Pumpkin Protein Pancakes with Peanut Butter Pumpkin Syrup

These pumpkin protein pancakes will fill you up with semi-healthy goodness and make you excited to get up in the morning. (<-that’s the point of breakfast, right?) Plus the simple 3 ingredient syrup screams fall and won’t send you on a sugar high like most syrups.

 

Nope. Pumpkin season isn’t over. Thanks for asking.

Truth be told..I just came up with too many pumpkin ideas for one pumpkin week.

The Pancake Paradox

You know what’s weird? I don’t think I made pancakes for two years straight before October of this year.

I think I was intimidated for some reason.

Yes, I’m weird, but let me try to explain..

Maybe I went for too long without making them and then failed at one batch and didn’t even try for two whole years. It was like the thing that grows more and more daunting the longer you don’t do it. When really..it’s just pancakes?

Maybe it was the time commitment for a breakfast item. I am usually a hangry monster when I wake up and have no patience (or time) for cooking my breakfast. Thus I typically go with some version of nut butter on toast.

But once I got my FlapJacked pancake mix from Blend Retreat, I was hooked. It’s my new favorite thing. Like I have to stop myself from eating them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. #firstworldproblems

Something I don’t leave out of my breakfast though is the peanut butter. You can tell me it’s unhealthy or whatever, but I do Jif peanut butter almost daily. It makes me excited to get up in the morning. That and coffee. #yesplease

I created the most amazing syrup to drizzle over the top using only 3 ingredients: pumpkin, maple syrup and peanut butter. Yes. 

The protein pancakes are super thick and filling, the spices make you feel cozy and the melty syrup with a hint of pumpkin completes the perfect breakfast.

Is your mouth watering yet? Mine is!

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So anyways, after my two year dry spell, I’m addicted to pancakes now. I will cook up a big batch of them (usually munching on the first one as I go) so I have some for the rest of the week.

The best flavor of pancake mix I’ve tried from FlapJacked so far? The freaking Carrot Spice Flapjacked Protein Pancake Mix. It’s slightly spiced with little bits of carrot and everything. Who thinks of these amazing flavors?

I’m actually doing a giveaway on Instagram of this particularly decadent FlapJacked flavor, so you should probably check that out.

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Pumpkin Protein Pancakes with Peanut Butter Pumpkin Syrup (Makes 4 pancakes or 2 servings)

Ingredients:

1 cup almond milk

2 TBS pumpkin puree

Dry Ingredients:

1 cup buttermilk protein pancake mix (I used FlapJacked)

1 tsp cinnamon sugar

1/4 tsp pumpkin spice

For the skillet:

coconut oil spray

butter

Syrup:

1 TBS PB

1 TBS maple syrup

1 tsp pumpkin puree

How To:

1. Heat up a skillet on medium to medium-low heat. (You know it’s ready when you flick a little water and it sizzles.) Spray the pan with a little coconut oil spray and about 1 tsp butter (spread the butter around until it melts).

2. Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl. Add the rest of ingredients for the pumpkin protein pancakes and stir until just mixed. (It’s okay if it’s a tad lumpy.)

3. Portion about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake. Pour it into the skilled and flip when the edges are slightly firm (or until it’s flippable..they won’t form bubbles on the top like traditional buttermilk pancakes).

4. Melt all ingredients for peanut butter pumpkin syrup in the microwave for about 30 seconds in a microwave safe bowl. Stir until smooth. (might have to nuke them longer. do so in 15 second increments and stir each time.)

5. Pour peanut butter protein syrup on pancakes and dig in.

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Don’t forget to check out my Carrot Spice Pancake and Baking Mix giveaway on Instagram!!

Disclaimer: I was sent samples from FlapJacked to try out, but was not required to do any kind of review or recipe on my blog. I’ve also included a couple of affiliate links in case you want to purchase your own on Amazon. All thoughts and opinions are mine as per usual and I always appreciate your support for me and this space on the internets! 

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Holy wow I want all of these in my face right now. Maybe I should go eat dinner. 

Tell me…

Do you do pancake mix or make it from scratch?

Do you add stuff to the mix? I kind of want to try some berries next…

 

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