Whole Wheat Gingerbread Pancakes

Submitted by Geema

"This tastes like dessert for breakfast. Top with some whipped cream for a real treat and a happy start to your day."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 (12 ounce) can frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
• 1⁄2 cup water
• 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
• 2 large eggs
• additional butter, for topping
• maple syrup or apple butter

directions

1. Whisk first 6 ingredients in a large bowl to blend.
2. Whisk apple juice concentrate, water, butter and eggs in a medium bowl to blend.
3. Add to dry ingredients, whick batter just until blended.
4. Heat heaby griddle or skillet over medium-high heat; brush with some oil or butter.
5. Pour batter by 1/3 cupfuls onto griddle, spacing 2 inches apart.
6. Cook until pancakes are golden brown, about 3 minutes per side.
7. Transfer to plate and keep warm in low oven while making the rest of the pancakes.
8. Serve with butter, maple syrup or apple butter.

Reviews

[hotdishmama]

These have become our family favorite. I use canola oil instead of melted butter and regular apple juice instead of the concentrated to cut down on the fat and sugar a little. We serve with Buttermilk Syrup recipe #16717. Any time I serve these to company they always ask for the recipe. Thanks!

 

[Judy in San Antonio]

Very tasty and easy to mix. The texture of the batter surprised me a bit - I'm not sure if it was the baking soda or whole wheat. You definitely need to watch how you drop the batter on the pan. Small amounts and spread it out, because it doesn't ooze out like traditional batter. Once I got used to working with it, the pancakes turned out beautifully! I only had a half can of apple juice concentrate, so I subbed the rest of the concentrate amount and water with apple juice. I happily ate a plain pancake without any butter or topping while cooking the rest!

 

[Moki5786]

These tasted really good, and I love how healthy they are. The texture leaves a little to be desired, though - they almost seemed gritty to me. My girls gobbled them up anyway! I will definitely try these again.

 

[Shannon Holmes]

WOW! I loved these pancakes, very good gingerbread flavor and very fluffy. I loved that they are sweetened with apple juice concentrate and they are not grainy tasting like most whole wheat recipes I have tried. I ate these with the Cracker Barrel Fried Apples recipe from this website and the flavors complimented each other. I made half the recipe and I used olive oil instead of melted butter. Will definately make again! Thanks so much for sharing this recipe!!!! :)

 

[LonghornMama]

These taste great and I love that they're whole wheat with only apple juice concentrate added as a a sweetener. Nice combination of spices that goes really well with maple syrup or apple butter. I had some real problems with the prep, though. Followed the recipe exactly (though obviously cooking them 30 min a side is a typo), using my nonstick Calphalon griddle. The batter was very thin and runny, the pancakes cook and burn very quickly, and boy do they stick like the dickens even when I used oil spray. I have never had anything stick to that griddle before. Made three different batches of pancakes this morning, and some of these were such a disaster that I actually had to throw them out. Since I'm the only reviewer to use apple juice concentrate as listed in the recipe, I wonder if that made a difference? I would tweak these next time, omitting the water to see if a thicker batter helps. Thanks for sharing your recipe!