Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store matchups, coupons, and sales. Earlier this week I picked up granola and applesauce on sale at Target, which came together nicely to form Cinnamon Granola Applesauce Pancake Bites!
This recipe is a variation on a theme I keep messing with, joining its predecessors Gluten Free Dairy Free Blueberry Pancake Bites and Pineapple Bacon Pancake Bites. (Choices, it’s good to have choices!) In today’s recipe, applesauce substitutes for the egg in the other two varieties to create a vegan alternative.
- Note: These are both wheat free and dairy free. The particular brand of granola I used here, however, is not certified gluten free — but you could easily substitute a gluten free variety (such as cinnamon Enjoy Life granola) to make a gluten free version.
Cinnamon Granola Applesauce Pancake Bites
Ingredients
1 cup brown rice flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 Tbsp maple syrup
3/4 cup vanilla soy milk
1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 Tbsp vegetable or canola oil
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup cinnamon granola
Cooking spray (to grease muffin tin)
Directions
In large bowl, stir together rice flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Add applesauce, oil, maple syrup, vanilla, and vanilla soy milk and mix until well blended. Pour batter into greased mini muffin tin. Top each with cinnamon granola* and bake at 350 degrees for 16 minutes, or until butter knife inserted in the center comes out clean. (These won’t get very brown, so don’t rely on that for a measure of done-ness.)
* Note: I used granola which contained cranberries, but just used the granola itself as a topping, not the cranberries.
Let cool in pan for a couple of minutes, then remove to wire rack — or enjoy piping hot!
These smell really good
There’s nothing like the smell of warm apple and cinnamon… Cinnamon Granola Applesauce Pancake Bites are best enjoyed the first day, as the granola topping gets soggy when stored. Makes 24 pancake bites.
- For another applesauce & cinnamon recipe idea, check out Cinnamon Applesauce Muffins from the most recent Frugal Homemade. (That one, though, contains both dairy and wheat.)
Easy print version
Cinnamon Granola Applesauce Pancake Bites (wheat free, vegan)
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown rice flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp maple syrup
- 3/4 cup vanilla soy milk
- 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 Tbsp vegetable or canola oil
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup cinnamon granola
- Cooking spray to grease muffin tin
Instructions
- In large bowl, stir together rice flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
- Add applesauce, oil, maple syrup, vanilla, and vanilla soy milk and mix until well blended.
- Pour batter into greased mini muffin tin.
- Top each with cinnamon granola* and bake at 350 degrees for 16 minutes, or until butter knife inserted in the center comes out clean. (These won’t get very brown, so don’t rely on that for a measure of done-ness.) * Note: I used granola which contained cranberries, but just used the granola itself as a topping, not the cranberries.
- Let cool in pan for a couple of minutes, then remove to wire rack -- or enjoy piping hot!