Pink Protein Pancakes

These cinnamon-vanilla protein pancakes, shaped into pink(ish) dresses and hearts for extra enjoyable munching, are guaranteed to keep you full for hours.  Made with brown rice flour and low cal almond milk, they are def a healthy choice.  The various recipes for these protein pancakes call for quinoa flour, but when I saw that quinoa flour costs $10…………brown rice flour won (although, it cuts down on the fluffiness).

I like to load ’em up with cinnamon– always gotta add way more than the recipe calls for.  The eggs in this mixture add protein, but in order for these cakes to live up to their name, you must add that scoop of protein powder.  I like to use this french vanilla whey protein– tastes delish and it has only 1 gram of fat and 1 gram of sugar, to 24 grahams of protein!  You could even drop this in your water (or almond milk) to curb hunger…it’s similar, calorie-wise, to eating a dinky little chewy bar, but way more filling.

Here are couple of protein pancake (or waffle) recipes to work off of:  1,  2

To create the cute little dresses, I used a regular cookie cutter.  Dab it with olive oil or spray it with non-stick cooking spray, lay it on the skillet, and fill it up with batter (this dress shape has stubborn nooks and crannies, so it was a bit of a challenge getting the pancake free from the mold, but so much fun to eat a dress shaped pancake!)  Hearts are fun too if you don’t have a mold.  I used red food coloring, because I just haddd to make these pink….but I should have used more drops.

And if you reallyy want to load up on protein, add a dollop of peanut butter on top (and then honey on top of that! Mmm. Ooo, or apple butter.  Somuchyum).