Are you ready to learn five things about me?
Okay, good! Here we go.
- I love the movie Beauty and the Beast. The soundtrack is ridiculously great and that little clock, candlestick, and teacup friendship is pretty adorable.
- I am obsessed with Salty Dog chocolates from BT McElrath. Dark chocolate with butter toffee pieces and sea salt… I don’t need to explain further.
- I need to date Curtis Stone. He’s Australian and likes to cook. We’d make a good match.
- Two of my best friends are totally the coolest people on earth. You should meet them sometime. You’d laugh your butt off. You’d wonder how we got so sassy. We have fun. I love them very much.
The Ginger, Asian, & Blonde trio. Totally awkward hair colors. Totally different personalities. It just works.
We took on Chicago once. One of the best times of my life. I’m still laughing about it.
Here we are at graduation. Totally cute.
I miss seeing them everyday. I used to come home and we’d cook dinner, laugh about our days, and dream about our futures.
I sound like I’m 80 years old! Gosh, time to pop a Werther’s butterscotch candy.
Anyway, last but not least…
5. I love pumpkin! Pumpkin cookies, pumpkin soup, pumpkin cake & pumpkin muffins. My favorite dessert is pumpkin pie. That would be my last meal if I had to choose.
Yep. I’m a pumpkin lover for life and I’m here to convert you.
These were originally just going to be healthy Pumpkin Pancakes with a few Dark Chocolate Chips (only a few).
They just turned out to be SO much more than that. They were perfect.
Make these!
Ambitious Kitchen
Cookbook
125 Ridiculously Good For You, Sometimes Indulgent, and Absolutely Never Boring Recipes for Every Meal of the Day
Perfect Pumpkin Pancakes with Dark Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- Pinch salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- pinch ground ginger
- pinch ground cloves
- 1/4 cup almond milk
- 1/4 cup plain fat free greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- Oil or melted butter for the pan
- 60-70 chocolate chips if desired (I prefer dark chocolate)
Instructions
- Combine both flours, baking powder, salt in a medium sized bowl. Add your spices to bowl and whisk to combine.
- In a separate bowl, combine pumpkin and yogurt. Mix until very creamy. Then add egg whites, sugar , vanilla & mix to combine.
- Next alternate adding flour mixture and milk to the wet ingredients. Mix until well combined. Do not over mix! It should be somewhat thick.
- Heat non stick pan or skillet over medium heat. Place 1 tsp of oil or 2 tsp of butter on pan. Add about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake. Use a spoon to spread out the pancake a little bit. Put about 6 chocolate chips on each pancake. Then carefully flip over when pancakes edges become bubbly.
- They are done and perfect when golden brown on both sides. Set oven to warm (200 degrees F) and place pancakes on plate in oven to keep warm until the rest of the pancakes are done cooking.
- Enjoy with a big glass of milk! No toppings necessary. Makes 9-12 pancakes.
My son and I are gluten free and I was wondering if any alternative flour would work in this recipe? I was looking for a differeny option besides gf ap flour.
Hi! Try these pumpkin pancakes instead 🙂
Lol did you actually count your chocolate chips?!
I included them based on the servings 😉
Made these this morning-Great, easy & delicious recipe! Looking forward to them being my late night craving! Love your work!
How about using your own fresh (cooked at home) pumpkin instead of canned?
I have made these quite a few times now. Just added a dab of almond butter between my pancakes stacks and it melted in with the dark chocolate chips and created a gooey goodness that is hard to describe. Suffice to say I ran here and decided to thank you for this amazing recipe 🙂
Hi Monique! I just started checking out your sight and can’t wait to try so many of your recipes! I made these pancakes for my roommate this morning for a little valentines breakfast (shaped them in hearts, of course). They were so fun! I just wanted to suggest a little revision to your type up
– your recipe says baking powder, but the directions say soda, so that was a little tricky
– also you have vanilla in the ingredient list, and i LOVE vanilla, and therefore it should’ve been the first thing I got out of my cupboard. . but then adding vanilla to wet ingredients also wasn’t part of the instructions, so when I was going by those, I forgot it 🙁 If you change that to remind other people reading it might make for even more perfect pancakes 😉
Thank you Katherine for pointing this out! 🙂 I was probably in a hurry when I wrote the directions. Hope you still had success and enjoyed them.
I made these and they are delicious! I also added ground chia and flax seeds to mine.
These sounds epic!!! I’m so glad I found them on FitSugar!
Make them!
Great recipe! Made it this morning for breakfast and it tastes delicious and moist. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Donna! I’m glad you enjoyed them. They are one of my favorite pancake recipes. 🙂
I’ll have to try these…honestly, pumpkin is not my favorite. It kind of overwhelms me. But I’m interested in trying it w/ the dark chocolate…sounds good for a Saturday morning!
I love pumpkin. It’s my favorite thing in the world. Although I just made an amazing squash dish last night. Details to come…
Joanna- They are SO good! And I guess we can share Curtis haha.
Kelly- Thanks, so happy to have you reading my posts. Just checked out your site. I love your beautiful pictures!
These look amazing and your pictures are so fun! Love your blog, so glad to be a new follower! xoxo
1. Those look yummy and Im gonna have to try them
2. You cant have Curtis Stone, he is mine!
3. We could share!
LOL
XOXO