Mornings are the best part of my day, especially weekend mornings when there is no rush and the whole family gets to enjoy breakfast together.

During the week, I often have dinner leftovers in the morning to rely on (assuming that our kids did not beat me to the refrigerator and ate them all ☺) or I grab one of our Hot Cereals. But, on weekends I try to make our breakfasts a bit more special. As a mom, I’m always thinking of new ways to get my kids to eat healthy by trying different AIP breakfast recipes, but my critical teenage son Adrian could always tell they were AIP. I knew I was going to need to get creative to fool him.

We were all craving pancakes one morning so I took inspiration fromThriving on Paleo’s creator, Michele Spring. She herself suffers from an autoimmune disease, so she is SO knowledgeable about all things AIP.

Her pancakes are amazing, but I was short on cassava flour. I had a bulk bag of the Wild Zora AIP Classic Hot Cereal so I improvised and out came the most amazing, fluffy, not-at-all-gummy pancakes the whole family loved, including Adrian! He had NO idea they were AIP-friendly ☺ (I win!) AND the absolute best part ...all you need is a simple blender (no bowls, or mixing spoons to clean up) and a hot pan for cooking!

Because these pancakes fit into the AIP diet, they are totally egg free & dairy free, using homemade banana “buttermilk” which may sound strange but I promise it could not be easier and SO much cheaper than buying non-dairy milk in the stores!  

The key to extra fluffy pancakes is to allow the apple cider vinegar to sit for a couple minutes with your banana milk, which creates the “buttermilk” effect. ** Personal experience tip, if you’re using a single-serve blender, the creation of buttermilk will create a sort of seal so open very carefully ☺

I made these for the whole family so we didn’t have any leftovers but you could easily freeze these for meal prep for the week! Allow them to cook completely in a single layer. Once cooled you can stack them into a freezer-safe zipper bag and store them in the freezer for up to 1 month (if you can wait that long to eat them again ☺).