9 Grain Carrot Cake Pancakes with Butter Toffee Sour Cream Syrup

We love pancakes. What's not to love about fluffy confections that you can drizzle in syrup and eat any time of the day? My youngest son will, at any given time, drop everything and ask for pancakes. No doubt he got that love of pancakes from his adorable daddy.  My husband Ace would eat them every single day. Oh. He does. That is his breakfast almost every day. He's adorable that way. Adorable. Once in a very long while he'll ask for something else, but usually it's pancakes. Whenever I complain about his habit in that regard he'll usually shoot back his heart-melting puppy-dog expression and say, "Steph, when I find something I like, I stick with it." Sigh. Swoon. He loves me forever. Oddly enough, I get a little tired of the same old pancake. I like to switch things up. I also have a mad-sick-evil love for carrot cake. Don't ask me how it started. I don't know all the secrets of the universe that bring together two perfectly paired atoms in the cosmos. Why question fate? Why?  Enters {dramatically with 2001 Space Odyssey music playing boldly in the foreground}...the 9 grain carrot cake pancake of extreme glory drizzled with the ever evil-divine butter toffee sour cream syrup. Sigh. Swoon. I'll love them forever. Something is coming...something wonderful.

Are you ready for the big shocker on this? You can make them sugar free. Yup. This is actually sweetened naturally with a low calorie beauty. How cool am I feeling right now? I can't really tell you with a mouth full of carrot cake. Grin.

9 Grain Carrot Cake Pancakes

with Butter Toffee Sour Cream Syrup

1 c Chef Tess 9 Grain Baking Mix

1/3 cup granulated erythritol  (zero calorie natural sweetener)

1/2 tsp Chef Tess Wise Woman of the East Spice Blend

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup fine shredded carrot

2/3 cup water

Combine all ingredients and cook on a medium hot griddle as you would regular pancakes.

Now we need syrup right?

The first time I ever shared this Butter Toffee Sour Cream Syrup was when I posted the recipe for the Gluten Free Butterscotch Pecan Buckwheat Pancakes. Those are amazing drizzled with this syrup. I'm not going to lie. This syrup over the carrot cake pancakes nearly made me pass out. It is just a deliriously-divine combination.Yup. Incandescently happy. The being kissed by Mr. Darcy kind-of-happy. {Pride and Prejudice aside my darlings, I think he's adorable.}
That being said, here's the recipe for the butter toffee sour cream syrup.

Chef Tess' Butter Toffee Sour Cream Syrup

1/2 cup fat free sour cream
2T butter
1 cup sugar or  granulated erythritol  (zero calorie natural sweetener) 
1 tsp ultra gel
1/2 tsp English Toffee flavor oil
2T hot water
Directions: Combine all the ingredients in a sauce pan. Bring to a boil and boil 2 minutes until sugar is dissolved. Stir well. Serve warm over hot pancakes. Store any un-used portion in the fridge. Yields 1 1/2 cups.
Butter Toffee Sour Cream Syrup Mix

1/2 powdered sour cream

2T  powdered butter

1 cup sugar or granulated erythritol  (zero calorie natural sweetener)

1 teaspoon cornstarch or ultra gel

1/2 tsp English Toffee flavor oil

1/2 cup hot water

To make the syrup, combine the dry ingredients and the flavored oil. Stir well. Add the hot water and bring to a simmer over low heat in a medium size heavy bottom sauce pan. Cook 2-3 minutes until sugar is dissolved. Do not over-cook or the syrup will get very thick. Serve over the pancakes. Store unused portion in the fridge after use. I doubt there'll be much left over. 

There you go. Make some carrot cake pancakes. Sigh. Swoon. You'll love them forever.

Always My Very Best,
Your Friend Chef Tess

Butterscotch Pecan Buckwheat Pancake with Butter-Toffee Sour Cream Syrup

Monday I try to share a little about cooking with food storage. Since I started writing the book on cooking with food storage for Honeyville, it has seemed to spill into some of the rest of my posts. I'm sorry about that. I'm trying to keep a balance. But, since today is the official day, I'm showing you my new favorite addiction. Buckwheat pancakes. I love them! They're gluten free and soooo pretty to make, it's a wonder that I haven't been making them every single day for the last ten years. Buckwheat is also a very good source of protein and the fiber is just outstanding!  Recently I had the insane idea of also making the Butter Toffee Sour Cream Syrup. It is my own recipe...and I have to tell you that the combination of the lightly nutty and beautiful buckwheat pancakes with a kiss of butterscotch are just completely made whole by the syrup. Oh the syrup...the syrup...is Evil. Liquid evil. You will never recover. I swear you'll hate me. But...that's a risk I'm willing to take.

My Butterscotch Pecan Buckwheat Pancakes

Ingredients: 

1 1/2 cup certified gluten free buckwheat flour or the organic is here. (I milled my own)

2 T sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

2T Melted butter or olive oil

2 eggs

1 1/4 cup low fat buttermilk or unsweetened soy milk

1/2 tsp butterscotch oil or 1tsp butterscotch flavor

1/4 cup fine chopped toasted pecans (optional)

Combine the dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, combine the wet ingredients and mix well. Combine the wet and the dry ingredients.  Cook on a hot oiled griddle until bubbles come to the top, flip pancakes and cook on the other side. Serve hot with Butter Toffee Sour Cream syrup.

To make the Pancake mix for later use:

11/2 cups Buckwheat flour

2T sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

2T powdered butter 

1/4 cup whole egg powder

1/4 cup instant non-fat dry milk or soy milk powder

1/2 tsp butterscotch oil (blend into the dry ingredients)

1/4 cup fine chopped toasted pecans

Add 1 1/2 cups water to mix. Stir with a whisk to combine. Cook on a hot oiled griddle until bubbles come to the top then flip the pancakes and cook on the other side. Serve hot with butter toffee sour cream syrup.

Chef Tess' Butter Toffee Sour Cream Syrup

1/2 cup fat free sour cream
2T butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp ultra gel
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp English Toffee flavor oil
2T hot water

Directions: Combine all the ingredients in a sauce pan. Bring to a boil and boil 2 minutes until sugar is dissolved. Stir well. Serve warm over hot pancakes. Store any un-used portion in the fridge. Yields 1 1/2 cups.

Butter Toffee Sour Cream Syrup Mix

1/2 powdered sour cream

2T  powdered butter

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon cornstarch or ultra gel

1/2 tsp English Toffee flavor oil

1/2 cup hot water

To make the syrup, combine the dry ingredients and the oil. Stir well. Add the hot water and bring to a simmer over low heat in a medium size heavy bottom sauce pan. Cook 2-3 minutes until sugar is dissolved. Do not over-cook or the syrup will get very thick. Serve over the pancakes. Store unused portion in the fridge after use. I doubt there'll be much left over. 

There you go. Make some buckwheat pancakes. You love me right now right? I know...it's an evil relationship, but it's all good. To get the printable version, go here. 

Always My Very Best,

Your Friend Chef Tess