When I was a little girl, my mother took me to Europe, just the two of us, for a special mother-daughter experience. We stopped in Paris, which is undoubtedly one of the most magical cities in the world. We saw the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, walked up and down the Champs Elysee, witnessed the elegant style of Parisian women and were introduced to Nutella. We didn’t eat a lot of sweets in our house growing up, so being allowed to enjoy this heavenly chocolate hazelnut spread on vacation with my mom was an irresistible, special treat.
I don’t buy Nutella very often. If I did, the kids would get so obsessed they’d probably ask me to bathe them in it. So when I do use it, my family knows it’s a special occasion. In these pancakes, the addition of Nutella takes them from good to unbelievably scrumptious. They’re obviously aren’t on the every day rotation of breakfast items in our house, but when I do make these pancakes, the experience of eating them reminds me of a spectacular culinary adventure enjoyed with my mom.
Why not try them this Valentine’s Day for breakfast? The kids and my hubby are waking up to them for sure!
Nutella Pancakes with Raspberry Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 Cup all purpose flour
- 2 Tsp baking powder
- 1/2 Tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 Cup Nutella
- 1 large egg
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 1/4 Cup milk
- oil
Instructions
- Whisk the first 3 ingredients in a bowl.
- In a separate bowl whisk the Nutella, egg and sugar until combined, then whisk in the milk until incorporated.
- Whisk the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined (it’s ok if there are a few lumps).
- Heat a large sauté pan or griddle over medium heat and grease with oil.
- Pour about 1/4 cup of the pancake mixture onto the griddle and cook for 2-3 minutes on each side.
- Serve with raspberry sauce.
- * You can keep pancakes warm on a sheet tray in a 250 degree oven until all the pancakes are cooked.
If you want an all natural Nutella check-out Nut-Tritious Foods Hazelnut & Chocolate blend. It’s first ingredient is fresh roasted hazelnuts and made with sunflower seeds, organic flax seed meal, 87% dark cocoa powder and organic agave nectar. Better than the chocolate crisco blend – and good for you !!!
Can you use fresh raspberries? If so, do you make it the same way?
here’s to hoping I can scrape out 1/4 cup of nutella out of the container Monday morning lol.
I made these this morning, huge hit! I had a very ripe banana hanging around so I threw that in, was delicious. Didn’t have any raspberries so I served them with vanilla yogurt & fresh strawberries. Thanks for the fabulous start to our Sunday!
yup 🙂 that would be fine. You can use any kind of berry.
Do you think the raspberries be substituted with frozen strawberries? I’m not a fan of raspberries! (idk why?) Strawberries and nutella sounds good to me 🙂
We tried these pancakes last weekend and loved it! We loved the texture of the pancakes. It was a fun treat for the family. I’m definitely going to check out the tips for homemade nutella for a more natural version. I’m all about homemade! Thanks!
These pancakes were delicious! I agree much healthier than the frozen store bought pancakes that many kids eat! Thanks!
“dinner with julie” has a wonderful homemade nutella recipe on her website today. Much healthier then the store bought version and easy to make! Definitely going to try these pan cakes tomorrow 🙂
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Thanks Mara! I thought it was Italian too. I studied abroad in Italy and EVERYTHING has hazelnuts in it…so much so that I can barely tolerate the smell of nutela. My kids love it though, so I buy it! Taking one for the team.
Hi Mary….first of all thank you for coming to my blog and comnnmtieg. I appreciate it more than you know. This fudge looks wonderful. I make a similar one but have never put nutella or hazelnuts in it. My children love nutella so I am going to have to try this. I know they will love it.Also I love your photo of your one bite header. Beautiful and it catches your eye. And I like how you have put recipes from a year ago and two years ago at the end of your post. Being a new blogger I am looking for ways to make my blog better. And I think this is good. So in a year I may do that. I haven’t been able to do my own headers yet, (my daughter has had to really help me with it) because I’m still learning to get around blogger. But yours is really great. You are a pro!!Nann
Delicious recipe! By the way, Nutella is an Italian product, not French… 🙂
Here is another yummy alternative to Nutella, if your kids can have peanuts. Peanut Butter & Co. brand makes a chocolate & peanut butter spread called “Dark Chocolate Dreams”. It is even available at Wal-Mart here in Oklahoma, so I am sure that you can get it just about anywhere. Here is a link to it: http://ilovepeanutbutter.com/darkchocolatedreams.html
The only ingredients are: peanuts, evaporated cane juice, cocoa, cocoa butter, palm fruit oil, vanilla, lecithin (from sunflowers), and salt.
I know there may be concerns about the effects on the local communities to harvesing palm oil and it doesn’t say the cocoa is from free trade cocoa beans, so I am going to assume they are not, but it is still better than nutella where the first ingredient is sugar.
If it is a concern for you PB & co. is a member of Green Palm, which offers a certificate trading program designed to tackle environmental and social problems created by the production of palm oil. Under this program, they are able to reward palm oil producers by paying them for an equivalent amount of palm oil that they have produced sustainably and responsibly.
Also, even thought the first ingredient is peanuts, the cocoa flavor is definitely predominant.
BTW, Nutella’s ingredients are: sugar, palm oil, hazelnuts, cocoa, skim milk, reduced minerals whey (milk), lecithin as emulsifier (soy), vanillin: an artificial flavor.
I just came back to your bake sale post last night to get some inspiration for ceoikos to send Nick at college. A fabulous resource! These ceoikos would be perfect, too YUM!
Although I don’t think a little Nutella every once in while will hurt anyone, I really appreciate the suggestions for alternatives that don’t contain van1llin.
I’m definitely making these pancakes! My kids are going to flip!