Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pancakes with Buttermilk Syrup

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Special Supplies:

*At least 1  Pumpkin Griddle, 2 to 4 pumpkin griddles is desired to make them quickly.

Note:  Below are 2 recipes first is Chocolate Chip Pancake recipe and second is Pumpkin Purée Chocolate Chip Pancake recipe.  Make Buttermilk Syrup below or use Maple Syrup

Chocolate Chip Pancake recipe

Ingredients:

*1 cups Flour
*1 tablespoons Baking Powder
*2 tablespoons Sugar
*1/2 teaspoon Salt
*1 cup Milk
*1 Egg
*1 teaspoon Vanilla
*1 to 2 tablespoon Extra Light Olive Oil

*Mini Chocolate Chips, sprinkle a few on top of pancake batter after pouring onto pumpkin griddle, close lid

Instructions:

Whisk together in a bowl all the dry ingredients and then, beat together in a separate bowl all the wet ingredients just until combined and slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat until smooth.

Cook the pancakes on pre-heated, cooking sprayed griddle.  Pour or spoon batter onto griddle about a 3 tablespoon of batter per pumpkin pancake and Cook pancakes according to pumpkin griddle instructions.

Note:  It is best to have more pumpkin griddles 

Buttermilk Syrup

Ingredients:

*1/4 stick Vegan Butter

*1/2 cup Sugar

*1/2 cup Low-fat Buttermilk

*1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda

*1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Instructions:

In a sauce pan on medium-low, add butter, sugar and buttermilk and bring to a boil, boil 2 minutes.  Remove from heat and add vanilla and baking soda, it will bubble up.  Mix well and serve over pancakes.

Note: Double this recipe if you aren’t using maple syrup to serve too or if you just like a lot of syrup on pancakes.

Pumpkin Purée Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Ingredients:

*1 (15.25 ounce) box Spice Cake Mix, like Betty Crocker Super Moist

*15 ounce canned Pumpkin Purée, not pumpkin pie filling

*Sprinkle on Mini Chocolate Chips, optional

Instructions:

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Mix together the cake mix and pumpkin just until combined. Then stir in the chocolate chips.

Scoop about 2-3 Tablespoons on pumpkin griddle.  Sprinkle on chocolate chips on top if desired.  Bake according to pumpkin griddle instructions or until baked through.

Top with Buttermilk Syrup or Maple Syrup.

Note:  The below is if you don’t want all the batter to be made into pancakes, so I made 8 pumpkin pancakes and then baked the rest of the batter in the oven for cookies, but you can make all the pumpkin batter into pancakes.

Instructions for Easy Spice Mix Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Scoop out 12 cookies, about 2 tablespoons of the pumpkin cookie batter (per cookie) onto a Silpat (baking mat) or parchment paper,  on half baking sheet.

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Bake in a preheated oven 350*F for 13 to 15 minutes.

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Makes around 12 cookies depending on the size of cookies and number of pancakes you make.

See Little Pumpkin Party

Enjoy!

Lindy

Christmas Cranberry Muffins


Cranberry Muffins

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Special Supplies:

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*Muffin pan

*Cupcake Liners

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Ingredients and Instructions

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Cream together:

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*3 tablespoons Butter, room temperature

*4 ounces Greek Yogurt or 4 ounces 1/3 less fat Cream Cheese

*1 cup Sugar

*1 teaspoon Almond Extract

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Add to creamed mixture:

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*1 and 1/2 cups (12 ounce can) Evaporated Canned Milk

Dry ingredients:

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*1 and 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour, sifted

*1/2 cup White Wheat Pastry Flour or All-purpose Flour

*1 teaspoon Salt

*3 teaspoon Baking Powder

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Whisk dry ingredients together and then add to wet ingredients. Mix with electric mixer until smooth.

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Stir in:

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* 2 cups Raw/Fresh Cranberries, washed and chopped by pulsing in the food processor (Note: You can use whole frozen cranberries)

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Stir in Cranberries into muffin batter.

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Use a Muffin Pan and line with cupcake liners. Fill each cup 3/4 full with batter and bake at 350* F. for about 25 minutes.

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Makes 2 dozen Cranberry Muffins.

Enjoy!

Lindy