Paleo Pancakes (coconut flour)

So I've tried many, many paleo pancake recipes, and to be honest, they weren't that great. They were edible and I did make them, but it was always a bit disappointing. They didn't hold together well and they were grainy. But I had always made almond flour pancakes. I'm not sure why I was nervous about trying coconut flour pancakes... but I was. Until now! I made these pancakes this morning and they were by far the best paleo pancakes I've ever made! They held together like a normal pancake, they had the texture of a normal pancake! They weren't overly heavy and they puffed up like a normal pancake! Usually the almond flour pancakes didn't seem to puff up very much. Also, because they were nut-based, I found them really filling, but to the point that I was uncomfortable after eating them. My system doesn't seem to handle large amounts of nuts well, and it's not great to eat too many nuts because of the high omega 6's. But coconut fats are really good for you and the flour has lots of fibre!

Ingredients:

• 4 eggs, room temperature
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp maple syrup (or honey)
• 1/2 cup coconut flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• Coconut oil for the frying pan

Directions:

Beat the eggs until fluffy, then beat in the coconut milk and vanilla. 

Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl, making sure there are no lumps in the coconut flour (sift if necessary). Pour the dry ingredients into the wet and beat until it thickens. It made about 10 small pancakes for us.

This recipe also got a big thumbs up from Brad who just shouted "Great pancakes! These are the best ones so far!"

The only changes I made to the recipe was to use maple syrup instead of honey, and I added 1/2 tsp of cinnamon. I love cinnamon and I always add it to my pancakes. If you don't like cinnamon, then just leave it out.

In the future I'd like to try making this a "buttermilk" pancake... not sure yet how to accomplish that with coconut milk. I also foresee a waffle recipe coming out of this recipe!

Other sources of this recipe:
Nourishing Days - The original recipe, this is who developed the recipe
PaleoSpirit - This one has a nutritional breakdown of the differences between the coconut flour and wheat flour
Paleo Pancakes - This is where I came across the recipe