Chocolate Chip Cookie Bread

Ingredients:

5 T butter, melted and cooled completely
2/3 C sugar
1 t vanilla
1/4 t salt
1 C vanilla yogurt
1 egg
3/4 t baking powder
3/4 t baking soda
1 1/2 C flour
3/4 C chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine butter, sugar, vanilla, salt, yogurt and egg.
Mix well.
Stir in baking soda and baking powder.
Add flour and mix until just combined.
Fold in chocolate chips.

Grease a loaf pan, and fill it with batter. Bake bread for 55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Submitted by:  Caroline G.

Whole Wheat Chocolate Pancakes

Makes 12-16 full-sized pancakes

Ingredients:

• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup raw sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2 1/4 cups buttermilk (or make your own...1 cup milk with 1 tablespoon or vinegar or lemon juice - let it sit for 5 mins.  Make what you need).
• 4 Tablespoons butter, melted
• 4 Tablespoons brewed coffee
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions:

Combine flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, combine beaten eggs, buttermilk, melted butter, coffee and vanilla.

Add wet mixture to the dry ingredients and fold in with a spatula until just combined. Allow the mixture to set for a few minutes to thicken.

Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Melt a teaspoon of butter in the pan. Ladle 1/4 cup of batter into the pan and cook pancakes until small bubbles begin to form on the surface. Flip and cook one to two minutes more. Transfer to a serving plate and repeat for the remaining batter.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.

To Freeze:

Lay cooled pancakes on a cookie sheet in a single layer and freeze for one to two hours. Remove from pan and stack in a ziptop bag. Seal tightly and freeze for up to a month.

To serve: Remove from freezer and warm in the microwave on high for one to two minutes, warm on a cookie sheet in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes or heat in a toaster oven.

Submitted by:  Caroline G.
Recipe adapted from February/March 2011 issue of Kiwi magazine.