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I just made this this morning and they were SO GOOD!! Thanks for the super great recipes! Keep them coming 🙂
Wendy Bobbitt
It’s just me and these simple cinnamon pumpkin pancakes.
Breakfast, lunch, and brinner: we’re talking about whole wheat goodness that meets the completely fluffy, golden brown, cozy delicious of pumpkin pancakes. Both the healthy and the good, together in one. Nothing else needed here except a big slab of creamy melted butter (er, ahhmm, I meeeean, just close your eyes for a second) and a thick drizzle of real maple syrup, a rich Americano with extra cream, and a few new kitchen cabinets being installed upstairs.
OH MY GOSH, yes! That!
The new kitchen cabinets are heeeeyyyerrrr.
Warning: I’m going to clap obnoxiously loud at the beginning of this video. Cover ears of sleeping children and skittish animals. And self.
Kitchen Update (2 MINS):
Big big big BIIIIG thank you to our fantastically talented crew of construction-ers who are making this all happen one hard working day at a time. They allow us to continue geeking out with our “jobs” (aka wearing black stretchy pants and oversized hoodies from high school while Instagramming, responding to emails, making scrappy videos, and experimenting with pancakes in the basement) while they do the important and difficult things needed to make this kitchen come together. We will be eternally, geekily thankful to these guys every time we open the drawer for a spoon and watch in awe as it soft-closes without a squeak. Bless.
I have been making some actual meal food in the basement during these last few weeks of kitchen reno. I promise I have. Making goat cheese scrambled eggs on a panini press is one of my new ninja basement tricks, and we’ve only eaten Chipotle 27 times so far. Success.
But the truth is that sometimes all you really want for dinner-brinner is simple cinnamon pumpkin pancakes that fry up into perfectly round and evenly golden brown fluffy circles with a nice big glass of milk, and the other truth is that this feeling is multiplied one thousandfold when you operate out of a janky basement kitchen whose primary cooking tool is a panini press. But you know what? Look what’s on my plate right now. Don’t even think for one second that this girl is complaining about a dang syrup-soaked thing.
It’s like every reason I could ever think of against eating breakfast for dinner (like, all one and a half of them) no longer exists when I know that the quickest path to dinner involves one mixing bowl, five minutes, and a bottle of real mapley syrup, and pancakes left in my fridge for tomorrow morning.
Shh. Do you feel that? It’s The Deep Down Fall Happy Feelings.
I’ve actually already made a really similar version of these pancakes for Pinch of Yum – I posted it last year right around this time when I was feeling the annual fall onset of simple comfort food nostalgia (read: obsession). I decided to share the recipe again because ::
- I’ve changed it up a bit this week based on what I currently have in the basement mini-mini-mini-fridge, and
- I am a firm believer that really good food doesn’t have to be fancy, and that what you see on the blog should be a reflection of what we as REAL PEOPLE actually eat day in and day out. And day in and day out and day in and day out and da– okay. Point taken.
As a food blogger who is exposed to tons of creative and incredible ideas in this extremely talented foodie-friendly web world, I am always inspired and challenged to take recipes higher and higher and higher – more creative combinations, more zazzly-fun ingredients, more stuff sprinkled on top.
Not today, guys. Today we’re staying low to the ground with pumpkin pancakes. Really, really, REALLY good simple cinnamon pumpkin pancakes.
Also, the no-kitchen-thing sort of dictates the low to the ground approach.
But still.
We are off to Kansas City this weekend. Woot! I am so thrilled to have this sweet, sweet season of life that allows me to travel around with mah boiy slash business partner (we just said that out loud a few hours ago, the part about the you-are-my-business-partner thing, and I internally panicked – how did this happen? is this the worst or best idea ever? let’s just break every rule in the book?) and talk about food blogging and meet my food blogging friends in the real-life-friend way. Per the usual during our “work-ish trips,” I’m actually coming to you live in this post via keyboard, laptop, and iPhone hotspot in the passenger seat from somewhere on a highway in the middle of Iowa. You’re weirded out now, aren’t you? That’s what you get for actually reading what I write.
One of the things I love about getting away from home for a few days is the comfy old feeling of coming back home again, and even when we are halfway living in the B-word (BASEMENT), it always feels good to pull back into the garage, bring the suitcases inside, slip into my old slippers (which are so ratty right now just FYI in case anyone has my name for Christmas) and settle in for a toe-tingly comforting meal in front of a Netflix show NOT LIKE WE DO THAT. Jeez.
Pancakes, though. Food for the heart and soul.
