Politics and Pancakes
Touchy stuff, politics and pancakes. Both are hot-button topics. Two grown adults throwing down over what breakfast joint has the best pancakes? Typical Saturday morning. Heck, syrup just might be the glue that is currently holding this country together. Don’t quote me on that since I haven’t had real sugar or an intellectual conversation about the presidency since 2008.
Wake up, America!
Lately, people have been getting legitimately weird about politics. It is nearly impossible to have a civilized conversation with someone without one person losing their mind. My group text dudes, aptly named Group Chat ¹, have been hashing out this whole election thing for a while now and at one point every other text simply said “Wake up America!”, in a completely adult, not-childish-at-all manner. That’s when it clicked.
Now he was referring to some sort of important politic-y thing, but I was already on to something more than sort of important. Pancake options…as in there aren’t enough of them. Who says we have to “go gluten or go hungry”? Not in this America! We don’t need refined grains to have kickin’ pancakes. We need pancakes that are of all shapes, sizes, and levels of carbohydrate!
Chickpea Flour Pancakes 🥞 & Low Carb Blueberry Syrup!
Get ready for twenty-seven pictures that will make you question standings on
voting pro-gluten this year.
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May I present the candidates… Chickpea Flour Pancakes. *Applause*
Low Carb Blueberry Syrup!
*Crowd roars and collectively unbuttons jeans*
Butter won’t lie to you. Butter wants you to be happy.
Vote Pancakes/Butter 2016.
Don’t worry, syrup is on board.
If this was a beauty pageant and not a pancake election it’d be over already.
Chickpea flour for the W I N.
And that’s what I like to call Gluten Freedom.
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Chickpea Flour Pancakes & Low Carb Blueberry Syrup! {Gluten Free & Grain Free}
Grain-free and fiber-FULL pancakes with a to-die-for easy blueberry syrup! Let's brunch!
Ingredients
- Chickpea Flour Pancakes
- 1/4 c + 2 tbsp Chickpea Flour
- 1 tbsp Coconut Flour sub 2 tbsp chickpea flour if you're out of coconut
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 cup Non-dairy Milk
- 2 Eggs, whole
- 1 tbsp Coconut Oil or Butter, softened
Blueberry Syrup
- 1 cup Blueberries, fresh
- 1 cup Water
- 1/4 cup Truvia Granulated Sweetener-I use the Truvia Baking Blend that still has some sugar but not so much sugar that I want to die. Swerve works too.
Instructions
- Combine flour, eggs, milk, and oil in a large bowl and mix until Flour, leaving out the baking powder until you are ready to cook. Set aside for 10 minutes to thicken. This is a great time to have a brunch cocktail! Or I guess you could prepare the syrup...
Prepare the Syrup
- In a saucepan, combine sweetener, water, and berries and bring to a slow boil. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook uncovered from about 20 minutes or until the sauce reaches your desired thickness. I like it thick. Is it syrup? Jam? No one knows.
When You're Ready to Fry the Pancakes
- Add the baking powder to your batter and mix well.
- Spritz a small skillet with oil or cooking spray and turn heat to medium.
- Pour batter slowly on the center of the pan. The pancake spreads quickly so if you have a lid handy, place it over the skillet and let the pancake cook 3/4 of the way before flipping. This will give you more lift and a fluffier pancake.
- Flip and cook for about :30. Repeat with the rest of the batter.
- Top with butter and hot syrup.
¹ Group Chat is an amazing meeting of the minds that includes myself and three dudes whom I’ve known for quite some time in different capacities. We’ve chatted everyday for 3 years. It’s probably not a record but it’s pretty damn amazing anyway.
Wow! The ingredients are super simple and easy to put together! Why can’t we all get along like pancakes and syrup?!? GFP & BS for 2020!
WOW these pancakes look amazing! And that blueberry syrup? I think I could drink that!
Drink it? I want to LIVE IN IT haha 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
It’s really difficult to talk about politics because it’s so ingrained in people’s core believes about life, family, religion… it’s just easier to talk about PANCAKES. Your photos are pure FOOD PORN, you know that, right? I want to know what your photography set up is, Missy.
Agreed! It’s best to avoid the topic unless it’s someone you don’t mind arguing with!
Thank you so much! Some foods are just easy to make look tasty haha! My photo setup is a big space of natural, indirect light (ie the floor in front of my livingroom window) and a few pieces of white board and some linen napkins! Nothing fancy. My camera is not a DSLR but I do have a pretty nifty macro lens for shoots such as these 🙂
That’s amazing! I just have a point and shoot (Canon) and I’m trying to get the most out of it! 🙂
If you ever want to talk photography I’m game. I am learning as I go but I love to share and learn!
These look really good! It’s just a shame I don’t like blueberries…….
You’re in luck. Berry substitution is permitted!
Berry good, berry good.
Haha! Puns are fun
Wow, your pancakes look great!
Thank you so much!!! <3
These look delicious! I love fruit syrup. 🙂
Also, I have to argue that maybe butter does lie to you….tastes so good, butter on everything!…..until my pants won’t button.
Well done Lizzy McLizzerson.
Butter can lie to me alllll it wants. Unconditional love <3
Pancakes are way more important than all the election-y, politic-y stuff.
I could not agree more. Vote for Pancakes!
Pancakes for President! At least they will be sweet sometimes.