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Vegan Pancake Recipe & I love that most vegan chocolate chips are "accidentally vegan" . . .

As requested by @vegancookingwl (vegan cooking with love) via Twitter www.twitter.com follow me @Brit_on_Twit

here is a little bit of pancake love from the kitchen of veggieloverbrit...

Vegan Pancakes~

Ingredients:
~1cup flour
~2tbsp baking powder
~1/2 tsp salt
~1 cup of your favorite vegan milk <3 I use Silk<3 plain but i have also tried vanilla and pumpkin spice (seasonal)
~1 tsp vanilla
~2 tbsp vegetable oil
~3 tbsp's of applesauce (or 1/2 of a very mashed banana.. banana pancakes<3)

I like to use the applesauce they taste like good old fashion grandma's pancakes but better! don't tell my grandma i said that tho!
Then you can add flavors to small portions of the batter for a pancake twist! Vegan Coffee Syrup Flavors are amazing you can make pancakes taste like just about anything! My favorite is raspberry <3 but i am tempted to just use fresh raspberries when they are season! who knows the possibilities could be endless!
But the best of all was adding Vegan Chocolate Chips <3
They were so good they should just be called CAKES ! <3 <3 <3

Directions:
Whisk together dry ingredients first in one bowl, then the wet in another, then mix them together gently!
(my first batch i went whisk crazy.. they cooked so much slower!)
Cook on a preheated greased skillet! vegan friendly grease of course Vegetable oil perhaps ; )

It makes about 10 depending on size!

and in response to @vegancookingwl 's inquiry about chocolate chips being vegan?

Most chocolate chips are actually "accidently vegan" like ghirardelli & hersheys! cocoa butter, powder, oil is an all natuaul vegetable fat derived from cocoa bean!

I use ENJOY LIFE brand semi-sweet chocolate chips.. dairy, eggs, casien, wheat, nut, soy free, gluten free, 100% vegan <3

Now go enjoy some pancakes or some chocolate!

Happy Vegging <3

my lazy amazing vegan dinner special thanks to trader joes

I love creating new and exciting vegan dishes from scratch but sometimes or a lot of the time, at least in my life, i have zero time to eat, or by the time i have time to eat i have zero energy to cook. So that is where my dear friend TRADER JOES, perhaps you have met? Comes in to save the day! They sell VEGAN CUCUMBER WONTONS now (k for a few months 'now')! they use to only have meat ones but the vegan cucumber creation came in and is here to stay! Perhaps you are reading this and thinking why are you posting about food in a bag any idiot can cook and eat that. Well this is why... the direction of the bag make them suck! it says to either a: steam them, or b: pan fry them. But really you need to steam them first! Then pan fry them ever so slightly and then they are to die for! Trader Joe's also sells Vegan Fried Rice, that cooks in a couple tablespoons of olive oil for 3 minutes and is done! Like magic! This is the quickest, simplest, dinner idea i can come up with after a long non stop day, and it always always taste like it was slaved over for hours on end. Thats where the extra special thanks to TJ comes in : )

What?.. can't a vegan be lazy from time to time ; )

short and sweet

... this is the blog of a vegan living her life. . . you think you know, but you have no idea.