Fluffy Gingerbread Pancakes | Bold Kitchen

I’m so excited to carry you fluffy, cozy, completely spiced gingerbread pancakes on your vacation morning brunch. Throughout this busy time, I like to take a second to attach, get inventive and create one thing pleasurable (and scrumptious!). These fluffy gingerbread pancakes made me so ridiculously blissful, particularly when drizzled with pure maple syrup and paired with a cup of espresso. 

So right here’s what I need you to do: make your self a enjoyable brunch together with these pancakes (possibly with a aspect of those turkey breakfast patties + crispy breakfast potatoes), throw on Dwelling Alone, The Grinch, or Santa Claus, and sip one thing heat when you’re wrapped in a blanket. Get pleasure from your day. You need to!

Now let’s get to the deliciousness…

What you’ll have to make gingerbread pancakes

These more healthy gingerbread pancakes are full of scrumptious, cozy flavors with out utilizing any refined sugars. We’re holding them entire wheat but nonetheless oh so completely fluffy! Right here’s what it’s worthwhile to make them:

• Flour: I used entire wheat pastry flour to offer these pancakes a wholesome dose of entire grains.
• Baking staples: you’ll wish to add baking powder (not soda) to maintain these pancakes fluffy, and a little bit of salt & vanilla extract for taste.
• Cozy spices: we’re utilizing cinnamon, floor ginger and allspice to offer these gingerbread pancakes that heat cozy style.
• Eggs: you’ll want one egg on this pancake recipe.
• Sweeteners: we’re utilizing some natural molasses and coconut sugar to naturally sweeten these gingerbread pancakes. Just some tablespoons to get them completely flavored.
• Milk: be at liberty to make use of any milk you’d like (I often use dairy free) so as to add moisture to the batter.
• Toppings & mix-ins: these fluffy gingerbread pancakes are scrumptious topped with pure maple syrup, whipped cream and even candied nuts! Be happy to combine in some nuts and even chocolate chips.

The magic + well being advantage of molasses

For those who’ve by no means baked with molasses earlier than you’re in for a TREAT as a result of it’s:

• Naturally full of iron, vitamin B6, potassium, calcium and magnesium. In truth, do you know that 1 tablespoon of molasses has 20% of your each day iron wants?
• Wonderful in baked items and even savory marinades, BBQ sauces and chilis!
• Good for making ginger cookies, gingerbread and all the time a vacation baking staple in my cabinet.

Ideas for making gingerbread pancakes

Make sure to get all of my ideas & methods for making the perfect pancakes (plus a video) right here! For the fundamentals, bear in mind these:

• When you’ve melted your coconut oil ensure it’s cool to the contact (not sizzling) earlier than mixing it in with the opposite components, in any other case it would coagulate the egg. You can too be at liberty to make use of melted butter!
• Don’t overmix your batter! It will end in a gummy pancake texture.
• Prepare dinner your pancakes over medium warmth in order that they cook dinner evenly. For those who flip your pancakes and they look like cooking too quick, be at liberty to scale back the temp to medium-low in order that they don’t burn.

The way to hold pancakes heat

For those who’re serving these for Christmas morning or a winter brunch, you possibly can really make these gingerbread pancakes forward of time and hold them heat within the oven! Merely place your oven at 200 levels F, add your pancakes to a baking sheet or oven-safe plate, and place them within the oven till you’re able to serve.

The way to freeze pancakes

If you wish to make these more healthy gingerbread pancakes forward of time and serve them at a later date, you possibly can place the pancakes on a baking sheet in order that they aren’t touching and place them within the freezer for half-hour (that is known as a flash freeze), then place them in freezer secure luggage or containers and freeze for as much as 3 months. As soon as able to reheat, merely add pancakes to a plate and microwave for 30-60 seconds or till heat.

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I hope you’re keen on these simple, wholesome gingerbread pancakes! For those who make them make sure to go away a remark & a score so I understand how you favored them. Get pleasure from, xo!

This publish was initially revealed on December thirteenth, 2020, republished on December twenty second, 2021, and republished on December nineteenth, 2023.