Halloween Flapjack Stack

Happy Halloween Eve Eve!

Whether for breakfast or for dinner here's something fun to try in celebration of the best night of the year ever!  Halloween Flapjack Stacks have alternating layers of pumpkin and chocolate-cinnamon pancakes, dolloped with some "fresh" whip cream and sprinkled with nutmeg for good effect.  Smother with some of your favorite syrup and you will enjoy a sugar coma to rival that of any candy-gathering excursion.

NU-UMMMM!

Halloween Flapjack Stacks

pumpkin pancake mix

1 cup flour
1 tbsp sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup milk
1/2 cup pumpkin puree
2 tbsp veggie oil

Mix dry ingredients together.

Whisk together pumpkin puree with the milk to make it easier to mix.

Whisk wet ingredients into the dry until mixture is fairly smooth and slightly bubbly.

chocolate-cinnamon pancake mix

1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs, beaten
1-1/4 cup milk

Mix dry ingredients together.

Whisk wet ingredients into dry until mixture is fairly smooth and slightly bubbly (getting that sense of deja vu?).

Heat griddle or large, flat skillet to medium hot.  Spray with baking spray or melt a teaspoon of butter in pan to coat. 

Pour mixture to form 4" pancakes.  When the bubbles start to pop, carefully flip the jack to cook on other sides.

To keep the early batches of jacks warm, heat oven to warm (200 degrees) and put jacks an oven safe dish until ready to serve.

When they're done, stack them alternating the pumpkin and chocolate-cinnamon pancakes.  Syrup, dollop, spinkle, eat, happy smile.

NOTES

Either pancake on their own would make a great base for a dessert.  Serve with a scoop of ice cream and drizzle with your favorite sauce -- for example, pumpkin pancake with butter pecan ice cream and some caramel sauce or chocolate-cinnamon pancake with peppermint ice cream and some hot fudge -- use your imagination and go crazy.