P & C Fitness NJ

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I don’t know about you but once September hits our house is about nothing but pumpkins until the day after Thanksgiving. We decorate with pumpkins everywhere and are constantly eating pumpkin spiced foods. I always eat eggs for breakfast, but a few times a year I make exceptions for some pumpkin spice pancakes. The pancakes we usually make only have a total of 4 ingredients – with two additional optional seasonings. They are extremely macro-friendly. The macro-breakdown can be found at the bottom of the page, enjoy!

The four main ingredients used in this recipe are oats, pumpkin, egg and protein powder. Quick oats will definitely work better than old fashioned oats. If I was more ambitious, I would have taken my food processor and ground the oats into oat flour, I’ll try that next time. Depending on how thick and fluffy you like you your pancakes you can also add water to the mix as well.

We used chocolate protein powder in this recipe, but any flavor protein would do. Our current protein powder brand of choice is Naked Nutrition. We really like Naked Nutrition because the protein is so clean and free from additives and chemicals. We love the Less Naked Chocolate Whey because there are only three ingredients. Most of the other protein brands on the market will have a paragraph long list of ingredients that are hard to pronounce. For more information or to purchase this for yourself head over to their website Naked Nutrition and browse around!

These pancakes will cook best on a non-stick pan. I recommend letting the pan heat up for a few minutes before you put the pancakes on it. The hotter the pan is the less likely they will be to stick. Each side of the pancake will have to cook for about two minutes, depending on how hot your stove gets. If you’re going to be making these using an electric stove, I would cook it for a little extra longer.

These pancakes will also taste better if you eat them or serve them off of fall themed pumpkin plates. There’s just something about consuming pumpkin flavored goodies off of pumpkin themed plates! I usually eat these without any butter or syrup. I also tend to lightly season the pancakes with pumpkin pie spice while cooking, which is completely optional see the recipe below for full details. The recipe yields enough pancakes for one person, but this can be easily doubled or tripled!