Showing posts with label pancakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pancakes. Show all posts

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Pancakes for dinner

Grab your favorite pancake recipe everyone and get mixing! This recipe is a work in progress, but feel free to try it. Pancakes for dinner is a guilty pleasure of mine, key word guilty. Having something so delightfully bread like and doused with maple syrup makes me feel like I am letting the health conscious side of me fall by the wayside. So the solution to my guilty feelings is this.

A crazy mound of kale, celery, apples, beets, and fresh ginger, that I promptly turned into a tall glass of spicy, purple, nutrition. Which I may add was definitely not the most pleasant glass of juice I have made, but also not the worst. It made me feel healthier none the less.

Now, onto more exciting things - carrot cake pancakes! I'm sure someone out there has tried this before, but not that I am aware of. It came to me as I was shoving vegetables into my juicer and racking my brain for a tasty way to add vegetables to pancakes --- of course, carrot cake. So I pulled out my old standby carrot cake recipe and started grating. I added grated carrot, cinnamon, allspice, and ground cloves to the mix.


Thinking of cream cheese frosting that is the tradition on carrot cakes, I blended some dairy free cream cheese with some maple syrup to make this delicious pancake topping. I did not have any vanilla extract in the house which would have enhanced the sauce a lot, but it was still pretty tasty. I need to work on this recipe again to get the perfect blend of spices, so hopefully soon I will have this recipe for you. In the mean time feel free to experiment yourself and let me know what you come up with.


Tomorrow I will have one of Matt and I's favorite sandwich recipes, so stay tuned.