Nutella stuffed pancakes (eggless with vegan option)

The weekend we had a day at home to potter about and try to organise the house.  Some messy corners were tamed and regular chores done, I found some time to read my book and Sylvia went to the park with a friend, but best of all was starting the day with fluffy pancakes oozing with a blob of decadent Nutella in the middle.

Last winter I first tried making these stuffed nutella pancakes with a favourite banana oat pancake recipe.  With nutella in the house this weekend, Sylvia requested it for breakfast.  I tweaked the pancakes we often make (based on Vegan Brunch) and nutella worked so much better in these.  In fact I wasn't going to blog it but I just loved how fluffy these pancakes were that I wanted to make notes of what I did.

Of course, as I said last time that I posted about this idea, you could put nutella in the middle of any favourite pancake mixture.  I highly recommend trying it in the middle of these fluffy pancakes.  As the pancake mixture is vegan, you could easily make it vegan by using a chocolate spread in the middle.

Check out more nutella recipes and ideas at Green Gourmet Giraffe.

Nutella Stuffed Pancakes
Adapted from Vegan Brunch
Makes about 8 pancakes

1 cup plain white flour
1/2 cup plain wholemeal flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 cup soy milk
2 tbsp maple syrup
2 tbsp canola oil
1 tsp vanilla essence

To cook:
margarine for frying
1/3-1/2 cup nutella (or chocolate spread)

Mix all ingredients together.  (You can mix dry and wet ingredients separately and then mix or you could mix them in a blender but I just put them in in order that I listed them.)

Heat a frypan to medium to medium high heat.  Rub a knob of about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of margarine to cover frypan (I use a teaspoon to do this.) 

Drop heaped dessertspoonfuls of mixture on frypan and use the back of the spoon to spread each as much as possible into a circle.  Drop a heaped teaspoon on nutella in the middle of each pancake and cover with as much pancake mixture needed so you can't see any nutella.  Fry for a few minutes until pancakes looks cooked (the texture will dry out a little and there might be a few bubbles).  Flip over and use an eggflipper (spatula) to flatten slightly.  Cook another minute or two until cooked through and remove to a plate.  Best eaten warm.

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