Easy Pumpkin Pancakes🥞

It's been a while...long time no see. Haven't felt the desire to blog...I apologize to anyone who actually reads my stuff...

But I've had some ideas lately and what I made for breakfast this morning combined with the fact that "pumpkin season" is almost over gave me the motivation and desire to blog what we had for breakfast this morning...ha.😃

One of my "ideas" was to add a new recipe section for those times when I've experimented and concocted awesome easy recipes for "lazy" moments in life, or moments where maybe, perhaps (coughs) we don't have enough on hand to make said recipe from scratch...or we just don't feel like it. Today I was game for making homemade pumpkin pancakes from scratch, but behold...surprise, surprise, Carmen forgot something...flour. Can you believe? Who doesn't have flour in their pantry?

Apparently I ran out and it's been a while since I needed to use it, so here we are ready to make homemade pumpkin pancakes and there's no flour. But then...a little light bulb💡went off in my head, and I said, what if I use "boxed pancake mix" and then add in the other ingredients?🤔

And so, the experiment began...lazy girl pumpkin pancakes.🧐 And, voila, they were delicious,😋so I wanted to share. What I did was I shopped around for pumpkin pancake recipes before realizing I was out of flour.

I wrote down the recipe I wanted to use, and then combined some helpful tips and adjustments from people who tried the recipes and mixed up the recipes because they were fairly similar, adding in some things that others didn't have or omitting something that I didn't feel I needed or didn't like, like vinegar, that was in a few of the recipes but I omitted it.

And so, let the fun begin...here we go...🥳

Easy Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe🥞

4 Cups of Pancake Mix
1-15oz can of pure pumpkin
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1-1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
3-4 cups of water (when you get to the fourth cup, pour a little at a time till you get the right texture, not too thick, not too watered down.)
Optional: I found these in other recipes and decided to include them, but you don't have to. 3tbsp melted butter; 3tbsp maple syrup.
Also Optional! You could add in some fresh cranberries, diced apples, banana, etc. Yum... Next time I plan on adding in cranberries.
Also, also optional: Instead of using nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon, you can use "allspice." I didn't have allspice, so I made my own. To make your own allspice, you just simply combine equal parts of all three of the above: nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. Never realized how easy it was to do till I realized I didn't have that either and had to make mine from scratch!

I hope this helps someone out there like it helped me. Enjoy your easy pumpkin pancakes!😃

With Love,

💖Carmen