Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes with Peanut Butter Syrup

   

   I mentioned that yesterday was my husband's birthday.  For a special birthday breakfast I made him these pancakes with bananas and chocolate chips (of course) topped with peanut butter syrup.  He thought they were delicious.  I think that next time we will just put a little of the peanut butter syrup on them and use some regular syrup also, because it tasted very rich.  I pinned this recipe from recipeshoebox.  The recipe calls for butter or cooking spray for the skillet, but I used canola oil to give the edges a nice crunch.  This is just our preference.  Sometimes I use butter for a softer version.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups unbleached, all purpose flour

3 Tbsp white sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 1/2 cups buttermilk (you can use any type of milk)

1 tsp vanilla

1 Tbsp canola oil

1 large egg

2 ripe bananas

1/4 cup mini chocolate chips (tossed with 2 tsp flour so that they won't sink to bottom of batter) 

For syrup:

1 cup syrup

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

Directions:

1.  Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. 

2.  In a separate bowl, mix milk, vanilla, oil, and egg.  Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients until just combined.

3.  Mash bananas with a fork and fold in bananas and chocolate chips.

4.  Heat skillet to medium high and coat with butter, cooking spray, or oil.

5.  Add batter by 1/4 cupfuls.  When batter bubbles, flip pancake to cook other side.

6.  For syrup, combine peanut butter and syrup and microwave on high for 1 minute.  Stir to combine.