Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Pancakes

 Ingredients

Batter

• 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp brown sugar (optional)*
• 1 tsp salt (optional)*
• 1 1/2 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice Blend or you can put together
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup pumpkin puree or butternut squash puree.
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
• butter for cooking

Toppings

• a slice of apple
• 1/4 cup of plain Greek yogurt  (whole fat) mix with 1 tsp of pumpkin pie spice blend
• honey
• almonds

* personally, I didn't add sugar nor salt and they still turned out great. The pumpkin puree and honey topping provides the sweetness that you need.

Directions

1. Dry ingredients: In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, brown sugar, salt, pumpkin spice blend
2. Wet ingredients: Using a blender, blend together milk, pumpkin puree and eggs. 
3. Pour the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and whisk using the manual hand-held mixer. 
4. Melt butter on lowest heat setting in a large skillet (if you use a non-stick pan, you don't even need butter nor oil), then pour about 1/4 c of the batter onto the pan. 
5. Cook until the topside of the pancake is not too wet anymore, then flip the pancake and cook for about 1 to 2 more minutes.
6. Repeat with remaining batter. This yields about 8 pancakes.