I made banana crumpets as my choice for The Secret Recipe Club.
Take a look at this inspiring recipe for ♥ Banana Crumpets ♥ from Lavender and Lime #LavenderAndLime Share on X
At the end of January, two things happened which were serendipitous. The first was that when I went to get my daily banana out of the fruit bowl, I noticed that all of them were over ripe. Our summer days are very hot, with temperatures well over 30 ºC (86º F). This means that fruit does not last very long when left open to the elements. The second thing that happened was that my Secret Recipe Club assignment landed in my inbox. This month I was given Our Eating Habits as the blog I had to find a recipe from. Jamie says “why waste time on bad food” – and I agree! While I was doing computer work I randomly selected categories and read the post titles. There was no doubt in my mind that the banana pecan pancakes were meant to be made by me! I have called these crumpets as in South Africa, pancakes are thin – more like crêpes. Crumpets are thicker and more like drop scones or pikelets. To make these crumpets I have adapted the recipe to suit our tastes and what was in my fridge that needed using up! I am not particularly fond of cooked pecans so I left them out all together. Then, I also had some yoghurt which was about to turn so instead of shopping for buttermilk, I made these with yoghurt. I also halved the original recipe and this made enough for breakfast for two days! Dave does not like cooked whole bananas so I was quite impressed when he liked these. We served them with some jam but you could serve them with fresh fruit like in the photograph.
do you eat bananas?
Banana Crumpets
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 250 mls mashed banana (I used 3)
- 250 mls yoghurt
- 130 g flour
- 30 g fructose
- 30 mls canola oil
- 5 mls baking powder
- 2.5 mls bicarbonate of soda
- 1.25 mls fine salt
- 1.25 mls ground cinnamon
Method
- Beat the eggs in large bowl using a fork until
- Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well
- Heat a crêpe pan and spray with cook and bake or wipe with a bit of oil
- Using a 30ml measuring spoon, drop the mixture onto the pan leaving space for spreading
- When bubbles form and the bottom is cooked, turn over
- Continue to cook until they are no longer squishy to the touch
- Serve hot
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What I blogged:
- one year ago – Friday’s Food Quiz Number 10
- two years ago – Challenge To Use Venison
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I had a habit for years of having a banana for breakfast.
they are nature’s antidepressant so I try and eat one a day 🙂
Lovely crumpet recipe Tandy.
🙂 Mandy
thank you Mandy 🙂
They look yummy! So glad you liked them. Interesting, that you call them crumpets, I love it!
I love the different names we all give to the same things 🙂
What a delicious way to start the morning my friend, wonderfully made 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
They were the perfect way to start the morning Uru 🙂
I love the use of banana and yogurt together! So yummy!
even alone that would be a good breakfast 🙂
These look postively delicious! Great SRC choice!
thank you Melissa 🙂
They look fantastic, Tandy! You made great use of those bananas 😉
thank you Giovanna 🙂
I always am looking for ways to use up over-ripe bananas! I can’t wait to try these!
it is such a great way to use them up!
I love this recipe, as I could easily make this dairy-free and use soy yogurt for my milk allergy kiddo. Looks delightful and I think I could toss in a few chocolate chips and my kids would eat it up!
With chocolate chips added it should be a winner! Please let me know how the soy yoghurt works 🙂
I’ve never had crumpets before so this will be very interesting to try =)
let me know what you think of them Squishy 🙂
Yum! They look delicious Tandy. I absolutely love crumpets and love the idea of adding banana to the batter.
they were so inspiring that I made some banana cake yesterday 🙂
Oh my! I eat a banana a day, not like this! Looks delicious and I am definitely preparing them soon 🙂
This is a lovely way to eat banana’s 🙂
I love banana pancakes. Lately though my family has been finishing the bananas off before they get ripe enough for me to make anything with them. I guess I need to buy extra next time! 🙂 Your pancakes turned out looking delicious.
thank you April! I buy a few at a time so that they don’t go ripe if everything goes to plan. I think even just ripe bananas would be good in this recipe 🙂
Banana-infused treats are the best! These sound awesome.
thank you Joanne – I am on a banana baking mission at the moment 🙂
Love the fresh fruit on these! I so want them for breakfast! My son loves making things like this, I know he will go crazy for it!
this is a great dish for kids to make as there is very little that can go wrong 🙂
i LOVE bananas. and i love crumpets! yummo! x
then you will love these!
Lovely looking crumpets! I love bananas!!
Thank you Sophie 🙂
I love bananas, and pancakes with bananas sound 10 times better! I can’t wait to try them.
let me know what you think once you have made them Teri 🙂
I absolutely eat bananas! These crumpets look tasty!
thank you Yummychunklet 🙂
I do eat bananas but haven’t baked with them in ages. Two of my kids aren’t very fond of them.
I think it is a textural thing with kids Tammy – and I see comment luv is still not working for you 🙁 Will go and deactivate it and re-install it and see if that works 🙂
What a great idea Tandy and great that they didn’t go to waste. Sometimes I end up waiting for days for the bananas to ripen in a paper bag so that I can use them for cooking 🙂
I have never tried to ripen ours but I have tried that trick with avos, with little success 🙂
Yum! We make banana pecan pancakes quite often at our house. Yours look great!
thank you Sarah 🙂
Hi Tandy–i just got told by son not to give him any banana that has the slightest of brown marks–because by them he has had it–it is always half brown–& to soft
You crumpets look great
I cannot stand soft bananas Usha! Thanks for the compliment 🙂
Looks delicious! Great SRC choice!
thank you Lisa 🙂
Ahh, crumpets, pancakes, crepes – whatever they are called, I’m in love. Look forward to trying out your version soon. Glad to learn about your blog via SRC – where in South Africa do you live? The best trip of my life was a week visit to your country – just gorgeous.
So nice to meat you Deanna! I live in a fishing village called Gordons Bay, 65km outside of Cape Town. Where did you visit? Let me know how these turn out for you 🙂
I love bananas! Such a great recipe.
thank you Natalie, and I am off to go and read your bread recipe 🙂
Lovely and looks delicious! Great way to start your day.
thank you Barbara 🙂
Lovely! Great way to start your day!
very healthy in my opinion!
These sound absolutely delishous
Thanks Mel, I loved them!