Apple Cinnamon Pancakes, light and fluffy cinnamon spiced pancakes with a maple-flavored apple topping.

In case you didn’t know, today is National Pancake Day, and in celebration I’m sharing a festive, fall pancake recipe that I think you’re gonna love — Apple Cinnamon Pancakes! These cinnamon spiced pancakes are light and fluffy with a maple-flavored homemade apple topping that’s really simpler to make than you might think.

John is usually the official pancake cook at our house, so while he was mixing up his normal pancake batter recipe (to which he added cinnamon) and heating up the griddle, I peeled and diced a couple of apples for the topping. That was literally the most difficult thing about this recipe, so I know you can tackle it!

Because the apples are diced into small pieces, they cook very quickly. Within five minutes, this sauce is done and ready to pour over your stacks of pancakes! I used Golden Delicious apples, but really any type of apples will work just fine in this easy recipe.

When the girls were small, we often made chocolate chip pancakes sprinkled with powdered sugar as a special treat on Saturdays. (I know, I know…sugar overload!). Not that there’s anything wrong with chocolate chip pancakes, but now we also enjoy more “sophisticated” pancakes like today’s Apple Cinnamon Pancakes, Raspberry Oatmeal Pancakes, Lemon Poppy Seed Ricotta Pancakes, Peach and Sour Cream Pancakes, or Pumpkin Walnut Flapjacks. There’s nothing boring about any of those pancakes!

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”

“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”

“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.

–Winnie the Pooh

Yields 8 pancakes

Apple Cinnamon Pancakes {#nationalpancakeday}

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Ingredients

Pancakes

1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour2 tablespoons sugar2 teaspoons baking powder1/2 teaspoon salt1 teaspoon cinnamon1 egg, beaten1 cup milk1 tablespoon canola oil

Apple topping

2 tablespoon butter2 apples, peeled, cored, and diced2 tablespoons brown sugar1/2 teaspoon cinnamon1/3 cup maple syrup1/3 cup chopped walnuts

Instructions

Pancakes

In a large bowl stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. In a small bowl combine egg, milk, and oil; then pour all at once into dry ingredients. Stir until blended, but still a little lumpy.Heat griddle to medium high heat and spray lightly with cooking spray. Pour batter by 1/4 cupfuls on the hot griddle and cook until golden brown; flipping once to cook other side. (Pancakes are ready to flip once the surface is bubbly all over.)

Apple topping

To a medium sauce pan, add butter, apples, brown sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Stir and cook over medium heat 3-5 minutes, or until apples are tender. Add maple syrup and serve over warm pancakes. Garnish with chopped walnuts.

Notes

Apple topping recipe from Le Creme De La Crumb .

6.6.16

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