Yesterday I had ice cream sandwiches for breakfast.
Take that, cold cereal.
And of course, in following the “healthy dessert” theme of this blog, the above ice cream pancakes are much healthier than they look. So please feel free to eat them for breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner. Or, um, all three.
Ice Cream Sandwich Pancakes
Adapted from: Brownie Batter Pancakes
- 1/4 cup spelt or all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa or dutch cocoa -(You can try substituting regular cocoa, but I have not tried)
- pinch uncut stevia OR 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
- 1/16 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tbsp oil (or applesauce, only if you like the taste/texture of fat-free pancakes)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 5 and 1/2 tbsp milk of choice
Mix dry ingredients very well, then add wet. Make pancakes! Then spread your favorite ice cream, mashed banana, or my egg-free healthy ice cream recipe in between the pancakes. For a truly-authentic look, you can even poke holes in the ice cream sandwich pancakes.
View Ice Cream Sandwich Pancakes Nutrition Facts
LINK OF THE DAY: Voluminous Vanilla Ice Cream
Ragnhild says
Um-yum! These pancakes both looks and sounds super delicious! Nothing wrong with ice cream for breakfast as long as its healthy 😀
Tina @ Faith Fitness Fun says
You never fail to amaze me! I’m a huge lover of ice cream sandwiches and then you find a way to make them into my favorite meal of the day in a healthy way. Love you, Katie!
Chocolate-Covered Katie says
Aww I love you right back, Tina! And I heard a rumor it’s your birthday??? Happy Birthday!! 🙂 🙂
Kara says
Hey Katie, not sure if anyone has asked this already (on this post or the other chocolate pancake post), buuuut do you think these would turn out well if I used oat flour?
Kara says
Just kidding, I went ahead and tried it anyway. I also added flax, added vanilla extract to the (massive) banana ice cream, and drizzled coconut butter on top of the whole thing.
THIS is the new essential weekend recipe. Totally worth all the dishes I made. I honestly felt like I was eating a HUGE and decadent dessert for breakfast. Thank you soooooooo muuuuuuuch. I am going to make this for anyone and everyone.
Chocolate-Covered Katie says
Yum! I love your idea to use oat flour… and I’m so excited to know it works!
Jenny says
Just made thes for a singel lady dinner. For my taste they need waaay more sweetner. Last year my sathurday breakfast was banana soft serve
Hugs Jenny
Chelsea says
OMG I made these today and just WOW. Great recipe 😀
As for the question of the day… I can’t say I’ve ever *had* ice cream for breakfast but it sure does sound like a good idea 😉 I usually have pancakes or a smoothie (or sometimes boring ol’ toast). I LOVE pancakes, so a chocolate pancake was something I knew immediately that I just had to try 🙂
Chocolate-Covered Katie says
I’m so excited you made them!!!
Kathy says
For breakfast, I’ll usually eat pancakes, or oatmeal. I’ll have to be trying these soon! I think I’ll put in between them either a pureed frozen banana or Fage Greek yogurt if I have any in the house!
Staci says
Katie, these are delicious! I’ve made them twice–the first time I used regular Tollhouse cocoa, and the pancakes were NOTHING compared to the second time when I used the dark chocolate cocoa. The chocolate flavor was much less intense in the first batch. They weren’t bad, just lacked the chocolate flavor I was looking for. So fantastic for breakfast though!!!
Chocolate-Covered Katie says
Dark cocoa is really cool, right?! I love it in homemade ice-cream recipes too. It’s reeeaally good blended with strawberries! 🙂
Staci says
It really is. Very versatile! I’m a cottage cheese fanatic (and also not vegan 😉 and love to experiment with adding different things to it. One day I was struck with the strange urge to add dark cocoa, peanut butter, and a touch of stevia. It was absolute heaven! My next adventure is the brownie batter dip you posted a while back–so much chocolate, so much happiness.
Isobelle says
Oh wow! my mouth is watering! I’ll definitely have to make these for breakfast one day
aubrey says
If you use the almond milk do you NEED applesauce or oil? Maybe can you use 1 tsp. guar gum?
