Healthy Carrot Cake Pancakes with Greek Cream Cheese
Healthy Carrot Cake Pancakes! These moist, mildly spiced pancakes taste like real carrot cake only in breakfast form and better for you too!
Servings: 9 servings
Ingredients
For the Pancakes:
- 1 cup grated carrots
- 1 cup Gluten Free oat flour or regular oat flour
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
- 2/3 cup unsweetened almond milk or milk of choice
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil melted
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/8 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
- 1/4 cup raisins
- Optional: crushed walnuts
For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 2 tablespoons Greek cream cheese or low fat cream cheese
- 2 teaspoons unsweetened almond milk or milk of choice
Instructions
- Preheat an electric skillet to medium heat (or 325 F).
- In a large bowl combine the Greek yogurt, milk, coconut oil, maple syrup and vanilla. Then add the baking soda, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins and unsweetened coconut flakes and fold to combine the ingredients evenly.
- Scoop 1/4 cup of the batter onto the preheated skillet to form one pancake. Using a spatula, spread and flatten the batter. Repeat for the remaining batter.
- Bake 3-5 minutes until the edges begin to appear golden brown.
- While the pancakes bake, add the ingredients for the frosting to a small plastic sandwich bag. Squeeze the ingredients together to blend and soften the cream cheese a bit. Set aside.
- Flip the pancakes and cook another 3-5 minutes on the other side. Transfer to a wire baking rack to cool.
- Serve the pancakes with the cream cheese frosting on top by cutting a small tip off the end of the sandwich bag and squeezing the frosting onto the pancakes.
Notes
- Nutritional values are for the pancakes without the cream cheese frosting.
Calories with the cream cheese frosting are 112. - My Amazon shop has more products similar to those used for this recipe and that I recommend to my nutrition clients.
Nutrition
Serving: 1pancake | Calories: 96kcal | Carbohydrates: 15.2g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 2.2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 0.6mg | Sodium: 26.3mg | Fiber: 2.3g | Sugar: 4.9g