How to Make Coconut Flour Pancakes (Gluten free, Grain free, Paleo)

Be sure and check out our GIVEAWAY while you're here.

Whether or not you are on a grain-free diet, you will love these pancakes. Brian doesn't typically like the flavor of coconut, but even he loved these. The recipe is from one of my favorite grain-free cookbooks, Cooking with Coconut Oil by Elizabeth Nyland. The author blogs at GuiltyKitchen.com where she shares healthy living tips and writes about her Paleo lifestyle. Her book is beautiful and contains lots of wonderful gluten-free and grain-free recipes, including new twists on old favorites. 

These pancakes are really, really good. And, what's even better, they are very filling and very nourishing. I also loved how easy they are to make. Even Little Owl can help me make them (and actually help... rather than, you know... what two year olds normally do in the kitchen...). ;) Every recipe I've tried from this book so far has been simple to make and delicious. There are a few ingredients for this recipe in particular that I didn't have on hand in my kitchen (hemp hearts and flax seeds) but they were very easy to find online or at my local health food store. 

If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking out both Nyland's book, Cooking with Coconut Oil and her blog. Whether or not your family is grain-free makes no difference, you will love the recipes in this book. There are pictures for almost every recipe, too, which I find really helpful since I am a very visual person... but you don't want to look through this book when you're hungry! :)

Now, without further ado... the recipe you all came here to see:

Coconut Pancakes 

from Cooking with Coconut Oil by Elizabeth Nyland

Yield: 18 pancakes

• 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted (where I buy)
• 1/4 cup nut butter (such as almond, cashew, or macadamia)
• 2 tbsp honey or maple syrup (optional)
• 4 pastured eggs
• 1 tbs pure vanilla extract (make your own!)
• 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
• 3 tbs coconut flour (where I buy)
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tbsp ground golden flax (I buy whole and grind my own so it's fresh)
• 1 tbsp hemp hearts (where to find) 
• 3 tbsp mini chocolate chips (optional) (where to find)
• Coconut oil (for frying; optional) 

1. In a large bowl, mix the coconut oil and nut butter until smooth. Mix in honey or syrup if using. 
2. Beat in the eggs one at a time until combined completely.
3. Whisk in the vanilla extract and apple cider vinegar and set aside.
4. In a separate bowl, mix the coconut flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder, flax, hemp hearts, and chocolate chips, if using.
5. Place a nonstick or cast-iron pan on the stove and heat on medium-low (preheat it for a good few minutes). Melt the coconut oil in the pan if using. When the pan is hot, mix the wet ingredients with the dry and drop by spoonful into the pan. 
6. Cook each pancake until bubbles form and pop. Flip pancake over and cook until done, about 2 to 3 minutes total per cake. Serve immediately or cool and freeze on baking trays. 

Want to know where I buy QUALITY COCONUT products?

Feeling lucky? Enter to win a copy of Cooking with Coconut Oil below! Thanks so much to Elizabeth Nyland and her publisher for hosting this giveaway! So excited for one of you to get to own this awesome book, too! <3

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Like what you read? Be sure and follow LittleOwlCrunchyMomma on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Google+

(Note: This post might contain affiliate links. Meaning, if you shop around after clicking on them, you might be helping to support my blogging endeavors. Thank you!)
This post shared at:
Simple Meals Friday, Party Brunch Link Party, Fight Back Friday, Link Party Palooza, Little House Friday DIY Linky, From the Farm Friday, Get Real Link Party Fridays, Best of the Weekend, Creativity Unleashed, Family Fun Friday, Foodie Friday, Friday Pin Fest, Gluten Free Fridays, Family Fun, Strut Your Stuff, Savoring Saturdays, Simple Saturday

Jackson's Honest Chips: Review and GIVEAWAY ($59.88 VALUE)

Be sure and check out our current GIVEAWAY while you're here.

I have a confession.

I love chips. 

And when I say love, I mean love, as in close to worship.... Of all the foods I have given up since switching to a diet full of "real food" (as opposed to processed cr**) giving up chips is something I've done... sometimes.

Sure, I choose the organic, non-gmo versions of chips... but they are still chips. They are still made with rancid vegetable oils which I really, really, really should not be putting in my body.

So discovering Jackson's Honest Chips was a BIG. DEAL. 

It's coconut oil, baby!

What's different about these chips? They are fried in coconut oil! Goodbye rancid vegetable oil. Hello goodness. We have all heard the health benefits of coconut oil, even if not everyone understands just how bad vegetable oils are for our health....

The ingredient list on Jackson's Honest Chips reads as follows: organic potatoes, organic coconut oil and sea salt. That's it, folks. Honest, to honest, goodness. And only that.

I know they are better for me... But how do they taste? 

So what do chips fried in coconut oil taste like? Well, let's be honest, they taste different than what you are used to potato chips tasting like. There is a definite flavor difference. Vegetable oils are processed, denatured, stripped, and destroyed until they are a lifeless, death-giving, tasteless, rancid version of something our ancestors would have never recognized as food.

Coconut oil, however, has a taste, a flavor, it has character. So, yes, these chips taste different than your regular potato chips. And they are delicious. It took me three or four chips to adjust to the flavor difference... but than I had no problem eating four bags over less than two days. (Did I just say that? That's embarrassing....)

