Chocolate Filled Pancake Puffs are stuffed pancake puffs with a melted chocolate filling. These mini pancake puffs are made without eggs, gluten free, dairy free. These paleo and vegan healthy pancake poppers are soft and fluffy, a cute fun breakfast bite - serve alone or dusted with powdered sugar.
Chocolate filled pancake puffs are mini pancake poppers made in a mini muffin pan. This American version is modeled after the Danish dessert, Aebleskiver, which are similar mini pancake puffs made in a Aebleskiver pan. You can make them in a mini muffin pan or use a specialty pan use to make the Danish version, here pancake puff pan .
What Are Pancake Puffs?
My pancake puffs are a mini ball pancake that is cute and fluffy and easy to make in a mini muffin pan. I made my recipe egg free, paleo, gluten free, dairy free and refined sugar free. They are also vegan.
Varieties of Pancake Puff Flavors
These pancake puffs are rolled in cinnamon sugar, but I also have a plain apple pancake puffs recipe or cinnamon sugar pancake puffs. All three recipes are vegan, gluten free, dairy free, paleo and egg free.
Serve them all with maple syrup and/or dust with powdered sugar.
Ingredients Needed
- Oat flour. Oat flour gives the pancake puffs healthy fiber and structure.
- Milk. To add liquid.
- Baking soda. To make them puffy.
- Applesauce. Instead of eggs, I blended apples with skin into a puree. The skin has pectin which reacts with baking soda to add rise like eggs. Or you can use store-bought applesauce.
- Cane sugar. A little cane sugar is needed to add the outside structure. If you try with maple syrup instead, add a few more tablespoon of oat flour.
- Lemon juice. A little also reacts with milk and baking soda to make the pancake puffs puffy.
- Flavorings & filling. Vanilla, salt, mini chocolate chips
See the recipe card at the bottom for full information on ingredients and quantities.
How to Make Pancake Puffs
For more detail, visit the complete and printable recipe at the bottom of this post, but here are general steps.
Prep: Chop an apple, and blend into a puree with skin on. You can use store-bought applesauce, but blending an apple will give you fiber. Preheat oven to 350 F.
Step 1: Add the milk, lemon, applesauce and sugar to a bowl and stir until the sugar dissolves, about one minute.
Step 2: Add the flour and baking soda.
Step 3: Mix the ingredients into a batter.
Step 4: Spoon 1 teaspoon of batter into each well. Add ½ teaspoon of chocolate chips, then add another 1 tablespoon of batter on top.
Step 5: Bake for 10-12 minutes. The tops should look brown and spring with the touch of a spoon.
Step 6: Dust with powdered sugar and serve with maple syrup.
Recipe Tips
Cooking time: Your oven temperature might vary so your puffs might be done as soon as 10 minutes - look for your puffs to spring back when pressed with a spoon or use a toothpick to test. It should come out clean.
Add nuts to the chocolate filling: When you add chocolate chips, also add crushed nuts. Bake as directed.
Storage
Pancake Puffs can be eaten immediately or stored refrigerated for 2 days. Reheat in the microwave for 10 seconds.
Make Ahead Option: Make the puffs in a mini muffin pan, allow to cool then freeze them in a storage bag. Thaw them in an oven for about 10 minutes at 350 F.
Make Chocolate Stuffed Pancakes
You can make these chocolate filled pancake puffs into stuffed pancakes on the griddle. Spoon a circle of batter onto a hot griddle. Sprinkle 1-2 teaspoon of chocolate chips into the center. Spoon more batter on top and flip pancakes and serve with powdered sugar.
FAQS
Mix the batter in a bowl, scoop into a mini muffin pan and bake. Serve with maple syrup.
Yes, this recipe of pancake puffs can be made like traditional pancakes, just spoon onto a hot griddle, flip and serve with maple syrup.
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📖 Recipe
Chocolate Filled Pancake Puffs
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup oat flour
- ½ cup applesauce 2 small apples pureed or blended
- ¼ cup cane sugar
- 2 tablespoon milk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- pinch salt
Chocolate filling
- ¼ cup chocolate chips
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a mini muffin pan with an oil spray or by rubbing oil with a paper towel.1 cup oat flour, ½ cup applesauce, ¼ cup cane sugar, 2 tablespoon milk, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon vanilla, pinch salt, 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- Add milk and lemon juice to a mixing bowl. Stir and allow the milk to curdle about one minute. Then add the sugar and applesauce. Stir again and allow the sugar to dissolve, around 1 minute. Then add the flour and baking soda.
- When filling the muffin wells, add 1 tablespoon of batter to the mini muffin pan well. Then sprinkle a half of a teaspoon of chocolate chips. Then add the other tablespoon on top.
- Bake 12 minutes or until the top is golden and springs back. A test won't work, it will come out with melted chocolate. Flip out quickly so they don't continue cooking.
- Serve with powdered sugar.
Dee Dine
These fluffy chocolate filled pancake puffs have a liquid chocolate filling made from chocolate chips.