Pumpkin Pancakes + Cinnamon Syrup

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I was craving something fall-ish for breakfast, so I decided to try to make homemade pumpkin pancakes from scratch.

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The key ingredient – canned pumpkin. I like the organic version (which I pretty much only buy when it’s on sale).

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I added walnuts to the batter while the pancakes were cooking.

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And for protein, we had scrambled eggs with cheese on the side.

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The pancakes came out ok, but I wasn’t 100% happy with them, so I won’t be sharing the recipe at this time.

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The sauce was pretty awesome, though.

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I made a cinnamon syrup sauce.

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At first I was just going to heat up cinnamon with maple syrup, but when I realized I was low on maple syrup, I decided to adapt a recipe I’d seen awhile back from Giada.

Cinnamon Syrup

Adapted from this recipe by Giada DeLaurentis

Serves 2-4 (4 if you go light on the syrup, 2 if you go heavy)

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon (you could use a little less if you don’t want the sauce too strong)

Directions:

  1. In a small saucepan or butter warmer, combine sugar, water and cinnamon and whisk together. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
  2. Reduce to simmer.
  3. Simmer till liquid is reduced by about half.
  4. Allow to cool before serving (or serve warm, but not hot)

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Enjoy!

11 thoughts on “Pumpkin Pancakes + Cinnamon Syrup”

    • Hey girlie! So glad to see on Twitter that the coconut cups worked out. I thought those were particularly yummy! I’m hoping to give the pancakes another go…or just try someone else’s recipe. lol

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  1. I know you like creating your own recipes (I understand–I do too!) but Jenna at eatliverun had an AWESOME pancake recipe for squash pancakes up a week or two ago. She made hers with butternut but I subbed canned pumpkin when I made them and they were literally perfect! 🙂

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    • Hey Natalie! Thanks for the tip! I checked out the recipe and it looks really good! I may try the one I was working on one more time because I think I was close, but if it doesn’t work, it’s nice to know there’s a yummy recipe out there I can try instead. 🙂 Thanks again for letting me know!

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    • Did you try her pannetone bread pudding that went with it??!! I’ve made that one time before, but I used her other sauce recipe for it – Amaretto cream. *drool*

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