I already have so many ways I love to use coconut oil every day, I guess I can add eating chips to that list! And I highly recommend you do, too.

All in the family...

While I am sharing with you things I love about Jackson's Honest Chips, let me add one more thing. This company is legit, folks. They are a family. They are not some mass corporation that puts a picture of a family on their product to make it look like they are a family business, they truly are a small (very small) family business. Hop on over to their website and read their "our story" page and I promise you will fall in love with them just like I did.

And once you learn the story of how these chips came about you will want to help support this amazing family even more! These parents are unbelievably inspiring.

There you have it. That's my review. Now order yourself some chips. And while you're at it, enter to win a WHOLE case below!

Athena loves Jackson's Honest Chips just as much as I do! She's savoring her bite. 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Note: a big thank you to Jackson's mom, Megan, for sending me some chips to review and for giving away some of her wonderful product for one of you to enjoy as well. <3 

(Magic-less) Magic Hard Shell Topping

Check out our current GIVEAWAY while you're here. 

Because yesterday marked the two month anniversary of LittleOwlCrunchyMomma, because I love chocolate and because you know I love coconut oil, today I am sharing with you my FAVORITE thing to make with coconut oil as well as my new favorite brand of coconut oil... and a chance for you to WIN some.

(Magic-less) Magic Hard Shell Chocolate Topping

You Will Need:

1/4 Cup Gold label Virgin Coconut Oil (Where to buy.)

3 Tbs cocoa powder 

1 Tbs honey

1/2 tsp vanilla

Serves 4-6 

To start, measure out your delicious, heavenly coconut oil.

Add all ingredients (except vanilla) to a small sauce pan. Melt over lowest possible setting, stirring constantly. 

When completely melted, stir in vanilla. 

Spoon from bottom of sauce pan onto ice cream. Enjoy!

Crunchy, chocolate-y, coconut-y, delicious, wholesome, yum!

THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED. Check out our current giveaway.

Tropical Traditions is America’s source for coconut oil. Their Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil is hand crafted in small batches by family producers, and it is the highest quality coconut oil they offer. You can read more about how virgin coconut oil is different from other coconut oils on their website: What is Virgin Coconut Oil?

You can also watch the video they produced about Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil:

Tropical Traditions also carries other varieties of affordable high quality coconut oil. Visit their website to check on current sales, to learn about the many uses of coconut oil, and to read about all the advantages of buying coconut oil online. Since the FDA does not want us to discuss the health benefits of coconut oil on a page where it is being sold or given away, here is the best website to read about the health benefits of coconut oil.

Disclaimer: Tropical Traditions provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose.  Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product.

(Note: this post contains affiliate links. Meaning, if you shop after clicking on these links, you just might be helping to support my blogging endeavors. Thank you!) 

Like what you read? Be sure and follow LittleOwlCrunchyMomma on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Google+.

15 Ways I Use Coconut Oil Every Day

Be sure and check out our GIVEAWAY while you're here. 

If I were a poet I would compose a love poem to coconut oil. It might start something like this: "Oh, Coconut Oil, how I love thee. Let me count the ways." 

I know, right? Terrible. Thankfully for you I am not a poet. So I won't bore you. But I will tell you how I use coconut oil every day. Maybe some of these ideas you already know about. Maybe some will be new. Maybe I've left out some. But regardless, here are

15 Ways I Use Coconut Oil Every Day

• Put it on my legs before shaving in the shower rather than using scary Shaving Cream.
• Slather it on after a shower instead of spending time making or buying expensive Body Lotion.
• Use it in place of rancid vegetable oils in Baking.
• Use it for Popping Popcorn instead of vegetable oil. 
• Use it for Sauteing delicious veggies.
• Use it as an all-natural Lubricant for the lady region. (Don't worry.... it's in a different bottle than the one for kitchen use...) 
• Take it by the spoonful as Appetite Regulator
• Mix it with a little bit of baking soda to make a super easy, cheap, effective, natural Deodorant
• Use it as the base for making homemade Chocolate. 
• Use it as a natural Gel if my hair gets fly-aways.
• Place a bit on the ends of my hair for a natural Conditioner.
• As a replacement for Nipple Cream for us lactating mothers.
• Sometimes as Baby Lotion instead of my beloved olive oil.
• As Face Lotion.
• As a quick Lip Balm.

There you go. That's 15 ways I use coconut oil every day. 

My favorite COCONUT OIL? See it here.

What are some ways you use coconut oil?

Shared on: Your Sunday Best, Sharing Time, It's Party Time, Sugar Free Sunday, Link and Learn, Barn Hop, Busy Mondays, Flour Me, Monday Mania, Morristribe, Sweet Sharing, Inspire Me, Green Tuesday, Tiny Tip, Naturally Nifty, Healthy2Day, Mommy Club, Natural Living, Blog Stalker, Your Green Resource, Show Off Your Stuff(Note: this post contains affiliate links. Meaning, if you shop after clicking on these links, you just might be helping to support my blogging endeavors. Thank you!) 

Like what you read? Be sure and follow LittleOwlCrunchyMomma on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, or Google+.