Easy to Make Oatmeal Pancakes: A Healthy Breakfast for Your Sweetheart
A Special Breakfast for A Special Occasion

How does spoiling your loved ones with flourless, refined sugar-free and fruity oatmeal pancakes sound? If not often, at least on special occasions, such as a birthday or Valentine’s Day?
Whenever you feel like showing your love on a healthy plate, this breakfast recipe will do just that. Be assured that the beneficiary will appreciate and enjoy your effort!
Healthy oatmeal pancakes are an excellent substitute for getting out of your porridge routine; even more when the occasion is special. So why not spoil your sweetheart on a Valentine’s Day morning with some heart-shaped pancakes and a steamy cappuccino?
Not that a freshly made bunch of pancakes would not appeal to children, too.
So, dads/husbands/boyfriends/elderly sons of the world, this recipe is for you to make on a cosy morning or a holiday alike and enjoy with the special ones in your lives!
Of course, you could show the love in many ways for the entire duration of the day, and find inspiration for various meals to cook or activities to do in this Valentine’s Day round-up.
To start the day, you can surprise anybody by preparing a special breakfast that is healthy and easy to make at the same time.
Use oats as a substitute for flour and whatever fruits you can find in the fridge or cupboards, or even pick fresh from your garden if you are lucky to have one and the right weather for ripe berries.
Substitute sugar with an extra ripe banana. You would not only add the health benefits of a largely underestimated fruit, but will stay away of refined or excess sugar too.
Just make sure to get up before the rest of the household and preferably grind the oats the night before. If you manage to limit the noise factor and alert the entire family of your intentions, you’ll save the surprise element, an essential part of this recipe!
Have fun making these healthy oatmeal pancakes and enjoy savouring them with your loved ones!

Ingredients for Easy Oatmeal Pancakes:
Organic oats
An extra ripe banana
Organic coconut sugar
Almond milk
Organic eggs
Spices (cinnamon, cloves, ginger)
Orange zest (always choose organic to avoid pesticides and wax in peel!)
Salt
Fresh/dried fruits
Maple syrup (look for a grade A one, if possible)
Method:
Grind the oats using any grinding machine. I used a Nutribullet; it was quick, efficient and available!
Peel the banana and crush it using a fork. Remember, the riper the banana, the sweeter the taste!
Add the sugar, spices and egg yolks. Mix using a hand-held mixer until it becomes creamy, then add the milk and incorporate well with a spoon. Add the ground oats and mix again.
Separately, add some salt to the egg whites. Beat with a hand-held mixer at high speed until they form stiff peaks. Add to the creamy mixture and stir slowly until it becomes homogenous.
Optionally, add a handful of seasonal fruit. I used dried goji berries, dried cranberries and raisins. The frozen strawberries created a good effect for the images, but they took a while to defrost.
Preheat a pan and add a few drops of rapeseed oil or coconut oil.
If you have a shaped gadget or a heart-shaped pan, use it. If not, place one spoonful of the mixture into the heated pan. Cook for two minutes, then flip over and cook for another two minutes or until ready.
When cooked, transfer the first oatmeal pancake on a plate and repeat the process until you use the entire mixture.
Enjoy!

Valentine’s Day Healthy Pancakes
Ingredients
- 200 g organic oats
- 200 ml almond milk
- 1 piece banana extra ripe
- 1 tbsp organic coconut sugar
- 2 pcs eggs
- ½ tsp cinnamon ground
- ½ tsp cloves ground
- ½ tsp ginger ground
- ½ tsp organic orange zest
- 1 pinch of salt
- 100 ml grade A maple syrup
- seasonal fruit
Instructions
- Grind the oats using any grinding machine. I used a Nutribullet; it was quick and efficient (and available!)
- Peel the banana and crush it using a fork—the riper the banana, the sweeter the taste.
- Add the sugar, spices and egg yolks. Mix using a hand-held mixer until it becomes creamy.
- Add the milk and incorporate well with a spoon.
- Add the ground oats and mix again.
- Separately, add some salt to the egg whites. Beat with a hand-held mixer at high speed until they form stiff peaks.
- Add to the creamy mixture and stir slowly until it becomes homogenous.
- Optionally, add a handful of seasonal fruit.
- Preheat a pan and add a few drops of rapeseed oil or coconut oil.
- If you have a shaped gadget or a heart-shaped pan, use it. If not, place one spoonful of the mixture into the heated pan. Cook for two minutes, then flip over and cook for another two minutes or until ready.
- When cooked, transfer the first pancake on a plate and repeat the process until you use the entire mixture.
- Best served warm, with a dollop of quality maple syrup and a handful of fresh or dried fruit, depending on the season.
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My little one loves pancakes but I shy away from them, but this healthy recipe makes it easy to say yes to her!
That’s great to hear! I was in the same position, but I was unfair to the kids so I had to adjust the recipe.
These sound awesome! I can’t wait to try them. Thank you!
love the heart shaped mould for the pancakes, surely a great way to surprise everyone for a yummy hearty breakfast meal 🙂
If only my husband knew how to cook! I have a heart waffle maker, this would be fun for Valentines day. I guess I will be the one making them! Thank you!
This looks delicious!!
I’m going to need to try this out because I suck at cooking pancakes! Maybe I need to try this oat recipe instead of a flour one. I also love the idea to use a banana and almond milk, two ingredients I always have on hand.
I’m a sucker for banana pancakes and these sound amazing!
I am hungry now that I read this post
My family loves pancakes but I have never tried them with oatmeal. Now I am curious how they would taste compared to flour-based pancakes. I will have to give these a try sometime soon. They look delicious and easy to make.
This looks delicious (and healthy!) — win-win all around. Thanks for sharing!
YUM, I cannot wait to try these!!
Healthy and mouth-watering. Great recipe. Also enjoy the encouragement for other family members to do the cooking.
Yep! I decided I deserve food made by others sometimes!:))
Yummy! Looks delicious, can’t wait to try them.
Yum, I can’t wait to try! These look so good and I love the idea of making them heart shaped for a special breakfast!
Okay this just sounds amazing!!! I’m gonna have to try it!
Yum! I never would have thought of using oatmeal to make pancakes – how creative! These looks and sound so delicious, especially with the cloves, ginger, and orange zest.
Oh my gosh I can’t wait to try these!! They look so amazing!
Very interesting! Could you use quick cooking oatmeal? That’s what I have at my house. Thanks for sharing the idea!
I’m not sure if the consistency changes with different oats, but that can easily be sorted with extra milk if necessary. If you try with quick-cooking oatmeal, please let me know if you needed to use anything else. Thanks!:)
Yum! This recipes looks super easy to make! Definitely will be saving for later!
I can eat pancakes all day because I love them so much, but then I feel bad after because they’re not healthy for you, lol! This recipe is perfect because it’s so healthy for you, and I love that you use ripe bananas as substitutes for sugar. I love your recipes!
Thank you so much!:)
These sound yummy! And healthy – bonus!
I can’t wait to try these! I love pancakes! These look so tender too.
My kiddos are pancake monsters, so I know they would enjoy these any time of year. What a delicious recipe!
Love how you swapped flour for oats! It’s such a great alternative and packed with nutrition.
great recipe. love the fact that u swapped sugar for a banana!! all in all, i think it was an AWESOME way to put love into breakfast 🙂
I’m reading this and I haven’t had breakfast yet. I’m salivating. Love the idea for swapping out sugar for the banana 🌸 YUM