I love cranberry and enjoy it throughout the season. After Thanksgiving when there are lots of leftovers that we need to use I love to make some cranberry pancakes with the leftover home made cranberry sauce. This year I wanted to try something new so I decided to add eggnog as well. Eggnog and cranberry have become one of my favorite combinations for this holiday season and I just keep using these two traditional holiday flavors together to make all sorts of delicious treats.
I really liked how these turned out and the kids loved them too. The tartness and slight bitterness of the cranberries really compliments and balances off the sweetness of the eggnog so that the pancakes are full of flavor but are not too sweet. You can top these with light whipped cream and some additional cranberry sauce.
I used the leftover cranberry sauce from Thanksgiving for these as we made them for breakfast the next day. You can find my recipe for cranberry sauce HERE. If you want to make a healthier version of the cranberry sauce simply substitute the sugar for stevia. I use stevia because it’s the only sweetener that I have found that does not have an after taste and most importantly it’s all natural and you can replace sugar for stevia using the exact same quantities.
In this recipe I used Silk nog, made from soy milk, because it has about half the calories of regular eggnog and is also has less fat but you can substitute Silk nog for a light eggnog or make your own skinny eggnog.
Healthy Eggnog Cranberry Pancakes
Ingredients
- 2 cups white whole wheat flour
- 4 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp stevia
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 4 egg whites
- 2 cups Silk Nog
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup home made whole berry cranberry sauce
- cooking spray
Instructions
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Mix Silk nog, egg whites and vanilla extract in a bowl.
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Mix flour, baking powder, stevia, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg in another bowl.
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Beat wet mix into dry mix roughly, so as to add more air to mix.
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Add cranberry sauce and fold into mixture.
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Spray non-stick olive oil onto griddle or skillet and preheat.
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Pour batter onto hot griddle.
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When pancake bubbles around edges and towards center turn.
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Pancakes are done when golden brown.
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Serve hot and drizzle with maple syrup, honey or dulce de leche.
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Top with whipped cream and garnish with chopped pecans
Paula studied architecture and now makes a living as a freelance writer,traveler and amateur photographer.She started her writing & publishing career as the editor of Bebé y Mamá, the first parenting magazine in Guatemala.She is the founder of www.GrowingUpBilingual.com and www.365thingsswfl.com and writes articles in Spanish and English for both magazines and the web on travel,food and bicultural and bilingual parenting .
When she is not on a plane or road trip she likes to create recipes inspired in the flavors of her native Guatemala.
Oh dear! Looks very yummy and inviting. I love the plating too and how you decorate it. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I can grab the egg nog tomorrow, I love that this has Stevia, I use something similar.
I like eggnog and cranberries. I never thought about combining them in a pancake before. thanks for a good suggestion.
omg! I never thought of using eggnog for pancakes. hehehe… just bought a half gallon yesterday and will try making a pancake with it 😀
Mmmmm, yummm! My family loves pancakes and we haven’t tried using eggnog, so maybe one of these days, I can make one like this.
Another one pinned!! Love the thought of the agridulce combo- gonna try this one. BB2U
Qué delicia de combinación! Ese va a ser el desayuno del próximo fin de semana 😉
I’m not really a big fan of cranberry but the pancakes looks so yummy! Thanks for the recipe, this will be a great breakfast to try.
Good and healthy recipe you have here, i’m pretty sure it would something my husband would like to try.
Ohh, this is something that my son was craving this morning.
They look delicious! I wonder if I could use almond flour instead of the white whole wheat flour..
Thank you for the recipe
This looks so good,Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Looks delicious! I love cranberries. Thanks for the recipe.
What a great protein meal – and you could make it even more so by replacing 1/2 the flour with soy protein, which is what my brother the weight lifter would do!
Muy delicioso!!
A me encanta el sabor del eggnog y el cranberry.. Pero no me hubiera imaginado la combinación en un pancake… Definitivamente que voy a tratar la receta.. Que rico.
Que delicia! Son mis favoritos! Muchas gracias por la receta Querida Paula!
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Me encanta esta receta! Specially at this time of year the eggnog and cranberry flavors are so appreciated. Plan to make them for our Christmas breakfast. Gracias.
Que rica receta jamas me hubiera imaginado todos estos sabores juntos el eggnog y cranberry en un pancake, gracias por compartirla ademas se ve muy saludable lo ideal para esta dieta saludable que estoy comenzando a llevar Saludos!