Halloween Pumpkin Pancakes with Black Cinnamon Syrup
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There’s nothing SCARY about making these orange pumpkin pancakes with black cinnamon syrup for Halloween breakfast or dinner. The whole family will be “dying” to make their own “spooky pancakes”
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Spooky Pumpkin Pancakes for Halloween
There’s nothing better than waking up to the smell of pancakes and bacon for breakfast. Pumpkin pancakes are always a favorite during the fall, and when I saw this idea at notmartha.org I knew I had to make them for Halloween!
Eating these pumpkin pancakes is so much more fun when you can draw your own design with the black cinnamon syrup. Not surprisingly the kids LOVED showing off their Pancake Picassos.
I don’t know about you, but we love breakfast for dinner! So before they go door to door for candy, you could make this Spooktacular breakfast for dinner!
There’s nothing SCARY about making these pumpkin pancakes!
Supplies used for Black Cinnamon Syrup
- Super Black Gel Food Coloring
- Squeeze Bottles
More Spooktacualr Halloween meal ideas:
Halloween Eyeball Pudding Treats for dessert!
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More Spooktacualr Halloween meal ideas:
Halloween Eyeball Pudding Treats for dessert!
Do you make any special food for Halloween?
Pumpkin Pancakes with Black Cinnamon Syrup
There's nothing SCARY about making these orange pumpkin pancakes with black cinnamon syrup for Halloween breakfast or dinner.
Ingredients
For Pumpkin Pancakes:
- 2 eggs
- 1 ¼ cups buttermilk
- 4 tablespoon butter, melted
- 5 tablespoon canned pumpkin
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon allspice
- few drops of orange gel food coloring
For Black Cinnamon Syrup:
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup water
- black food coloring gel
Instructions
To Make Pancakes:
- Preheat a skillet over medium heat. Coat pan with no-stick spray.
- Combine eggs, buttermilk, butter, pumpkin, sugar, and salt in a large bowl.
- Use an electric mixer to blend ingredients.
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and blend with a mixer until smooth. Add just a few drops of gel food coloring until you get a nice orange.
- Pour or scoop the batter onto a hot skillet, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake.
- When the batter stops bubbling and edges begin to harden, flip the pancakes. They should be golden brown. This will take from 1 to 2 minutes.
- Flip the pancakes and cook other side for the same amount of time, until golden brown.
To Make Black Cinnamon Syrup:
- In a saucepan combine all ingredients except for the food coloring gel. Bring to a boil, stirring continuously.
- As it starts to heat, add in a little of the black food coloring and mix in, add more until it’s as dark as can be (it doesn’t take much). Allow it to boil for a few moments until the mixture has thickened.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool enough to put into a squeeze bottle.
Notes
- You can make the syrup the night before and warm it by dipping the squeeze bottle in a bowl of warm water.
- I used the powdered buttermilk, this way I always have some on hand – if you use the powdered – replace buttermilk with 1-1/4 cup water in the wet ingredients, and add 5 tablespoons of buttermilk mix to the dry ingredients
- My skillet makes 4 pancakes at a time, I heat my oven to about 180°F and place cooked pancakes on a plate in the oven while I cook the next batch. Remove the plate to add another batch to the plate and place it back in the warm oven until all pancakes are cooked.
- These pumpkin pancakes freeze well too
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 16 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 126Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 32mgSodium: 157mgCarbohydrates: 21gFiber: 1gSugar: 11gProtein: 3g
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These are soooo cute Cheryl!! I think I might even be able to handle them. 🙂
My kids would love these!!! I love the orange and black color of the pancakes and syrup. Looking forward to meeting you in Napa.
The chocolate spider web is so adorable! I wish I could try to recreate something similar, but I am afraid mine won’t come out so neat. I guess a pumpkin is a bit easier to draw.
I love, love, love, love, love these.
Let me tell you how I really feel…
O.k. *seriously* how stinkin cute is that?? LOVE it Cheryl!
These are adorable. I’d never be able to create such cute (and recognizable) drawings with the syrup, but I’ll just convince myself the black blobs are Halloweeny in their own way.
These are darling. I’m going to have to use this with my little guy. He will love it.
Creepy and fun!! Thanks!
This is so cool! My kids would love these.
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Wow, these are absolutely darling!! SO cute. I must make them… but the black syrup is a little bit scary!
I LOVE this idea!
Such a fun I’d for a Halloween breakfast!
These are absolutely adorable! I think I”ll have to surprise my kids with these on Halloween morning.
Too cute! I just have to share this in my Halloween Hodge Podge today. Thanks for the idea!!!
Love those! The idea of creating jack-o-lantern pancakes is too cute.
Thanks Cheryl!
Hi Cheryl! I am making Paula Deen’s Ooey Gooey pumpkin bars for a Halloween party this weekend and I’m going to decorate the top with this black cinnamon syrup. I’m so excited! Thanks for the idea.
Those are too stinkin’ adorable!
Love love love this recipe! I made it for my kids this morning. However, my spiders really looked like gooey ticks. So I’m renaming them “Halloween Tick Pancakes”. I posted a photo of them on Facebook!
These are awesome Cheryl!! Thanks for linking up. The black syrup is fabulous 🙂
Thank you so much for hosting…I LOVE your blog, it’s awesome!
Very cool pancakes…my kids will love them!
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I’m not a great pancake maker…I think b/c I have really bad ADD in the kitchen! Do you have any suggestions on how to alter the batter for waffles?
Thanks!!!
These look seriously awesome! I think I may be able to use these to trick my daughter into eating a vegetable…
What a fantastic idea! My weekly linky party–One Creative Weekend–has gone spooky this week in honor of my thirteenth party. If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll visit “One Creative Weekend”
Oh my goodness, what a perfect Halloween breakfast! I love how bright and orange the pumpkin pancakes are with that deep black syrup! So fun!
Cheryl- these are so cool! My kids would flip for these pancakes!!
those look fun and yummy!
These are crazy cute!!! And not sure why I have never thought of pumpkin in my pancakes!!
Those look SO cool….
This is the perfect breakfast for this Halloween season!
My kids would go nuts over those. I need to do that on Halloween morning.
Cute! Cute! Cute! My kids will think these are so cool.
So adorable and “spooky” 😀 Love them!
That’s quite an impressive spider! I’m pretty sure mine would look like a 2nd grader did it…
These are the cutest, Cheryl! So creative and perfect for the season.
great idea Cheryl! Love these! You are so creative!
Such a cute idea! And that cinnamon syrup sounds so good…
Such a fun idea, your syrup spider is perfectly piped!
What a fun idea this is! Thank you for sharing it. I’ve featured your post in my “Halloween Meals” blog post today so that others can enjoy it too.
FUN!! Awesome spider. Our girls would LOVE this!!
These were so delicious! We will make these over and over again! I didn’t use color on the pancakes because the pumpkin made them orange enough for me. I added a 1/4 tsp of salt to the syrup and it was perfect. Thanks so much for sharing. Found this on Pinterest.
Daisy would love to play with her food!
I have to do this for her. Thanks, Cheryl!