Peanut Butter Coconut Pancakes

Over the years my appetite and my taste buds have changed. I used to skip breakfast and just eat food out of the vending machine at school. I was a 'snacker', opting to pick at things rather than eat full meals. These days I love a good home cooked meal and I actually prefer to eat breakfast foods a lot of the time. Quite often you'll find me eating porridge at dinner time and one of my favourite lunch time meals is pancakes.

I shared with you before my recipe for banana and oat pancakes, only four ingredients, healthy yet quick and easy to make. But as with anything eating the same thing all of the time can get boring so I've been experimenting with batters and I have come up with a new recipe for you to try. Introducing my peanut butter coconut pancakes.

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Protein Muffins

I think I mention on a weekly basis just how much I love cake and even though I'm trying to be healthy I really can't live without it. So what's better than cake? A healthy cake packed full of protein, that's what!!

My latest recipe combines peanut butter, chocolate and protein oh and banana because fruit definitely means that these delicious muffins are indeed good for you.

Raw Peanut Butter Cups

I am a sucker for a few things in life these include chocolate and peanut butter. And when these two are combined, just wow. Heaven was found when I discovered peanut butter cups, I mean there is no way that I can just have one but this becomes a problem for my diet so  in my quest to eat better I've been experimenting and trying to find ways of making a slightly healthier version.

My recipe still combines that solid chocolate with the smooth peanut buttery goodness but you don't to feel so guilty when they pass your lips because there is a lot less sugar in them.

Chocolate & peanut Butter Banana Bites Recipe

This week I had a few bananas which needed using up. I decided to make banana cupcakes, as you'll see as you carry on reading, these cupcakes got transformed into something slightly different along the way…..

Banana + Peanut Butter Mini Muffins Recipe

Another week, another recipe. The kids are eating my cakes quicker than I can make them these days, I am in need of an extra pair of hands!!

Well this week I decided to make some banana and peanut butter mini muffins, perfect for popping in the lunch boxes but also a great alternative thing to have for breakfast.

Ingredients

* 200g Plain Flour
* 1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
* 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
* 1/2 tsp Salt
* 150g Castor Sugar
* 75g Butter melted
* 1 Egg
* 3 Bananas mashed
* 2 tbsp Peanut Butter (can add more or less)
* 20 Cake Cases


Preparation

* Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and set out the cake casings onto  two baking trays.
* Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt into one bowl.
* In another bowl mix together the mashed banana, castor sugar, egg and melted butter.

* Fold in the flour mixture into the banana mixture and mix until smooth.
* Stir in the peanut butter.
* Spoon the mixture into the cake casings.
* Place in the oven for 20-30 minutes, they should spring back when pressed.
* Put on a wire rack to cool.

These were a big hit with my little monkeys, they are moist but I use crunchy peanut butter so there is a mixture of textures inside. I think next time I will make normal sized muffins!!

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