I’ve always loved Red Velvet. It’s my favorite cake, ice cream…everything about it I love. It would be a dirty lie if I were to tell you I only have Red Velvet pancakes during Valentine’s day time so I won’t. That being said, I think they are extra special to have around this time so I saved reposting for the tenth time this recipe until around now. I’ve actually done a bit of reworking with it to make it easier (there were far too many ingredients that I wasn’t trying to buy).
Ingredients:
½ cup flour
¼ dark cocoa powder (I am looking at you gharidelli cocoa powder heaven)
½ cup sweetener
1 egg
1 tsp baking powder
1 tablespoon red food coloring
½-1 cup milk or water depending on your preference and pancake consistancy liking.
For the topping:
I’ve also topped with vanilla yogurt which is pretty good (not cream cheese good but pretty good).
What I’ve found to the most delicious for your taste buds in the following “glaze” type ordeal.
½ cup cream cheese
½ cup sweetener…I used stevia for this…
2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons syrup
The pancakes are easy. Mix the dry to the wet ingredients adding as much (or little) liquid as you like. I tend to like thicker pancakes so I add less liquid.
The glaze is also easy…mix it all together. I’ve found melting the cream cheese (in the microwave) can get it mix easier but it’s your choice.
I’ve made many friends with this recipe and I hope you do too. Or boyfriends/girlfriends since that is what Valentine’s Day is all about…making your lover pancakes.
Question for you: Do you do anything special for Valentine’s day?
Cake for breakfast? Sure, why not? I am not a big Valentine’s Day person but I will use any excuse to justify more candy.
breakfast…lunch…dinner…all day.
A cream cheese glaze on pancakes? Definitely need to remember that one.
I picked up some lobster tails at a cheap price, so I’ll cook those up on Valentine’s Day. But the boy and I are going to save our Valentine’s Day date until Saturday and go for all you can eat sushi. Definitely looking forward to it!
Making your lover pancakes- haha! I love that. I think Craig would love that idea too
Oh man this recipe is almost too easy for me not to try to make. When you add sweetener to them do they taste sweet? I usually don’t taste a lot of sweetness in pancake mixes until I add the syrup on top but I’m sure they have some sort of sugar in them somehow.
I’m thinking I may make these for myself for valentines day. The life of a single girl lol
I’ve never had a problem with too much sweetener. I’ll make them for myself as the life of a distance girl. Whatever that means…LOL.
Nothing special happening on Valentine’s Day for me. Guess I could treat myself to some chocolate or something?
Yum! I need to try Ghirardelli cocoa powder. Admittedly I’m on the Hershey’s train for that one. But I recently tried Ghirardelli’s dark chocolate chips and I’m hooooked!
No special Vday plans for me. SIngle girl swaggin’. Haaaaha.
I have Ghiradelli for special occasions. Hersheys is way cheaper but Ghiradelli is just so good!
Oh yum! I love red velvet anything… I really need to start making more pancakes. I say that every time you post one but I never do!
Mouth. Is. Salivating.
Red velvet is my favorite. My wedding cake will be red velvet even if HE is allergic or hates it. Don’t care
YUM. You rock for posting this.
YUM!!!!!
I love love cream cheese type frosting, sounds delicious
Red velvet always makes me worry that my tastebuds are wonky because… to me it just tastes like chocolate? Is there some kind of discernible taste difference? Either way, you can never go wrong with chocolate pancakes… and when cream cheese frosting is involved? It would almost be a crime to limit them to Valentine’s alone…
I think it’s just much more rich…and red. Other then that…I don’t know of too much of a difference LOL.
I’ve never been a fan of red velvet
The only thing I ever liked with the flavoring was the Crumbs cupcake I got on my birthday; otherwise, I just didn’t like it. Maybe it was the stuff I had? Idk. Make me some of your pancakes and I can see 
hahaha.
Okay consider it a date.
THESE LOOK AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG hands down red velvet is the best flavor. I need to get myself to ghiradelli dark chocolate powder! I’m not that into valentines day so I just have to work all day yay lol. I may see the BF this weekend so who knows.
You and your darn pancakes are going to drive me insane. I <3 red velvet. Please don't make any carrot cake pancakes; I'm not sure my willpower could handle it. As far as Valentine's Day goes, the hubs and I are totally boring. We typically hang out at home and pig out on grilled steak.
There is a carrot cake waffle recipe on my recipe page.
Oh crap.
I’ll probably be drinking wine and eating chocolate by myself on Valentine’s Day.
Mmmm, red velvet! So good!
I don’t think we’ll do anything special, we don’t really get each other gifts for Valentine’s Day. We spend too much money on racing, haha!
Nom. I love red velvet! I had never had red velvet anything until I started dating Jimmy because it’s his favorite flavor
My sexy love kitten has to work on Valentines day, boooo!! AND on my birthday (the day AFTER Valentines day.) So we are going to have a Valentines weekend away along with our half marathon. YAY. I want red velvet waffles..mmmm.
I said it on Twitter and I’ll say it again – Red velvet pancakes (or red velvet ANYTHING, really) means I’ve died & gone to heaven
om nom nom. I will eat these with my single-girl self on valentine’s day lol! I’m not a fan of cake or cupcakes but I love me some red=velvet flavor froyo/ice cream!
well isn’t this just a perfect recipe for valentines day week. I can’t believe I forgot to tell you, I tried your orange pancakes (left out the chocolate), and they were GREAT!
aww cute! These are perfect for Valentines day
I’ve seen so many people write about red velvet ice cream and have yet to actually see it lol
Well aren’t these just beautiful! We made red velvet waffles for Christmas and green velvet too! haha. But that glaze is what I want and ASAP! Have yoy had the red velvet pancakes at IHOP by chance?
I think I may print this out and set it on Trav’s desk…I mean it is my birthday tomorrow…