: 1) liquid egg whites, 2) quinoa flakes (or buckwheat flakes, or millet flakes, or oat flakes), 3) pea protein and 4) a red pepper (+/- salt). If you want to herb the bread up some more, you can throw in the mix some basil, parsley, and/or rosemary and/or thyme as well - for the extra m-mm-mm!-factor. Ahhh, I'm a big fan of in-bread baking, i.e. baking sandwich-toppings inside bread. It allows one to fill up one's sandwich with a ton of toppings without having to bust out an Inspector Gadget-type mouth to take a bite out ;-) It's also a lot of fun to play around with protein bread in this way (see for example, my mackerel protein bread sandwich; 'somewhat' ridiculous? Yes, but Holy Zeus! It was amazing!)

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Rosemary and Saffron Organic Whey Protein Bread

I almost crushed my head against the ceiling by nearly levitating in pleasure as I ate this bread. It was not only absurdly delicious, it also powered one hell of a gym sesh, KAPOOOW! This is protein powder baking at its finest! Welcome to the party, can I take your coat? Please, take a seat; the BCAAs are in the pitcher, help yourself to some protein cakes. Would you like to try a slice of ridiculously tasty protein bread too? Ah, follow me, please ;-)))))))

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Dark Chocolate Raspberry Protein Piecake

"I dreamt about this recipe last night, made it following the coordinated of my dream, and it came out of the oven just as I imagined:with a song, as if resting on a cloud." That's what I would be writing if I were a recipe 'fabulist,' also known as: a a liar, also known as: a let's-juggle-with-the-truth-since-no-one-will-ever-know type person, which, thankfully, I am not. I like to write down the whole dirty behind-the-scenes, however messy, ill-conceived, and downright ridiculous. See, the truth about this recipe is that I wasn't planning on adding any berries. I was just going to make a chocolate cake but, when I flipped it over, the center collapsed so... I ate it (:-D) and, after eating what could ostensibly be classified as the cake's heart, I stood there facing a hollowish cake. What to do? Well, not wanting to let that stand, I opened the freezer, brought out a bunch of frozen raspberries, and I stuffed the cake with them - sprinkling it then with cocoa and coconut flour for the BOOOM. Then I stuck it back in the oven for five minutes and that was that. The result was more of a chocolate raspberry piecake than a chocolate raspberry cake because the center was so filled with raspberries that it reminded me of a pie but if you want to go ahead and call it just a cake, go for it. Either way, not a bad idea, when you think about it: to make a cake, scoop it out, fill it with berries and call it a piecake. Pourquoi-pas, right? ;-)

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