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Luke’s Diners Pumpkin Pancakes

Copycat fluffy pumpkin pancakes from Luke’s Diner on Gilmore girls with cinnamon butter and maple syrup. This is the viral TIKTOK recipe that everyone is making right now to kickstart the season of autumn. Talk about an easy one bowl breakfast pancake recipe.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Course Breakfast, Brunch
Cuisine American
Servings 5 Large Pancakes

Equipment

  • Small sauce pot
  • Large saute pan
  • Large mixing bowl
  • Whisk
  • Rubber spatula
  • Flat metal spatula

Ingredients
  

Pumpkin pancakes

  • 3 tbsp brown butter
  • 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
  • 1 cup butter milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp pumpkin spice
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder

Cinnamon butter

  • 4 tbsp butter room temperature
  • 8 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Serve

  • Maple syrup

Instructions
 

  • Start my browning butter on low heat in a small sauce pot until it is nutty, toasted and brown should take 2-4 mins.
  • Add it into a bowl, with the pumpkin puree, brown sugar and whisk until smooth. Add the milk, eggs, vanilla and mix again.
  • We then want to add the dry ingredients- we add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pumpkin spice and cinnamon. Switch to a rubber spatula and fold until combined. Do not over mix the batter.
  • Using a half measuring cup for the batter, pour it into a non stick sauté pan on low to medium heat, cook the pancake for 1 1/2 minutes, you know it's ready to flip when you see small bubbles forming on the surface of the pancake. With a metal spatula confidently slide it under the pancake and flip it, cook it for another 1 1/2 minute on the other side, you know it's ready when it is puffed up in the centre which means it is cooked all the way through. Continue this process until you finished all the batter.
  • To make the cinnamon butter we mix all the ingredients in a bowl until smooth,
  • Serve the pancakes stacked on top of each other with the cinnamon butter on top and drizzle over Maple syrup in the perfect Luke’s diner style.

Notes

  • Do not over mix the pancake batter.
  • Keep the heat on low to medium when cooking the pancakes for even cooking and coloring.
  • If you are not using a non stick pan you will need to add little butter to grease the pan before cooking the pancakes.