Breakfast in Bed – Gluten Free Pancakes

So I apologize for not posting this several weeks ago, but I made my husband breakfast in bed for his birthday!  He doesn’t always eat breakfast, but when I get a chance to make him feel special, I love making him breakfast in bed.  In my opinion breakfast in bed is a great way to start your morning.  I snuck out of bed while he was still sleeping and hurried down to the kitchen to make gluten free pancakes.  Neither one of us has a gluten allergy, but sometimes I really enjoy gluten free food.  The recipe I adapted from was by the lovely Tosca Reno. I love her cookbook of course, because she likes to make recipes healthy.  These pancakes were super easy.  They were more dense than your usual pancake, but super delicious!  I changed a couple items in her recipe based on the items I had in my cupboard and I added items like cinnamon and chocolate chips, my hubby loves chocolate chip pancakes.

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cup

1 tsp guar gum

1/2 cup almond milk

1 tsp organic honey

2 egg whites

1 tbsp safflower oil

1 tsp cinnamon

Optional: Gluten Free chocolate chips

cooking spray

Recipe:

Place all the dry ingredients in a medium bowl.  Using a whisk, mix dry ingredients well. Add milk, honey, eggs and oil.  Whisk until all ingredients are well blended. Add more milk if necessary to make batter runny. Pour 1/4 to 1/3 cup pancake batter on a hot griddle or frying pan coated with cooking spray; at this point if you want to make a few with chocolate chips – sprinkle the chocolate chips on the wet side of the pancake.  When bubbles form on top of pancake, flip. Cook until golden on both sides.