A stack of gluten free hazelnut pancakes with chocolate coconut cream sauce will do your taxes for you. Just kidding, but it tastes mighty fine!
This post is sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill, but all opinions are – and will forevermore be – my own.
Yooooosemite Sam, have I got breakfast for you?! It’s been a hot minute since I’ve shown you a steamy succulent stack of gluten free pancakes. But it was well worth the hiatus because oh.my.lanta, these things are supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
I’ve made my fair share of gluten free almond flour, coconut flour, brown rice flour, etc., etc., pancakes, but never had I ever made hazelnut pancakes until…just now.
I used Bob’s Red Mill’s hazelnut flour and brown rice flour to fashion up this stack. They turn out nutty, fluffy, moist, and insanely addicting. I’m 98% sure no other stack I’ve made can measure up to these hot cakes, and those are strong words considering my undying love for the gf flippity flapjack.
Can we just address the elephant in the room here? The chocolate coconut cream elephant? The elephant you’re thinking turns a stack of breakfast pancakes into plate of dessert cakes, but totally doesn’t? It’s a real mind blow. Like an Andy Warhol painting. It will, beyond the shadow of a doubt, jettison you into outer space.
The chocolate coconut cream is nothing more than full-fat coconut milk, raw cacao powder, and pure maple syrup. This translates into a naturally sweetened and – I do declare – completely healthful topping for your stack o’ nutrish.
Don’t not do this. Do this.
Hazelnut Flour Pancakes with Chocolate Coconut Cream (gluten free)
Ingredients
For the Hazelnut Pancakes
- 1 cup hazelnut flour/meal
- ½ cup brown rice flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup optional
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup full-fat canned coconut milk*
For the Chocolate Coconut Cream:
- 1 (14-oz) can full-fat coconut milk
- 2 tablespoons raw cacao powder
- 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup to taste
Instructions
To Prepare the chocolate coconut cream:
- In a medium sized pot, add all ingredients for the chocolate topping and bring it to a full boil. Reduce the heat to a gentle boil and cook until thickened and smooth, stirring consistently, about 25 to 30 minutes.
To Make the Pancakes:
- In a mixing bowl, combine the hazelnut meal, brown rice flour, salt, cinnamon, and stir together well.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, maple syrup, and coconut milk.
- Pour the dry mixture in with the wet and mix until combined. Allow the batter to sit 5 to 10 minutes.
- Heat a large skillet or griddle to medium heat and add just enough oil to lightly coat the surface.
- Measure out a heaping 1/8 cup of pancake batter and pour it on the hot skillet. You will likely need to spread the batter into a circle shape using a spatula or fork. Allow pancake to cook on the first side about 2 to 3 minutes, until the sides set up. Flip and cook another couple of minutes until cooked through.
- Serve pancakes with desired amount of chocolate topping and hazelnuts.
Notes
Nutrition
More Gluten-Free Pancake Recipes:
Can this be done with only hazelnut flour and no brown rice flour?
Hi Kisha! You can make the pancakes with just hazelnut flour but the texture will turn out a little grainy. If you’re okay with that, feel free to give it a go and let me know how you like it!
The flavor is fantastic, but I really struggled with the pancakes not holding together as I flipped them. It basically turned into pancake crumble smothered in chocolate sauce. Tasted great though. Any idea what went wrong?
Oh my days. These look like legendary, never to forget, always to make again, to die for pancakes! Been thinking to make almond flour pancakes but realised I have all the other nuts in my pantry except almonds! Was researching pistachio first as I have a big bag of those..but I need to shell them, first thing in the morning and green pancakes may or may not put off my hubby or my toddler! But hazelnut!! Oooh! Do you know if they would work with only hazelnut flour, no rice flour? Need to stock me up on these speciality flours I think. Hoping these will work tomorrow!
This looks amazing!!! I can’t eat egg – what should I substitute? The chocolate coconut cream sounds divine, but I can’t imagine spending so much time making it… I get fatigued/distracted too easily. Is there a quick version that has a similar enough outcome?
Thanks again,
Ashlee
Thanks, Ashlee! You can make a gelatin, chia, or flax egg, but as a heads up, the pancakes may turn out a bit flatter than usual. Hope you enjoy!
these sound delicious, thanks for posing up this..
Simon
WHOA had no idea hazelnut meal existed… have to buy some ASAP!
I’ve looked at the local grocery store and the food coop and haven’t seen anything called hazelnut meal. is this something you purchased or did you grind it yourself in a food processor? These keep calling my name and want to try them soon! Thank you!