Simple Cinnamon Pumpkin Pancakes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 12–14 pancakes (nutrition is for one pancake out of 14) 1x
Description
Simple Cinnamon Pumpkin Pancakes! So simple and deliciously sweet. Perfect treat for a cozy fall morning. Or dinner? Or both?
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups almond milk (regular milk is fine too)
- 5 ounces plain nonfat Greek yogurt
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 tablespoons baking powder (yes, tablespoons!)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 heaping teaspoon cinnamon
- a pinch of nutmeg, cloves, and/or all spice
Instructions
- Whisk the eggs, pumpkin, olive oil, brown sugar, almond milk, and Greek yogurt together until smooth.
- Add the whole wheat flour, baking powder, salt, and spices. Stir until just combined.
- Preheat a skillet or griddle to medium high heat. Pour 1/3 cup batter onto the hot griddle and let cook for 3-5 minutes until bubbles rise to the top and the edges look dry. Flip the pancakes and let cook for another 2-3 minutes. Remove and keep warm until ready to serve. Top with butter and maple syrup (or other ideas in the notes section below!) Keep leftovers in the fridge for a few days or freeze them to enjoy later.
Notes
Other topping ideas –> peanut butter and raw honey (yummm), pecans, pumpkin seeds, yogurt, turbinado sugar, almond butter, banana slices, and whipped cream.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: pumpkin pancakes, cinnamon pancakes, pumpkin, cinnamon, breakfast
Yum! Slightly modified – 1/4c olive oil, white flower and guessed on ounces of yogurt. My picky toddler had no issues eating these (granted I added Nutella and sprinkles on top). I’ve made these before and will be again!
Can I use almond flour in the cinnamon pumpkin pancakes?
Hi Angie! We haven’t tested this recipe using almond flour, so it’s hard to say for sure. I’m guessing that you could use it in this recipe, but there’d need to be adjustments to other ingredients to get them just right!
Texture of these pancakes is perfection! Next time I’ll likely add more spice to enhance the pumpkin spice flavor.
So happy to hear that, Elizabeth!
Even Cinnamon is not rare in sri lanka, we cant see like these Amazing recipes here with cinnamon. I’m sure, Specially Sri Lankans will love this. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Awesome pumpkin pancakes , I would love to try by my own.
Looks Great.
Pictures are so attractive and It gives a motivation to prepare and taste the recipe at home. There are so many health benefits of Pure Cinnamon…. Thank you for sharing this with us…..
Hmmm… wow… Firstly, My Eyes Grabbed the nice photos before reading this.. This is really nice. Thanks…
I LOVE your recipe!! Just started following you, so now I wont’ miss a post ??
I made this exactly as written and they turned out phenomenally! I actually got a few more pancakes out of it than the recipe says so next time I’ll make em even bigger but the fall flavor was so delicious 🙂
Oh my! Hubby would love this! Pinning now! Thanks for sharing!!
every person like spicy food
Can I substitute the whole wheat flour with a gluten free option (almond flour or gluten free oat flour)?
Wow this really looks awesome dish. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Oh yum, they look amazing…I could eat them now. Thanks for the recipe! 🙂
Really fantastic!
I LOVE these pancakes! We make them all the time. My 2 year old loves pancakes too and I feel good about giving these to him on a regular because it makes him eat some pumpkin and Greek yogurt 🙂 He eats at least 3 of these in one sitting!
Love that! Thanks for the comment!
Mmmmmm…..yum. This looks totally amazing. I’m just starring at the screen looking at how delicious they look. My mouth is watering.
I love pancakes for dinner, I love pumpkin pancakes like no ones business. I have been eating my home canned apple butter on everything from pumpkin muffins to greek yogurt. Looks like this could be yet another possibility…ahhh
Home canned apple butter – YUM! That would be great on these pancakes. 🙂
Hi! Any substitutions for the yogurt if you’re dairy intolerant?? Thanks!
Hi, Kristin! There are dairy-free yogurts available (which would work great), otherwise you could try pureed silken tofu, or coconut cream. Hope that helps!
way too much baking soda. It’s all I can taste.
Thank you for your feedback.
I just made these and OMG soooo good! I just wish they looked as perfect as yours!
I just made this this morning and they were SO GOOD!! Thanks for the super great recipes! Keep them coming 🙂
Thanks for the comment – I’m so glad to hear that you liked it Wendy!
Yum! Made these for lunch today and the kids gobbled them up! I felt they were getting a healthy lunch too; protein, pumpkin and whole grains. Will definitely make these again. We have been enjoying many of your recipes, thanks!
Thanks for the comment – I’m so glad to hear that you liked it Wendy!
Oh me, oh my! My kind of food. We love pancakes around here. These are looking good for breakfast next weekend. Maybe even dinner. Yesss!