I can’t say enough how much I love all sorts of dishes made with pumpkins & squashes. I don’t use them in sweet recipes as much as I’d like to as my husband is not a big fan of cakes and sweets made with them. So every time I make something sweet using pumpkin, I usually end up eating it all by myself :):)
I was a little sceptical about trying this recipe and worried that it might be yet another sweet pumpkin dish that my husband wouldn’t like. Apart from the usual spices there was one addition that I was pretty sure would save me and that was the dark chocolate chips. So I kept my fingers crossed and went for it, guess what it was a big success :):) We really liked the combination of pumpkin and chocolate. I do believe though that the amount of chocolate should be kept moderate as being the more dominant taste it might steal the show.
- 2 cups flour (280 gr)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 Tbs baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- 1½ cup buttermilk
- ¾ cup pumpkin puree
- 4 Tbs melted butter
- 1 Tbs honey
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ cup dark chocolate chips
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- To serve
- mascarpone
- honey
- walnut
- Mix all dry ingredients except the chocolate chips.
- Beat the eggs lightly, add in the pumpkin puree, buttermilk, honey, melted butter and vanilla extract.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix gently until just combined.
- Add in the chocolate chips, cover bowl with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 10 mins.
- Melt a knob of butter in a nonstick pan.
- Pour about ¼ cup batter into the pan and spread a little trying to form a neat circle. Cook until there are bubbles on the surface then flip and cook the other side for a couple of minutes.
- Remove pancakes to a serving dish and continue until you cooked all the batter.
- Serve them still warm with a dollop of mascarpone, a drizzle of honey and walnuts.
You can keep the pancakes in the oven at a very low temperature as you finish cooking the whole lot.
Recipe slightly adapted from www.halfbakedharvest.com