I absolutely love the fall season. It’s my favorite time of year. It seems here in Utah over the past two years we’ve only had 2 weeks of fall weather and then it was winter. This year it seemed like one day it was summer weather and the month of August and the next day it was September with fall weather. The seasons seemed to change over night. Hopefully it will last a while. Well, as soon as the weather changed I started to get I the mood for food with that fall flavor. What could be more fall flavored than pumpkins and apple cider. I got this idea for the pancakes a years ago on an episode of Studio 5. They didn’t give an exact recipe so I came up with this. Then they had a recipe for apple cider syrup to go along with these pancakes. I absolutely love these with the apple cider syrup but the rest of my family prefers good old maple syrup. They tend to prefer things that are basic. Luckily the cider syrup recipe can easily cut in half or you can even make 1/4 of the recipe. For an extra special treat, you can also drop a few chocolate chips in the pancake while it cooks on the first side. Then serve it with a little maple syrup. The pancake recipe also call for pumpkin spice. If you don’t have pumpkin spice on hand I’ve included a recipe at the very bottom of how to make your own. Also, when making pancakes from a mix, I prefer the Hungary Jack brand.
Pumpkin Patch Pancakes
Mix up your favorite pancake mix according to package directions. For every cup of dry mix used, mix in the following:
¼ cup canned pumpkin
½ tsp. pumpkin pie spice (If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice on hand you can make your own. See recipe below.) Cook pancakes as you normally would.
Apple Cider Syrup
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
4 cups apple juice or apple cider
In a sauce pan mix together, sugar, cornstarch, and pumpkin spice. Stir in apple juice or apple cider. Bring to a boil, remembering to stir occasionally. Boil until desired thickness. Remove from heat and serve over Pumpkin Patch Pancakes or give it a try over regular pancakes.
Pumpkin Pie Spice
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon allspice
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
Mix and store.
So good! Great combination.
Hi Laura, we stayed home and weather out the rain and wind of Hurriance Ike today. I wanted to make a great breakfast since we were staying inside all day. I made these pumpkin pancakes and they were a huge hit especially with my 5 year old son he loved them. I loved the syrup. thanks fore a easy recipe.
Ok those just sound good. I wonder if I could make them work with our favorite whole wheat blender pancakes?!?!?
I bet those are great,both pumpkin and apple flavors are wonderful. I love pumpkin bread so just thinking about these makes me want to eat some ! haha
Yummy my son loves pumpkin bread. I think he would love these. The syrup looks so so good.
Thanks for the recipes. I am really enjoying stopping by every day just to see what you made that day.
I love pumpkin. Do you serve these as a breakfast or a dessert?
Also wondering if you made the cookies you mentioned from yesterday?
These sound so good! I’ve got to try them soon!! Thanks for the idea! I’ve got everything here in my house needed to make them! yummy!
Oh, I want fall weather here! We are still in the 90′s and running our air conditioner. Maybe this delicious recipe will at least make it taste like fall!
That sounds really yummy:-) I think I will have to try that:-)
What creative pancakes. I would love them…my husband on the other hand doesn’t like pumpkin. Maybe I just need to start sneaking the pumpkin into things. The apple cider syrup sounds delish. I am with you on the craving for the fall foods. Our harvest here in Utah has been super late, and I am still into my summer veggies. Hopefully I can whip out the fall foods soon. I’m loving your blog. Great job!
Wow, those look so good! I think I’ll have to give those a try. Apple and pumpkin – yum!