Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe (Healthy & Whole Wheat)

Tender, fluffy, and full of everybody’s favourite fall taste, this wholesome and finest Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe is bound to grow to be a household favourite. Made with complete wheat flour and with none eggs in underneath half-hour, these naturally vegan and kid-friendly flapjacks are excellent for both a weekday breakfast or a lazy weekend brunch.

About Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe

It appears that evidently love for all issues pumpkin spice has grow to be a wholly common sentiment. My American associates inform me that its ubiquitousness has grow to be nearly a joke.

Apparently, yow will discover pumpkin spice-flavored every thing, from cereals and pop tarts to coffees and sweet bars, and even hummus, cheese, potato chips, and cleansing merchandise!

Whereas I, too, am a devotee of this heat and comfy taste profile, that looks as if corporations have gotten slightly carried away, no?

Nevertheless, within the spirit of the season, I couldn’t resist developing with my very own, wholesome, do-it-yourself breakfast tackle the pumpkin spice craze.

Relating to eggs, these wholesome pumpkin pancakes show that you just don’t want them in any respect to create flavorful, mushy and fluffy flapjacks.

Through the use of a mixture of complete wheat flour, pumpkin puree (which acts like an egg replacer), & different plant based mostly components together with baking powder (leavener), these pancakes are naturally vegan and egg-free.

So whether or not you will have dietary restrictions or simply wish to attempt one thing new, these egg-free and complete grain pumpkin pancakes are a tasty and healthful possibility for breakfast or brunch.

This pleasant recipe is:

• Healthful & Nutritious: Including complete wheat flour makes these pancakes wholesome, so you’ll be able to simply have them with out guilt. Plus, they’re loaded with actual pumpkin and solely have 2 tablespoons of uncooked sugar in the entire batch!
• Fast & Simple: The entire recipe takes lower than half-hour, that means an Instagrammable breakfast isn’t removed from attain.
• Allergy-Pleasant: My pumpkin pancakes recipe is straightforward to make gluten-free and nut-free and is of course vegan and soy-free.

Love pumpkin as a lot as we do? Be sure you examine our egg-free recipes of Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkin Bread recipes for extra methods to get your repair.

Substances & Substitutions

• Complete Wheat Flour – To make these pancakes gluten-free, be happy to make use of Bob’s Pink Mill gluten-free flour, or your favourite cup-for-cup GF flour mix. You possibly can additionally choose to swap the entire meal flour with all-purpose flour, however simply keep in mind so as to add much less almond milk.
• Uncooked Sugar – A small quantity of sugar encourages lovely browning within the pan and provides simply the correct quantity of sweetness. Be happy to omit for sugar-free pancakes.

  You possibly can simply substitute uncooked sugar with any sweetener like maple syrup, brown sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, or jaggery (Indian unrefined sugar made out of sugarcane juice). 

• Floor Allspice, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Cloves & Ginger – Be happy to make use of pre-made Pumpkin Pie Spice as an alternative!
• Salt – Only a pinch will assist to get up all the opposite flavors.
• Baking Powder – To not be confused with baking soda, baking powder is a leavener that begins to activate as quickly because it touches liquid. As such, be sure you are able to make the pancakes as quickly as you add the moist components, otherwise you’ll miss out on the complete rising energy.

• Pumpkin Puree – Be happy to make use of both do-it-yourself or canned pumpkin puree right here. When you go for canned, make sure that it’s 100% pumpkin, NOT pumpkin pie filling. For an attention-grabbing variation, you may additionally attempt including a small mashed banana.
• Almond Milk – Any unsweetened plant-based or dairy milk can be utilized as an alternative.
• Vanilla Extract – Whereas technically non-obligatory, the addition of vanilla makes these pumpkin pancakes really decadent. Be happy to swap in equal quantities of vanilla powder or paste, or use half as a lot vanilla essence as an alternative.
• Sunflower Oil – Melted coconut oil or any impartial tasting oil will even work. When you aren’t involved about being dairy-free, butter is a beautiful, wealthy possibility.
• Maple Syrup & Contemporary Fruit or Berries – For serving!

