I’ve been craving sweets lately (which sucks when you’re avoiding carbs, since everything sweet is carb-laden). Liquid stevia has become my best friend; we get it at Trader Joe’s, and one bottle will last both of us a couple of months.

I’m also prone to “food tantrums” (where nothing sounds good or what does sound good is an irresponsible choice). They used to be terrible and resulted in plenty of fights between Joey and me. I’m much better now (probably from a combination of being older and wiser and having some great medication), but I’m still prone to getting frustrated when I don’t know what I want or want something I can’t have.

Anyway, this morning, I was in desperate need of some pancakes. We’d already tried protein pancakes a few days ago, but Joey wanted to try making a chocolate version.  I looked over a few recipes out in the blogosphere, but I didn’t follow anything close enough to reference, so this is mostly a result of trial-and-error.

Makes 6 pancakes

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs
• 2.5 tablespoons coconut flour
• 1/2 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 scoop of Protein powder (We used MHP Paleo Protein in Vanilla Almond flavor)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 5-7 drops liquid stevia
• 1/4-1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk (start with a quarter cup and increase as needed)
• butter (to grease the pan)

Directions:

1. Heat a non-stick skillet or griddle over medium-high heat
2. Add all ingredients in a large mixing bowl
3. Whisk until thoroughly blended and lump-free
4. Use butter to grease non-stick skillet or griddle
5. Pour batter onto skillet (we cooked them three at a time based on our skillet size)
6. Cook on first side until you begin to see the bubbles on the surface of the pancake pop without re-forming.
7. Flip and cook until done throughout

This recipe makes six pancakes that are about 3″ in diameter.

We had ours topped with peanut butter. They’re also good with freshly whipped heavy cream and/or sugar free syrup! To make them without the chocolate flavor, just omit the cocoa powder and increase the coconut flour by 1/2 tbsp.

Enjoy. Today, we’ve conquered the bedroom closet.  Another two garbage bags full of clothes off to Goodwill, and we were able to whittle the contents of a very large closet down to this:

Tonight, we’ve got a huge bag of our socks to match up and put away (or toss).  We’re getting there, little by little.