These Healthier Cinnamon Toast Crunch Oat Pancakes will bring you back to your childhood. Made with minimal ingredients. It’s healthy, quick and easy to make!
If you eat pancakes on Sundays this is a great recipe to try out! These pancakes are high in fiber, so you’ll feel satisfied and won’t be hungry for hours.
These Healthier Cinnamon Toast Crunch Oat Pancakes are fluffy, oil-free and delicious!
What you’ll need
The list:
- Oat flour – I usually buy it, but you can make your own by blending quick oats into fine powder. Blend extra oat flour and save it in an airtight container for other baking or cooking recipes
- Baking soda
- Cinnamon
- Eggs – cage-free eggs or any kind.
- Greek yogurt – I like to use Greek yogurt because you get a fluffier consistency. But, you can also use plain yogurt.
- Liquid sweetener – Use any liquid sweetener of choice, like: honey, maple syrup, date syrup or agave syrup.
- Erythritol – A zero-calorie sugar alternative but feel free to use Monkfruit or any other sugar of choice.
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal
How to make Healthier Cinnamon Toast Crunch Oat Pancakes
You’ll be amazed how easy and minimal these pancakes can be made.
The Instructions
- Mix dry ingredients: In a bowl, mix together oat flour, baking soda and cinnamon.
- Mix wet ingredients: In a separate bowl, combine eggs, greek yogurt and honey. Add-in mixture to dry ingredients and stir.
- Cook: Grease a non-stick pan and heat on medium. Once hot, drop two tablespoons of pancake batter onto the pan. Let the pancakes cook for 2-3 minutes, before flipping and cooking for a further 2 minutes. Transfer to a large plate. Repeat the process until all the pancake batter is used up.
- Mix cinnamon and sugar, spread pancakes with a little bit of butter and sprinkle on the pancakes.
- Toppings: Add Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal on top and enjoy!
What makes these pancakes healthier?
While traditional pancake recipes are high in carbohydrates and fat with have no nutritional value. These ones are not! here why:
- Lower in fat: Most pancake recipes use butter and cream. These ones are oil-free.
- Whole grain flour: In one-third cup, whole-grain oat flour has 7 grams of protein and 4 grams of fiber. It has less carbohydrates than regular flour and it will also keep you satisfied for hours!
- Lower in calories: Regularly pancakes are high in calories. In this recipe, you get less than 250 calories per 2 pancakes.
FAQ
Can I blend oats to get oat flour?
Can I make these pancakes vegan?
I’m allergic to gluten. What can I do?
How to store?
These pancakes can be stored pancakes in an airtight container or a ziplock bag in order to maximize their freshness. They last around 2-3 days in the fridge. After that, they may still be edible but the quality may not be the same.
Ingredients substitutes and notes
- For the oat flour, you can blend quick oats until ground.
- Replace greek yogurt with plain yogurt.
- If not having erythritol (a zero-calorie sugar) use any other type of sugar.
Healthier Cinnamon Toast Crunch Oat Pancakes
Equipment
- Stove top
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup oat flour 70 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda 5 g
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup greek yogurt 45 g
- 2 tablespoon honey 25 g
Cinnamon-sugar mix
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon erythritol
Topping
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix together oat flour, baking soda and cinnamon.
- In a separate bowl, combine eggs, greek yogurt and honey. Add-in mixture to dry ingredients and stir.
- Grease a non-stick pan and heat on medium. Once hot, drop two tablespoons of pancake batter onto the pan. Let the pancakes cook for 2-3 minutes, before flipping and cooking for a further 2 minutes. Transfer to a large plate. Repeat the process until all the pancake batter is used up.
- Mix cinnamon and sugar, spread pancakes with a little bit of butter and sprinkle on the pancakes.
- Add cinnamon toast crunch cereal on top and enjoy!
Notes
- For the oat flour, you can blend quick oats until ground.
- Replace greek yogurt with plain yogurt.
- If not having erythritol (a zero-calorie sugar) use any other type of sugar.
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