{"id":7384,"date":"2010-12-28T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T17:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymouse.com\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2011-09-11T21:10:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T02:10:55","slug":"gingerbread-pancakes-for-post-christmas-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/28\/gingerbread-pancakes-for-post-christmas-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Pancakes for Post-Christmas Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for a pick-me-up to kill the post-Christmas blues? These gingerbread pancakes are easy to mix together the night before, just leaving the liquid ingredients until just before tossing on a hot griddle. They’re perfect served with butter and syrup, but add a bit of orange zest and you’ll be in breakfast heaven.<\/em>
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\nI dislike the post-Christmas week. You’ve worked and planned and baked and cleaned, hid gifts and wrapped them with anticipation. Perhaps you even squealed with delight as dinner was served and gifts were exchanged and opened. But today. Today, the party is over, and there’s still so much to do with all the cleaning, organizing and getting back to work.
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So, rather than sulk around while I pick up the pieces of Christmas past, I’m celebrating the coming of the New Year with pancakes. Not just any pancakes, though. Gingerbread pancakes with plenty of spice and flavor to make me feel all warm and cozy tucked in the house away from the cold with my own personal soundtrack coming through the speakers and the Christmas carols behind me as I pack away ornaments until next year.
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Start by mixing together all the dry ingredients: flour, brown sugar, baking powder and soda, salt, plenty of cinnamon, ground ginger, cloves and nutmeg. I use a whisk because it breaks up clumps, especially brown sugar clumps.
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\nSeparate from those dry ingredients take 4 tablespoons of melted but slightly cooled butter. Add in eggs and beat together.
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\nAlong with the milk.
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\nAdd the wet ingredients to the dry and stir just until mixed.
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\nBut don’t worry about lumps. In the pancake world, overmixing is bad and lumps are good.
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\nAnd then cook your pancakes up in a greased pan over medium heat. Forget about pictures. I got distracted trying to pour batter into cookie cutters to make cute pancakes, which, as it turns out, doesn’t work so well if you have nothing to hold the cookie cutter down with. I haven’t completely given up, though. A gingerbread-man-shaped gingerbread pancake will be mine eventually. I’m thinking a squirt bottle \u00e0 la Jim<\/a> may be necessary.
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\nGingerbread men or not, the recipients of these pancakes were eager to dig in.
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\nAnd with good reason.
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\nWhether you’re battling the post-Christmas blues or you’re just the snowed-in and buried, whip up a few cheery pancakes for a brighter outlook on the next 3 months of winter ahead of us. You could also pretend I didn’t remind you that there are three months of winter ahead. That may help a bit, too.
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Gingerbread Pancakes<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n

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\n1 1\/2 cups whole wheat flour<\/span>
\n1 1\/2 cups all-purpose flour<\/span>
\n1\/4 cup dark brown brown sugar<\/span>
\n1 1\/2 teaspoons baking powder<\/span>
\n1 teaspoon baking soda<\/span>
\n3\/4 teaspoon salt<\/span>
\n2 tablespoons cinnamon<\/span>
\n1 1\/2 tablespoons ground ginger<\/span>
\n1\/2 teaspoon cloves<\/span>
\n1\/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg<\/span>
\n2 eggs<\/span>
\n2 1\/2 cups whole milk<\/span>
\n4 tablespoons melted butter, partially cooled<\/span>
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Whisk together flours, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg in a large bowl. Beat eggs, milk and melted butter and then stir into the flour mix just until wet, leaving a few lumps. On a medium heat in a pan or on a flat griddle melt butter to grease and cook pancakes until lightly browned on both sides.
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Serve with butter and a bit of orange zest and pure maple syrup.<\/span>
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\nMakes approximately 20 medium-sized pancakes.
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Looking for a pick-me-up to kill the post-Christmas blues? These gingerbread pancakes are easy to mix together the night before, just leaving the liquid ingredients until just before tossing on a hot griddle. They’re perfect served with butter and syrup, but add a bit of orange zest and you’ll be in breakfast heaven. I dislike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56,23,10],"tags":[549,109,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-7384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breakfast","7":"category-featured","8":"category-recipes","9":"tag-gingerbread-pancakes","10":"tag-pancakes","11":"tag-winter","12":"entry","13":"has-post-thumbnail"},"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}