Sweet Potato Pancakes

Once you’ve experienced a stack of these delicately spiced, perfectly sweet, warm-you-from-the-inside-out sweet potato pancakes you will be hooked. Here’s what makes these pancakes extra delicious:

Mashed Sweet Potatoes: These add moisture, flavor, color and texture.

Warm Spices: These pancakes are perfectly spiced. I use pumpkin pie spice, but feel free to swap it for apple pie spice or plain cinnamon.

Buttermilk: This creates a light, fluffy and tender pancake. Forget to buy buttermilk? Try my buttermilk substitute.

Vanilla extract: One of my favorite pancake ingredients. A subtle vanilla flavor pairs perfectly with the sweet potatoes.

In our house, pancakes are usually reserved for weekend breakfasts, but, these were so dang good that I made them for dinner several days after making them for Sunday breakfast. Note: If you’re needing a little push to get you through that midweek slump, breakfast for dinner will do the trick.

Sweet Potato Pancake Toppings

Now let’s talk toppings, shall we? My favorite way to eat these pancakes is with a generous smear of salted butter – that’s it! My kids love them doused in pure maple syrup, and my husband prefers these pancakes topped with warm cinnamon glazed apples – cozy fall flavors in every bite.

Here’s how I’ve convinced myself that these pancakes aren’t terribly bad for us:

Sweet potatoes are a nutritional powerhouse

These pancakes contain no refined sugar

You can swap some of the white flour for wheat flour for an extra boost of fiber

Be sure to try my Baked Sweet Potatoes. And if you’d prefer your sweet potatoes a little less wholesome (read: covered in marshmallows and/or brown sugar streusel), I want to remind you that it’s the time of year for my Sweet Potato Casserole and Sweet Potato Souffle! This is my all-time most popular recipe, with tons of positive reviews. Give it a try this holiday season.