These make a great breakfast or after-school snack and are a great way to use up those bananas that have gotten a bit too ripe. Remember, if you have overripe bananas and don’t have time to bake, you can just pop them in the freezer, skins on or off. If you take the skins off, just freeze them in groups of three so you can easily pull out what you need for one batch of muffins.

3 cups whole wheat bread flour (Ross says: this is best when the flour is coarse as opposed to the whole wheat flour you get here which is fully milled. Heidi says: I used a standard whole wheat bread flour which seemed to be pretty finely milled, because that’s all I could find, even at Rainbow Foods.)

Marinating the chicken in buttermilk makes the meat moist and flavorful. Chicken breasts cook faster than other parts, so fry them separately in the last batch. For fried chicken with less fat and fewer calories, remove the skin before marinating.

Per serving: calories 315, fat 11.4g, 34% calories from fat, cholesterol 99mg, protein 42.6g, carbohydrates 7.9g, fiber 1.8g, sugar 3.6g, sodium 145mg, diet points 7.4.

Per serving: calories 203, fat 9.0g, 39% calories from fat, cholesterol 23mg, protein 1.8g, carbohydrates 29.8g, fiber 1.8g, sugar 13.2g, sodium 2mg, diet points 4.9.

Per serving: calories 206, fat 13.1g, 54% calories from fat, cholesterol 15mg, protein 10.3g, carbohydrates 14.6g, fiber 2.4g, sugar 3.8g, sodium 352mg, diet points 5.2.

Per serving: calories 215, fat 5.2g, 22% calories from fat, cholesterol 82mg, protein 34.2g, carbohydrates 6.9g, fiber 2.6g, sugar 3.1g, sodium 152mg, diet points 4.7.

I like to make these pancakes small – maybe 2" in diameter; they’re more like a snacking cake than something you pile up on your plate and sit down to eat. You can eat them spread with maple butter, creamed honey or just butter. Even by themselves they’re delicious!

I added the chocolate chunks…just for another layer of chocolate and another dimension of texture to the cake. YUM.
I baked this in a plain tube pan (because I didn’t have a nice bundt pan yet)…next time I definitely would make it in the fancy bundt pan…if for asthetic reasons only.