Snickers Rice Paper Crepe (Crispy Banana Pancake, Gluten Free)

This rice paper crepe is the viral no batter trick, done Snickers style. Two rice paper sheets dipped in a sweet vanilla egg mix give you a soft custardy middle and genuinely crisp edges, filled with banana, chopped peanuts and hazelnut cocoa spread. Snickers pancakes normally mean batter and a sink full of washing up. This is 429 calories, 16.7g of fibre, and no flour anywhere.

A proper Snickers has caramel in it. I have not. Half a banana goes soft and jammy in a hot pan and does more or less the same job, and I think it is better.

This came out of my rice paper hack, which I keep pushing to see where it breaks. Dip the sheet in egg, put it in a pan, and it stops behaving like a wrapper and starts behaving like a crepe. That is the whole trick behind a crispy rice paper crepe, and it takes about fifteen minutes start to finish.

• One pan, one plate, no batter to whisk or rest
• Naturally gluten free with no flour swap needed
• 16.7g of fibre from a single breakfast

Key Ingredients

Rice paper sheets do the job flour normally does, and they are what makes a crispy rice paper crepe possible with no batter at all. Dipped in egg they turn pliable, then crisp at the edges in the pan, and because they are only rice and tapioca the whole thing is gluten free with no substitution. Use 22cm rounds.

Banana is the caramel stand in. Half of one, sliced, goes sweet and almost jammy in the heat. A very ripe one gives more of that toffee note, a firmer one keeps its shape.

Chicory syrup sweetens the egg mix and carries nearly all the fibre, around 69g per 100g on the label. Maple syrup or honey works, you just lose the fibre and gain the sugar.

Hazelnut cocoa spread is the chocolate. I use the Vilgain Organic Plant Protein one, hazelnuts and coconut sugar rather than palm oil and icing sugar. Any chocolate spread works, read the label if you need it gluten free.

Chopped peanuts are not optional as far as I am concerned. A Snickers without the crunch is just a chocolate banana pancake, which is a lesser thing.

One Coaching Note

Let me be straight about that fibre number. 16.7g in one breakfast is a lot, and almost all of it is inulin from the chicory syrup rather than the banana or the peanuts. If your gut is not used to inulin, that much in one sitting can leave you bloated, and there is no sense pretending otherwise. Start with half a tablespoon of syrup and build from there. Fibre is worth chasing, it just does not need to arrive all at once.

Want these flavours in another shape? My Snickers Spring Rolls wrap whole bananas and air fry them, and my Snickers Stuffed Pancakes are the batter version. For how far rice paper goes, try my Rice Paper Tarte Tatin.

Alex :)