How To Make Carrot Cake Pancakes
Switch up your regular pancakes with our slightly healthier pancakes recipe! It tastes just like carrot cake, and comes with a creamy cream cheese glaze.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1½carrotsfinely shredded
- ¼cupunsalted butterdiced into 1 tbsp pieces, plus more for griddle
- 2cupsall-purpose flour
- 2tspground cinnamon
- ¼tspground nutmeg
- ¼tspground ginger
- 1½tspbaking powder
- 1tspbaking soda
- ½tsp salt
- 1½cupsbuttermilk
- ¼cupmilk
- ¼cuplight-brown sugarpacked
- 3large eggs
- 1tspvanilla extract
- ½cuppecansor walnuts, chopped
For Cream Cheese Glaze:
- 8ozcream cheese softened
- ¼cupunsalted buttersoftened
- 2cupspowdered sugar
- ⅓cupmilk
- ½tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
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Melt butter in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat.
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Once butter is melted, add carrots and saute just until tender, for 3 minutes.
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Remove from heat and set aside until cool .
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Heat an electric griddle to 375 degrees F.
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In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 20 seconds.
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In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together buttermilk, milk, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla.
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Add the carrot mixture to the buttermilk mixture, then whisk to combine.
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Add flour mixture into buttermilk mixture, then whisk just until combined.
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Butter griddle or skillets and drop about ⅓ cup batter at a time onto griddle.
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Spread into an even round shapes, about 5-inches wide.
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Cook until bottom is golden brown then flip and cook the opposite side.
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Repeat process until all of the batter has been used up.
Cream Cheese Glaze:
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In a mixing bowl using an electric hand mixer, cream together cream cheese and butter until smooth and fluffy.
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Mix in powdered sugar, milk and vanilla extract.
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Serve pancakes topped with cream cheese glaze and pecans, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 5066.30kcal
- Fat: 464.29g
- Saturated Fat: 253.23g
- Trans Fat: 14.89g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 142.03g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 36.80g
- Carbohydrates: 221.22g
- Fiber: 11.15g
- Sugar: 191.73g
- Protein: 34.36g
- Cholesterol: 1093.01mg
- Sodium: 2892.14mg
- Calcium: 944.87mg
- Potassium: 1505.55mg
- Iron: 5.59mg
- Vitamin A: 3467.50µg
- Vitamin C: 1.69mg
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