Hello! I just got home from my super fun trip to Minneapolis and wanted to share my recipe for Cinnamon Chex Pancakes.
The group of bloggers visiting General Mills included:
RER, Julie from PB Fingers, Janae aka Hungry Runner Girl, Tina a la Carrots n’ Cake, Amanda from Run to the Finish and Gina the Fitnessista.
After the cereal eating contest we were invited into the Betty Crocker test kitchens to create our own delicious recipes with cereal.
I was intimidated by the whole thing – the amazing kitchen, variety of ingredients and the fact that I consider a few of the other girls the best bloggers in the business.
I contemplated a lot of wild but healthy ideas, but decided to create a new to me pancake recipe with my favorite cereal – Cinnamon Chex.
We only had an hour to decide what we were making, make it, plate it and present. It felt very Top Chef!!
Amazingly, it came out great and everyone really liked it!! Yeah!!! So I knew I had to share… especially because it’s gluten free, dairy free and delicious.
Cinnamon Chex Pancakes Recipe:
- 1 cup Cinnamon Chex
- 1/2 cup gluten free oats
- 1 tsp: salt, cinnamon, baking soda
- 1 Tb. vanilla protein powder
- 2 heaping TB. almond butter
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup almond milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Optional: Chia seeds.
Directions: Heat skillet. Grind cereal and oats in a blender to make a flour.
Combine dry ingredients. Heat AB in microwave to soften if necessary. Whisk together wet ingredients. Combine.
Cook. Top with powdered sugar and/or maple syrup.
This is me chatting it up with one of the test kitchen chefs.
Everyone’s cereal based recipes…
All the bloggers shared their dishes and explained them. Then, we dug in!
Tina made a pancake too, but she specified hers was single serving. So, I had to specify that my 12 pancake batch was totally single serving too. I think Janae was the only one on board with that.
I’m serious.
Either way, enjoy!
you and Janae are my favs…
One serving = however many I can eat at the time. There are no limits on pancakes.
Butterscotch pecan cookies!
Those look really good!
That all looks so great! That would have freaked me out to have to come up with a recipe, so maybe if I actually made more things at home it would have been easier to come up with one on the fly. I need to start making all these pancake variations that I see because it seems like there are so many options. Looks like a great time!
wow, that is super impressive that you came up with such an awesome recipe on the spot. I might have panicked! Definitely going to have to try it out 🙂
It seriously could have been a disaster – I was worried!
Your pancake serving size sounds totally reasonable. Perhaps it’s a runner serving size? 😉
I made chicken breasts stuffed with goat cheese and arugula, wrapped in pancetta last night. SO good.
A plate full of pancakes= 1 serving 😉
Last thing I made was a bowl of oatmeal. Yummy
1 batch = 1 serving, right? 😉
Looks like one serving to me…
this is brilliant! all of the pancakes = 1 serving.
I’m with Linda! Haha!
Those pancakes look amazing. I hope you enjoyed your trip to Minneapolis…and the mild weather we’re having. 😉
Love your blog.
I kinda wanna snack on that cinnamon Chex; talk about your food without brakes!!
I think anywhere from 2-4 pancakes is a serving, depending on size.
Last thing I baked was paleo banana bread for my daughter last night. Turned out pretty yummy, if I do say so myself!
Looks like a very fun trip.
What a fun event!
MB
Pancake portion sizes totally change from day to day! 🙂
300000000 pancakes in one serving. Enjoy. 🙂
you take the best photos, i even used one of you in my post HAHA! Umm we talked about portions and yeah I think ours are distorted 🙂