Earlier this weekend, Caitlin tweeted that she was eating red velvet pancakes.
What? I had never heard of these. I was in shock. I didn’t know there was such a thing. I am naive, sheltered, and live in a bubble.
All I knew was that I needed them now.
I stopped whatever incredibly important thing I was doing at the time and googled these things – these red velvet pancake things.
What I found is life changing.
Cake isn’t really my thing.
Unless said cake is double chocolate with chocolate fudge filling and chocolate fudge icing, I usually pass it up. The only other exception is red velvet, which actually is chocolate – I learned that when I crawled out from under my rock a few years ago. Not sure what I thought it was before.
I can often pass up frosting, too. However, there is just something about red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting.
You can imagine my delight when the pancakes turned out perfectly. Even better – the giant glob of frosting on top.
The pancakes are actually vegan, but I destroyed that as soon as I added the cream cheese frosting.
I always have some leftover frosting in the fridge just for times like these.
Or times when I need to regain my sanity and dig in with a giant spoon.
I can’t even tell you how delicious the pancakes smelled, let alone tasted.
The minute I removed them from the griddle, I could smell delicious, fluffy, red velvet cake. It filled the entire kitchen. And yes, they also tasted exactly like red velvet cake.
Especially when the creamy frosting melted into the warm pancakes.
There aren’t even words.
Red Velvet Pancakes
slightly adapted from here
makes 8 pancakes
1½ cups minus 1½ tablespoons unsweetened vanilla almond milk
1 1/2 tablespoons vinegar
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons red food coloring
1 tablespoon chocolate chips
Whisk together milk and vinegar and set aside to curdle.
In a mixing bowl, add wheat flour, all purpose flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda. Make a well in the center, and pour in milk mixture and food coloring. Mix until combined.
Preheat skillet or griddle on medium heat. Add 1/4 to 1/3 cup batter. Once bubbles form, gently flip and cook for a few more minutes.
Top with chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting.
Now it’s time to hightail it out of here before I gain 10 more pounds just thinking about them. I have to go make more pancakes, anyway.
I’m Jessica and this is where I share my stuff. You will find a balance of healthy recipes, comfort food and indulgent desserts.
I had no idea there was such a thing either. I think your blog is changing my life. Or at the very least, helping out my sweet tooth.
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These do look delicious. There is something very decadent about eating something that looks like cake for breakfast!
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No words for this one. I am salivating on my keyboard. Must. have. now!
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These are so creative and too fun. I love that you just happen to have extra frosting on hand. Mmmmm.
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Omg. I want these right now!! I’d eat these for the cream cheese frosting alone, wow!!
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I want one!!! Definitely love the cream cheese frosting too… looks delicious!
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Wait so the red part just comes from red food coloring?! Wah..I thought there was some secret red flavor LOL. Talk about living under a rock..
Regardless, these look heavenly.
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I made my first ever red velvet cake for my birthday – but instead of food colouring I used BEETS! Maybe some beet pancakes are in store? ;)
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loved our chats today :) now it’s time for this soccer mom to get busy on…everything else on my list. ugh.
red velvet. yum
the frosting, double yum!
xo
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I heard somewhere that red velvet cake was chocolate, which made me think that I wouldn’t like it (not a huge chocolate cake fan). But I had my first slice a few weeks ago and was ASTOUNDED by how delicious it was!! But the weird thing is that it didn’t taste like chocolate at all to me. That could mean that a) it was some sort of strange red velvet cake that wasn’t actually chocolate or b) the reason I don’t like chocolate is because it’s brown…..? hahah.
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Ohhh my goodness do these ever look amazing! I’ve been following you for a few weeks now and just red through all your previous posts – you have an AMAZING amount of delicious looking recipes. Thanks for sharing!!
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A combo of cupcake, pancake, breakfast, and dessert I’m sold. That looks incredible.
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My favorite cake…in pancake form = no breakfast shame!! haha :-D
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omg why can’t we live in the same city? I am certain that we would be the best eating partners ever!! These look FANTASTIC!
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Oh my word….girl these look divine and I can eat them! They are sans eggs!!! Wooot!
I am super excited to try these for breakfast one day this week :)
XXOO
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I am making these as soon as I can get the ingredients together!! OMG YUM!
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These are insane- in the best possible way! Do you think I can make these in waffle form? Anyhoo, you are such a kitchen diva- amazing!
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Brilliant!! Love the color. The icing is definitely the best part of red velvet cake. Cream cheese……. mmmmmmmmm. :)
Jenn
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how had I made it to age 40 and never EVAH seen a red velvet pancake.
only the cake.
so
very
sad
for
me :)
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You’ve earned yourself a rating of XXX!!! FOOD PORN!!!
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I’m bookmarking these for when we get together with our friends this Summer. They’re gonna think I’m so gourmet when I pull these off the griddle!
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Amazing!! I have never seen these before… love it!
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Those pancakes look so pretty, I’ve never heard of them before!
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i am so down with these. a little melted white chocolate and that whipped cream and i am good to go on sunday mornings.
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Wow… My husband would LOVE these. He’s always begging for red velvet cake, but I hate to have a giant cake sitting around (because it doesn’t sit around… we eat the whole thing!). Some day I will surprise him and make these.
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Oh my goodness these look delicious! What a great idea!
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D’lish! I love your variations of red velvet recipes. The cookies were divine!
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Oh my goodness! I knew I shouldn’t have clicked on this link… I’m in trouble now! So is my waistline.. ;)
Seriously, these look yummy! I will be making these!
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Wow, these look fantastic! I don’t know what it is about colourful food, but it really does seem to taste better! The mind is a weird and wonderful thing…
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I made these b/c of Valentine’s Day and they are very good. I don’t even like chocolate pancakes but these are good. Thank you!
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Looks delicious….
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Does anyone know if cows milk will work?
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Jessica — March 17th, 2011 @ 10:45 am
It does!
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andrea — March 17th, 2011 @ 3:59 pm
Thanks so much!!
GAAAAAAAASSSPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Red velvet cake and pancakes? My two favorite things in the world? Together in one delectable dessert/breakfast? INCONCEIVABLE!!!! I do believe I’ve died and gone to heaven. And you, dear Jessica, must be God. I thank you for bringing these into my (after)life. :)
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I heard about these a few weeks ago. On a tv show that was talking about how food trucks are making a big come back. I can’t tell you any thing else about the show because once they talked about and showed red velvet pancakes I lost my mind and started to google everything about them. I will be experimenting with your recipe. Thanks for putting a recpie out that wasn’t made for an army.
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I just found my new favorite pancake.
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