Carrot Cake or Broccoli Spice Pancakes

These carrot cake pancakes or waffles are the absolutely bomb.  I feed them to the kiddos for dinner and I know they are getting something healthy and delicious that will actually get eaten.

TIP: Never tell your children the true name of these pancakes.  They are simply Mickey Waffles or Chocolate Chip Pancakes or Spice Pancakes.

This recipe is adapted from Foodlets - my favorite foodie parent blog.

ingredients

This is where I amend the Foodlets recipe and make things easy.  I use this pancake mix they sell in the healthy section of Wegmans.  There are still a few weird preservatives in there, but it is quicker than making your own mix.

• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup of milk
• 2 cups finely grated carrots or frozen broccoli.  You literally just throw baby carrots or frozen broccoli into the food processor and voila.
• 1/4 cup wheat germ - I put wheat germ in everything!  Fiber!
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice
• Chocolate Chips, Sprinkles, something fun
• 3 tablespoons butter, for pan

You can add an egg to the mix if you want to make waffles.

instructions

Stir everything together.  

Heat skillet or griddle to medium, add butter then cook in batches of 4 pancakes. I dropped the batter from a 1/4 cup measuring cup without scooping it out entirely and this worked well.

Store in the oven on warm on aluminum foil until everyone is ready to eat.

Slather with butter and VT Maple Syrup.