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Carrot Cake Pancakes

Ingredients

  • 5.6 ounces all-purpose flour about 1 ¼ cups
  • ¼ cup chopped walnuts toasted
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
  • Dash of ground cloves
  • Dash of ground ginger
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ¾ cup low-fat buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon canola oil
  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs lightly beaten
  • 2 cups finely grated carrot about 1 pound
  • Cooking spray

Instructions

  1. Weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine flour and next 7 ingredients (through ginger) in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk. Combine ¼ cup brown sugar and next 4 ingredients (through eggs); add sugar mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Fold in 2 cups carrot.
  2. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Spoon 4 (¼ cup) batter mounds onto pan, spreading with a spatula. Cook for 2 minutes or until tops are covered with bubbles and edges look cooked. Carefully turn pancakes over; cook 1 minute or until bottoms are lightly browned. Repeat procedure twice with remaining batter.