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These chocolate pancakes are free of gluten, eggs, dairy, & refined sugar! They’re full of wholesome ingredients, including zucchini, but you can’t even taste it!

Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes | Made with wholesome ingredients. Gluten, dairy, egg and refined sugar free. Leave it to me to find a way to eat chocolate for breakfast. And since pancakes are basically my favorite food group, (as you can tell by the ridiculous amount of pancake recipes on the blog 🙈) I just had to make a chocolate version. This is for you, my fellow chocolate lovers—chocolate zucchini pancakes with chocolate maple syrup…yes, chocolate topped with more chocolate! You’re welcome! 😉

Don’t worry, I added a whole shredded zucchini to these chocolate oat pancakes, so the vegetable automatically cancels out any unhealthiness that may be found in these…isn’t that, like, a rule or something?! The good news is, these pancakes are made with wholesome ingredients, like oat flour, coconut oil, flaxseed, and sweetened with maple syrup, so the added zucchini ends up being a bonus! 

Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes | Made with wholesome ingredients. Gluten, dairy, egg and refined sugar free. Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes | Made with wholesome ingredients. Gluten, dairy, egg and refined sugar free. Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes | Made with wholesome ingredients. Gluten, dairy, egg and refined sugar free. An easy mixture of maple syrup and cocoa powder makes a delicious chocolate maple syrup to drizzle all over these fluffy pancakes! The only thing that makes them better is fresh strawberries, because chocolate + berries are 💣!

I hope you give these a try and enjoy them as much as we do! 

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Chocolate Zucchini Pancakes

  • Author: Joscelyn Abreu
  • Yield: 10-12 pancakes 1x
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Description

These chocolate pancakes are free of gluten, eggs, dairy, & refined sugar! They’re full of wholesome ingredients, including zucchini, but you can’t even taste it!

Ingredients

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PANCAKES:

  • 1 cup *oat flour
  • 1/2 cup gf all purpose or regular all purpose flour I used King Arthur Gluten Free Multipurpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon of salt
  • 2 tablespoons flaxseed meal
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 cup shredded zucchini, about 1 whole small zucchini
  • 1 cup almond milk, a little more may be needed
  • 1/4 cup Maple Syrup
  • 2 tablespoon coconut oil, plus extra for pan
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

CHOCOLATE SAUCE: (optional)

  • 1 tablespoon regular/dairy-free butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup Maple Syrup
  • 6–7 tablespoons Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
  • splash of vanilla extract, optional
  • Fresh sliced fruit such as strawberries, raspberries, or bananas (optional)

Instructions

PANCAKES:

  1. *You can easily make your own oat flour by grinding whole oats (I use my coffee grinder, but a food processor works!)
  2. In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients—flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, flaxseed, cocoa powder, mixing well. Stir in shredded zucchini, almond milk, maple syrup, oil, and vanilla extract, mixing together just until incorporated. Let rest for a few minutes to allow the oat flour and flaxseed meal to soak up the liquid and bind the mixture together.
  3. Grease a pan or griddle with extra coconut oil and place on the stove over medium heat. Pour batter onto the hot pan by 1/4 cupfuls. Flip when edges have set and cook thoroughly. If batter gets too thick, stir in a splash of milk.

CHOCOLATE SAUCE:

  1. In a small bowl, combine together the melted butter, maple syrup, cocoa powder, and vanilla. Add extra cocoa powder to make it thicker or add more maple syrup to thin. You can heat for 15-20 seconds in the microwave if you’d like it warm.
  • Category: Breakfast

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  4. AL says

    Oh my, I have been looking at those pancakes for a while, I am a guest at a friends house, I think I’ll try to make them as a thank you for hosting me! Can’t wait!

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  6. Minna says

    I love chocolate and zucchini together! I made chocolate zucchini banana bread last year but these pancakes look so delicious i may need to make this this weekend for sunday brunch 🙂 thanks for sharing, Joscelyn!

    Reply

  11. Raj says

    Chocolate, strawberry & banana? You had me there. Adding zucchini is such a great idea! I will definitely have to share & try this out!

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