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<\/p>\nThese Carrot Cake Pancakes are filled with warm spices like cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg, shredded carrots, and nuts. They’re whole-grain, “flourless,” gluten-free, and refined sugar-free. Top them with a maple cream cheese syrup for extra pizzazz. This is a decadent, healthy breakfast that you don’t wanna miss!<\/p>\n
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Okay.. saying sometimes<\/em> is kind of a lie.. it’s my favorite thing to do! I love eating healthy, but I also love decadent, rich flavors<\/strong>, so what’s a girl to do? Turn every healthy breakfast she makes into something decadent too, of course! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n These Carrot Cake Pancakes are a prime example of that. Made with gluten-free oats (turned to oat flour), these healthy pancakes are whole grain, “flourless,” gluten-free, naturally sweetened, and filled with shredded carrots and nuts.<\/p>\n If you’d REALLY like to have dessert-for-breakfast, then you top them with maple cream cheese syrup.<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s not healthy, and it’s optional. But, it takes these pancakes to the next level and really makes them “Carrot Cake Pancakes.” After all, what’s Carrot Cake without cream cheese frosting?!<\/p>\n First, to keep these pancakes gluten-free you’ll need to use certified gluten-free oat flour or oats<\/strong>. If you prefer, you could make these with regular flour or a gluten-free all purpose flour as well. Or, you could do a blend of oat flour and all purpose.<\/p>\n If you use oat flour that’s too grainy, these pancakes may not stay together well. Be sure to use a very fine oat flour.<\/strong> If you can’t get your flour blended up fine enough in your food processor or high powered blender, I recommend buying this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n To make these pancakes dairy-free,<\/strong> you can use almond milk (or another comparable milk), coconut oil (or dairy-free butter alternative) and omit the cream cheese syrup. Just regular maple syrup is still delicious!<\/p>\n Lastly, you can make these pancakes vegan<\/strong> if you’d like with the dairy-free adjustments above, as well as one flax or chia egg (1 tbsp flax\/chia seed mixed with 2.5 tbsp water, sit till gelled).<\/p>\n If you like shredded coconut in your Carrot Cake, feel free to add about 1\/4 cup or so of shredded coconut to these pancakes as well.<\/p>\n After making your pancake batter, be sure to let it rest for about 10 minutes.<\/strong> This gives the oat flour time to soak up the wet ingredients and get thicker. After 10 minutes, you’ll want to check your batter and see if it’s too thin or thick. If it’s too thin, add a little more flour. If it’s too thick, add a little more milk.<\/p>\n To cook these pancakes correctly (with oat flour), you’ll want to cook them low and slow.<\/strong> Oat flour is thick, which means it’s easy to cook the outside of the pancakes without cooking the inside properly. You’ll want to keep your pan or griddle on a medium-medium low heat, and cook them a little longer than traditional pancakes.<\/p>\n You’ll want to be sure your brick of cream cheese is at room temperature<\/strong>, for best results. If your cream cheese is too cold it won’t blend properly, and instead you’ll end up with little bits of cream cheese throughout your syrup. No good. After mixing together your cream cheese, maple syrup, and coconut oil (or butter), add a little milk if it’s still too thick. It will be a thicker syrup but should still be drippy.<\/p>\n Hearty Carrot Cake Pancakes are the perfect Spring or Easter breakfast! I love the spices, and sneaking a little veggies into breakfast feels good too.<\/p>\n I hope you give these Carrot Cake Pancakes a shot and let me know what you think! After you make them, leave a comment and a star rating, below. And take a picture and tag me on Instagram<\/a> too!<\/p>\n Looking for other fun, easy, healthy AND decadent breakfast options?<\/strong> Check out my Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies<\/a> or Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pancakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Stack](\"https:\/\/www.milehighmitts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ccpancakes5.jpg\")
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To make the Cream Cheese Maple Syrup…<\/h4>\n
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