What I Ate Wednesday - Pumpkin Pancakes Made Even Better!

It's What I Ate Wednesday time again, happy Wednesday everyone! Thanks, as always, to Jenn for organising the party!


Pretty much every morning recently, I've been craving pancakes. Yesterday was no exception, so I made a batch of pumpkin pancakes. I changed the recipe slightly - using 40g pumpkin, 20ml milk instead of 60g pumpkin - which produced a lighter, fluffier pancake - I recommend following the change! I also used a mix of chocolate and peanut butter chips as I was all out of plain chocolate, yum! Topped with peanut butter...

The photos of this are a bit blurry as Toby liked the look of these pancakes too!

The taste was gorgeous though. Now that I have a pancake recipe that makes just enough for me, I want to make pancakes pretty much every day!

No proper pictures of yesterday's lunch as my friend came round and I completely forgot! This is what she brought last time though...

Yesterday I had one croissant with raspberry jam, and one chocolate torsade - those twisty pastries with chocolate chips and custard, delicious! This was about 11.30am so I called it lunch.

For dinner, we had Mama Pea's Quinoa Pizza Casserole topped with mozzarella and roasted peppers...

We all love this, as usual we all fought over the leftovers! Well, I say 'we', times like this I'm glad to be a fast eater - I finished before everyone else, so took half the leftovers, assuming only Liam would also want seconds. But then Izzy finished really quickly too, so Liam had to share his leftovers with her, haha, oops!!

After dinner, I fancied something sweet, so I had a lemon drizzle cupcake...

I made these on Monday as my Auntie & Uncle were visiting. I love the crunchy lemon sugar layer between the cake and the icing, a great end to the day!

What was the best thing you ate today/yesterday? Do you like to end the day with something sweet or are you satisfied with a savoury meal as your last food?? No matter how delicious dinner is, I always crave something sweet afterwards - got to satisfy my sweet tooth before bedtime!

Pumpkin Pancakes with Chocolate Chips

The other day, I made Chelsey's Fill Me Up Blueberry Pancakes. They were delicious, and indeed very filling, but presentation wise I messed up. Ever since, I have been craving pancakes. In part to prove to myself that I can make them look vaguely decent, but mainly because I just love pancakes.

Sadly, the blueberries in my fridge are all gone. But that's ok, because I've been craving pumpkin recently anyway. I know, I know, it's not pumpkin season yet, but with this weather it may as well be! Plus I have 7-8 tins of pumpkin sitting in the cupboard, and Liam gets a bit irritable when I start hoarding food so it will please him if I start using them up!!

So here it is - vaguely based on Chelsey's pancake recipe - as in, I used the same amount of oats and flour. Her recipe is vegan, gluten-free and quite healthy, mine...is not.

Pumpkin Pancakes with Chocolate Chips
(serves 1)

• 30g plain flour
• 30g oats
• quarter tsp baking powder
• cinnamon (I used half tsp)
• ground ginger (again, I used half tsp but you could use more for a stronger flavour)
• 1 medium egg
• 60g tinned pumpkin (or a mix of pumpkin and milk - see 'edit' below)
• 5ml oil, plus more for frying the pancakes
• handful of chocolate chips (optional, but recommended!)

Toppings:
I used coconut butter and golden syrup (we're all out of maple, annoying!) but these would be great topped with anything!

EDIT: The second time I made these, I used 40g pumpkin, 20ml milk instead of all pumpkin, and it made a much lighter, fluffier pancake...I recommend!
Mix all the dry ingredients together (except choc chips), and then add in the wet ingredients and mix. The mixture should be quite thick - as in it wouldn't fall off a spoon easily.

Heat oil in a pan (important: wait for oil to get quite hot, that was one of the mistakes I made last time).

Add pancake mix to pan in 3 dollops. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top of the pancakes.

Once the pancakes are bubbling, flip them over (or when you think they're ready to be flipped - mine didn't bubble today as I think the mixture was a little too thick, not that I'm complaining). Try not to be put off by the lurid yellow colour of the underside!

Cook second side for a little bit (sorry not to be specific, I tend to cook whilst doing several other things so don't do exact timings, but probably only a minute or two more) and then serve.

These were very dense, which I loved, but I guess if you substituted some of the pumpkin for milk it might make them a little lighter.

Top with whatever takes your fancy - in this case coconut butter and golden syrup :)

Delicious! I'm so pleased these turned out so well! It's completely normal to go straight to your laptop to write a blog post after an exciting breakfast right?!! :-D

Pancake cravings subdued...for now! Good thing too as we're off to a food-filled wedding tomorrow, so I think I'll be needing a slightly lighter breakfast or I won't have room to fit all the later food in!

What is your favourite type of breakfast? And your favourite pancake variety? I love all breakfasts - porridge, smoothies, yoghurt bowls, pancakes, french toast...french toast usually wins as my indulgent breakfast, but I've been loving pancakes recently! I only started making American style pancakes since starting this blog - before that we always used to eat crepes with lemon juice and sugar, but I love all the extra variety you can make with big fluffy pancakes. I'd love to hear all your favourites to give me some more ideas!