Celebration pancakes!

So it has been a week since Tom has changed his eating habits and started exercising regularly. He has lost about 2 kgs so far and I thought he deserved a yummy (yet healthy!) breakfast to celebrate. A big stack of moist indulgent pancakes it was going to be :)

GLUTEN FREE APPLE PANCAKES 
I wanted to try something slightly different from my usual Banana pancakes, so decided to make these ones up. Adding mashed up fruit into your recipes is a good way to disguise them (for kids especially!) but also gives the recipe natural sweetness.

• 1 apple, peeled and cut up into small chunks
• 3 tbsp of milk
• 1 egg
• 4-5 tbsp of almond meal
• Vanilla
• Pinch of baking soda

1.  Blend your apple, milk and egg together until the apple is smooth. If you do not have a blender, you can microwave your apple chunks with a drop of water and mash it up with the back of your spoon once soft.
2. Add in the almond meal, vanilla and baking soda and mix well to form a batter, if it is too runny, add in a bit more almond meal or you could always add in some oats.
3. Have a hot, well greased pan ready and spoon on dollops of the pancake batter. Wait till they bubble up nicely and form a slight crust before flipping them round (they take a bit longer to cook then normal pancakes).

This recipe makes a stack enough for 1 hungry person, although it doesn't look like much quantity-wise, Tom couldn't finish up the whole stack! I layered mine with bananas and peanut butter and topped them off with 1 square of melted Dark chocolate. My friend Ember usually makes a lovely healthy chocolate sauce by dissolving some cocoa into milk/water with a drop of honey as well. 

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