For breakfast this morning I did what some moms dread, I put food coloring in our food. Now you might be wondering why, since I try so hard to avoid coloring in all of the food I give my children. Well yesterday we were at JoAnn’s and Isabelle picked up one of their circulars to read as her “magazine.” In the circular was an ad for a Halloween cookie decorating kit. The cookies featured were pumpkins and she thought they were pancakes and not cookies. Straight away her request was to have pumpkin pancakes for breakfast the next day. Posed with the question this morning, the only thing I could come up with on short notice was to dye the mixture for our breakfast.
I’m sure had I more time and a few more resources on hand, sweet potatoes, or pumpkin puree I could have made a healthier option than dyed pancakes. Here's a like that looks pretty good and makes more than 8 pancakes. I'm sure you could use fresh pumpkin instead of canned.
Needless to say they were gone pretty quick. Ben did not even get to try one, I think I made my mix wrong, usually we have a few left over but there were no leftovers today and they were a little flat. Oh well, the kids still ate them and loved every bite. I think the most important part to them was to have the color. Isabelle even asked for green stems. That was not going to happen, I'm not that cool.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Pumpkin Pancakes, want one?
Posted by Allison and Ben at 8:15 AM
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OOO I bet sweet potato pancakes would be yummy. My uncle started the smurf berry pancakes (blue dye) and green eggs and ham (of course, green dye) My mother had to start naming our food after that. Although she didn't add food coloring. It always worked. We ate flying saucers ( tostatas) And wonderwomen french toast (french toast made with texas bread) It's fun. But my kids even today will not eat anything that is not ordinary so I must not have the magic touch. I can't even serve speghetti with different noodles.
No offense but those pancakes look a little creepy ;-). I'll bet the pumpkin or sweet potato would be yummy! Good for you, though, for giving your daughter her pumpkin pancakes - food coloring and all!
I've made pumpkin pancakes before and served them with pumpkin butter. Very tasty! Perfect for a fall weekend morning. I'm glad you found a way to make pumpkin pancakes for Isabelle.
What a fun idea! I think I might try those this week, and maybe even try the green stems too.
Pumpkin Pancakes and French Toast are great. I had a recipe in my deceptively delicious cook book for the French Toast, but I actually prefer it in pancakes. I double the amount of pumpkin I add now.
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