Banana Pancakes with Coconut Syrup

We play a game in my family called "Guess the Secret Ingredient." This works best with pancakes as anyone can easily modify a recipe and sneak in something interesting. Then the rest of us have to guess what the mystery ingredient is. Here is one of our favorite pancake recipes...but, the secret ingredient is in the syrup. I've just substituted coconut oil for the butter in our buttermilk syrup recipe. If you really want the butter, just substitute half out for coconut oil and have a ~50% healthier recipe! We also substitute coconut oil for oil in waffles. Yummy!

Banana Buttermilk Pancakes

1 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup buttermilk

1/4 - 1/3 cup milk 

(add enough to get pouring consistency)

2 lg eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 ripe banana, mashed

Mix dry ingredients. Add rest of ingredients and mix until blended. 

Coconut Buttermilk Syrup

1/2 cup coconut oil

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 tsp Karo syrup 

Bring to a boil in a large pan.

Remove from heat and stir in:

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

Mixture will fizz and double in size. Serve hot over warm pancakes.

(Be sure to grease griddle with coconut oil!)