Apple Oat Cakes

Submitted by Outta Here

"A nice fall season breakfast! Serve with warm maple syrup, or low-fat vanilla yogurt and chopped walnuts."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Yields: 6-10 pancakes

ingredients

• 1 1⁄3 cups boiling water
• 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup quick-cooking oats
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1⁄3 cup wheat germ
• 1 1⁄3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 medium granny smith apples, peeled and finely shredded

directions

1. Mix water, butter and oats in a bowl and let stand 20 minutes.
2. Add sugar and eggs; beat to blend.
3. Add remaining ingredients (except apples) and stir just to mix. Fold in shredded apples.
4. Cook as any pancake, on griddle.

Reviews

[loof751]

These pancakes are outstanding! The soaking of the oats in the water/butter is well worth the extra time it takes because it really adds to the rich and nutty taste of these pancakes. Hearty and filling, yet fluffy - loved these - thanks for sharing the recipe!

 

[Laureen in B.C.]

These are really great. Even DH who doesn't eat pancakes ate one.I also found the batter a little to thick so I add some yogurt I had in the fridge and that did the trick. thanks

 

[Ginger Rose]

These were really really good! Unfortunately I only realised that there weren't any apples left in the tree when I'd already started to make it....In the end I used 1/2 an apple and 1/2 a banana!!!! I also have to admit that I had a bit of a problem turning them but what does it matter when they taste so yummy? Thanks for posting this recipe!

 

[AprilShowers]

Very delicious recipe! I too found it was necessary to thin the batter with about 1/4 cup of milk. I halved the recipe and it made about 15 3-4" pancakes. They took a bit longer to cook then regular pancakes and browned a bit more than I would have usually liked, but still tasted great! Rather than shredding the apple I chopped it up finely in my Kitchenaid food chopper. This kept my 2 boys busy while I was getting the rest of the batter together and making some Apple Cinnamon Syrup (#80419 - excellent!) to go with. (They love pounding on the chopper! It could keep them busy for hours!) One more thing - I did not let the apple/water/butter mixture sit for 20 minutes like the recipe states because we were too hungry to wait that long! I let it sit maybe 5 minutes and it was perfectly fine that way. Thanks for a meal we all enjoyed!!

 

[Nimz_]

The flavor of these pancakes are outstanding. I didn't find them to be too thick. They were a little difficult to turn. DH loved them. His comments were "they are much more moist than the last few you've made" I took a single bite, plain and they had a wonderful flavor. I wish I wasn't dieting. But I'll be keeping this for future use.