Gingerbread Pancakes Recipe

This Gingerbread Pancakes Recipe is the perfect easy breakfast to celebrate the holiday season with its subtle hints of molasses and cinnamon. 

Breakfast is hands down my favorite meal of the day (hello carbs!), and I love taking the opportunity to make breakfast special for whatever holiday or season we're celebrating. This Gingerbread Pancakes Recipe was one of the very first recipes I shared over on this blog nine years ago, and it's still a seasonal favorite today! If you're in the market for Gingerbread Pancakes, these ones are super simple and delicious!

Gingerbread Pancakes Recipe:

This Gingerbread Pancakes Recipe is super simple to make with mostly pantry staples! You'll need common ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Then you have your wet ingredients: an egg, brown sugar, oil, milk, and molasses. Most ingredients you probably already have on hand!

Turn Them Into Festive Christmas Pancakes:

If you want to make these pancakes a little more festive, you can certainly dress them up for the holiday season! For these pancakes I made some homemade whipped cream (1 cup heavy cream, 1 tablespoon sugar, and 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract, whipped with electric mixer until whipped cream consistency!), and then topped with some red, green and white holiday sprinkles! This would make for a super easy breakfast on Christmas morning that your kids will love!

How to Properly Cook A Pancake:

I firmly believe there is a right and wrong way to do everything, and I'm very particular in how I cook my pancakes. I set my pancake griddle to 350º. After it's heated up I rub butter onto the surface. Than I use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to scoop the batter and pour it onto the griddle. This ensures the pancakes are all the same size.

After the pancakes have cooked for a couple minutes they'll start to get bubbly on top. At this point you can flip your pancake, and then wait another minute or two before removing it from the heat. I would rather a pancake sit on the heat a little longer, then a little shorter. No one likes pancakes that are mushy in the middle, at least I don't. 

Make These Gingerbread Pancakes Vegan:

The recipe I used below is not vegan. If you're looking to make these into vegan gingerbread pancakes you can do so by replacing the egg with one flax egg. Simply mix one tablespoon of ground flaxseed with three tablespoons of water, and let it sit for 15 minutes. You can then use this mixture to replace the egg in this recipe. While I used cows milk for this recipe, you could also replace that with any dairy free milk that you like. 

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Gingerbread Pancakes Recipe

Yield: 10 Pancakes

Author: Paige Flamm

Prep time: 5 MinCook time: 5 MinTotal time: 10 Min

This Gingerbread Pancakes Recipe is the perfect easy breakfast to celebrate the holiday season with its subtle hints of molasses and cinnamon.

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon cloves
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon molasses

Instructions

1. In one bowl whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, ginger, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cloves.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg,  brown sugar, oil, milk, and molasses.
3. Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and stir well until completely combined and you can't see any dry mixture.
4. Preheat your griddle to 350º or medium high heat, and grease with butter. 
5. Pour 1/4 cup of batter onto the griddle for each pancake. Let cook for 1-2 minutes until it starts to bubble on the top. Then carefully flip over, and cook for another 1-2 minutes until the inside is cooked all the way through. 
6. Serve hot with powdered sugar, whipped cream, Christmas sprinkles, or syrup! (Or all of the above, I'll never tell!)

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