Nicole @ BikramNic says
My boyfriend LOVES ice-cream sandwiches.. those cheapy awful rectangle ones! I am going to surprise him with these tomorrow morning for a post-valentine breakfast! I’m planning on mixing in a little almond butter with a frozen banana for the ice-cream because he loves peanut butter. He always makes fun of me for my healthy pseudo-desserts so I’ll add quite a bit of agave to try to convince him its a treat!!
Erica says
I think I will be making some ice cream pancakes myself. I’m thinking about your snickerdoodle or banana pancakes w/ butter pecan ice cream 😛 I’m nuts over nuts!
Emily says
Hi Katie!! I love this whole blog so much, but especially your single-serving desserts. All to often I would skip out on baking because I didn’t want to have to deal with 36 of the same dessert myself (a single lady) but now I make a single serving something almost very night! I was wondering though, do you have all your single serving desserts in one list? I knew abou the cupcakes, but I didn’t see these until today. Thanks!
Chocolate-Covered Katie says
I do! 🙂 🙂
https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/tag/single-serving/
Emily says
YES! Thank you!
latisha says
ok, so just recently i had asked u if u had a wafer recipe to make ice cream sandwiches with… well i used this to inspire me! instead of making the batter in a skillet like a pancake i baked it in the oven…then when it cooled i stuck them in the freezer for a while… later put the ice cream in and then put them back in the freezer until frozen…. lets just say AAHHHHMAZING!!!! lol
Laura says
Can it be make with whole wheat flour?
Unofficial CCK Helper says
Whole wheat flour is not the best thing for baking.
eli says
what type of oil do you use for the pancakes? coconut?
Unofficial CCK Helper says
You can use canola, veg oil, or melted coconut oil. If coconut oil, make sure any other liquid ingredients aren’t cold.
Al Green says
You posted this over two years ago! I can’t believe I’ve missed out on these this whole time.
Leslie says
So i made this, and the pancakes by themselves were a bit blah, but as soon as we put ice cream on it it was so good. Like really really good. We used chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, but you can really use anything.
Katherine says
These are INSANELY delicious!!! I didn’t have any cocoa powder so I subbed it with Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup and tasted UH-MAZING! It so gooey and perfect! I bet it would taste great with the cocoa powder but I’m sticking with the syrup. It was just too gooey and fabulous to forget. Love your work Katie. Made tons of your recipes but this one just killed me. Keep it up!
Candice says
I had these today for the zillionth time and thought it was time I tell you how much I love them! This is seriously the most genius idea ever thought of, ever. I’m not vegan or vegetarian, but this blog is my happy place! I like to put SO Delicious coconut milk chocolate ice cream on these pancakes. I’m so happy there’s someone who understands and nurtures my need for dessert breakfast! Family and friends think I’m a weirdo 😀
Ayun says
I don’t know why these didn’t work for me 🙁 I measured everything but I think the mixture was too dense? And I could do only 4 little, thick pancakes. It was delicious anyway, like all of your recipes haha.
Teresa S says
Could you make these whoopie pies???? Since finding out i have a wheat allergy i have really missed them. What would you use for the filling if you wanted to try it. HELP!!!
Kaiser Brown says
I made these and it was the most fun I had eating breakfast or any other meal for that matter in a long time! Next time I won’t refrigerate the batter as it got hard afterwards that’s why it’s so crumbly but tell the truth that was the best part! Thanks CCK!
MPaula says
As a kid I loved ice cream sandwiches. After many years without, I bought one and was so disappointed. It may have been the “ice milk” instead of ice cream or the fact that I had cleaned up my diet, but I have never tried again. I like using spelt flour. Now I just need to find something for the filling.
I have pinned your list of desserts for one. I assume that mug cakes require a microwave, which I do not have. Do you have an alternate method? (I apologize if that makes me seem too lazy to check for myself.)
Jason Sanford says
This one does not require a microwave. Pretty sure none of her mug cake recipes do. https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/11/06/one-minute-chocolate-cake/
Jenn says
Love chocolate too!! These pancakes look so delicious def have to try making some!!!