Gingerbread Pancakes

It’s the holiday season, so I’ve been craving gingerbread all this week and decided to try and make it into an acceptable breakfast. (You know, other than  cookies dipped in coffee.) I’ve even been on the hunt for a gingerbread man pancake mold, but I’ve only found cookie cutters which are a bit too small.

Thanks to other innkeepers, I did find eons of gingerbread pancake recipes. So many I didn’t know which one to try.  Some with raisins, some with currants, some with cocoa, but I just wanted to stick with a basic gingerbread pancake.

I eenie-meenie-minnie-moed and clicked through on one of the listings and gave it a whirl (with a couple of modifications and additions  … please take note).

So here’s a holiday breakfast recipe for gingerbread pancakes that will be both memorable and delicious.

Step-By-Step Easy Gingerbread Pancake Recipe

The full list of complete ingredients for this gingerbread pancake recipe is at the bottom of the post.

Start with adding your dry ingredients to a large mixing bowl.

Next, add your wet ingredients to another bowl and whisk together.

During one of my health nut kicks a couple of years ago I had a nasty introduction to molasses.  You see, I thought it was syrup.  I was going to be healthy and low cal by adding that to my pancakes.  And I drenched my sweet little pancakes in the black, rust-flavored tar.  Yeah, go ahead and laugh. It was awful.

Molasses on milk.

My new art project.

Blend together.  Starting to look like chocolate milk, huh?   Don’t drink it, though.

Pour wet batter into your large  dry ingredients bowl with the flour, spices, etc.

You may have to scrape the bottom of the bowl a bit.  Molasses doesn’t play nice with others.

Well bah-humbug.  The batter was runny.  I dipped my finger in and took a taste. This was a no make-up-work-in-my-pajamas day, so I have no photographic evidence of the finger-licking. But I’ll tell you that it tasted like molasses.  Ugh. Now I’m feelin a bit scroogey.

I followed the recipe EXACTLY!   To a T!    (indecently, where does the phrase “to a T” actually come from?)

Anyway, it was a runny, molasses flavored mess.

So, I added a little more love that it needed.

An extra cup of flour.  That helped with the consistency.

Now to put molasses in its place and tweak the flavor.  I added an additional tsp of ginger and a 1/4 cup of sugar.

Mmm.  That helped a whole lot!  Dipped my finger again and now the flavor is more like a gingerbread cookie.  It’s ready to go be made into round cake perfection.

Just add a little butter.

Then a little batter.

Let it get bubbly.

Flip the pancake! And you’re nearly done!

Now that’s a leave-for-santa worthy pancake. I could eat it like a cookie. But instead of eating with my fingers I’ll fancy it up with a bit of butter, maple syrup and festive star fruit. And of course, a fork and knife.  Still in my pajamas though. Enjoy!

Gingerbread Pancakes

More Holiday Recipes We Think You’ll Love

• Welsh Gingerbread
• Holiday Sangria
• Chocolate Peppermint Marshmallows
• French Canadian Meat Pie
• Oatcakes
• Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
• Apple Pie Smoothie

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Originally published on my innkeeping blog, Inn The Kitchen, Dec 11, 2010.