Step-by-Step Information

How To Make Pumpkin Pancakes 

You’ll be stunned at how simple it’s to make these pumpkin-spiced pancakes. Right here’s the way it’s completed:

Put together the Batter

1. In a mixing bowl, add the next components:

• 1 cup complete wheat flour
• 2 tablespoons uncooked sugar (or granulated white sugar or brown sugar)
• ¼ teaspoon floor allspice
• ¼ teaspoon floor cinnamon
• ⅛ teaspoon grated nutmeg or floor nutmeg
• 2 pinches floor ginger (ginger powder)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 pinch salt

2. Stir and blend all of the dry components with a whisk to a fair combination.

3. Add ½ cup pumpkin purée – do-it-yourself or canned. I’ve used my do-it-yourself and recent Pumpkin Puree.

Retailer-bought canned puree shall be very thick and a bit sweeter than do-it-yourself, so you’ll seemingly want to extend the quantity of almond milk and scale back the sugar.

4. Add 1 to 1.25 cups almond milk, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract and 1 tablespoon sunflower oil or any impartial tasting oil.

Relying on the thickness of pumpkin puree, you’ll need so as to add much less or extra milk.

Ensure to make use of a impartial flavored oil (NOT olive oil) in order that your pancakes do not need any savory after-taste.

For a vegetarian possibility, you may additionally use melted butter (unsalted).

5. Utilizing a whisk combine very effectively.

6. The pancake batter must be clean, flowing, and a medium consistency. Additionally, you will see tiny bubbles within the batter.

Tip 1: If the batter is just too thick, add just a few tablespoons of almond milk.

Tip 2: If it appears to be like skinny, add 1 to 2 tablespoons complete wheat flour.

Prepare dinner Pumpkin Pancakes

7. Warmth a well-seasoned forged iron skillet or different heavy bottomed pan on medium warmth. After it turns into sizzling, scale back the warmth to low as forged iron retains warmth.

The pan needs to be sizzling earlier than you pour the batter. Unfold 1 to 2 teaspoons oil on the pan. Then pour ⅓ to ½ cup of batter on the pan.

You need to use a ladle to pour the batter. Don’t unfold because the batter will unfold by itself. Use a effectively seasoned pan in order that pancakes don’t stick. 

8. On low to medium-low warmth prepare dinner one facet until golden. You will notice air pockets on high. Drizzle a little bit of oil on the highest and the edges

9. When the bottom is golden, gently flip and prepare dinner the second facet.

10. Prepare dinner for a couple of minutes till the second facet until golden. Take away the pancake from the pan.

11. Make all pancakes this manner and expend your entire batter.

12. Serve them sizzling or heat drizzled with maple syrup or any candy fruit or berry sauce of your alternative and a few seasonal recent fruits or berries.

Serving Recommendations

Pumpkin pancakes are scrumptious when served with a drizzle of maple syrup. You possibly can serve these fiber wealthy pancakes with a candy fruit or berry jam or agave syrup or honey when you want. A facet of recent seasonal fruits additionally tastes good with these pancakes.

You possibly can even use date syrup, chocolate syrup, or a berry sauce like blueberry or strawberry sauce with a spritz of whipped cream to show your fall breakfast into dessert.

Skilled Ideas

1. Make Certain Your Pan Is Scorching: Every time I’m making pancakes in a rush, the primary one at all times seems quite disappointing. Why? As a result of I didn’t let the pan get sizzling sufficient first! Give your self loads of time for it to preheat.
2. Skillet or Pan: For making pancakes or fritters, a forged iron skillet or griddle works finest for even warmth distribution, although you should utilize an excellent heavy metal pan or perhaps a non-stick pan if that’s what you will have available.

   Whichever pan you utilize, ensure that the pan is seasoned in order that the pancakes don’t stick on it.

3. Scaling: This pumpkin pancakes recipe makes 10 pancakes and might simply be halved or doubled relying in your wants.
4. Make-Forward Tip: If I’ve a busy week forward, I prefer to get a bounce on my meal prep. These pancakes can simply be made a day forward (when you plan to serve it the following day), cooled, and frozen (within the freezer) in a single layer earlier than being stacked in a zip-top bag or hermetic container.

   To reheat, merely pop one in a toaster oven till heated by way of for the speediest and tastiest breakfast round!

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This Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe from the weblog archives first revealed on August 2020 has been up to date and republished on October 2023.