Apple Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes
I was pretty excited when I wrapped our manuscript last week because it meant more time for doing the things that I love.
They are, in no particular order:
having smooth, clean shaven legs (that’s yet to happen)
giving my full attention to my favorite reality shows (that’s completely unnecessary. Hot tub. Champagne. Making out. Rose ceremony. Limo meltdown. Got it.)
engaging in conversations with Pea Daddy that don’t involve, “Don’t eat that! Let me take pictures of it first!!”
and
getting back into the kitchen.
Ironic, huh?
Don’t get me wrong, I love to write and write recipes. But I also love to cook and cook without any other purpose than to just to enjoy delicious food. And there’s a lot of delicious food out there that I’d like to help share.
Like the great recipes by Maria and Josh at Two Peas & Their Pod.
I’m a fan. And not just because we have Peas in common, though clearly they are brilliant.
Need proof?
How do you like them apples?
More specifically, how do you like them Apple Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes?
I asked Maria if I could share my version of their recipe and she said yes.
Like I said, brilliant.
Apple Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes
adapted from this recipe from Two Peas & Their Pod
Makes 8-10 pancakes
Cinnamon Streusel:
- 1/4 c. whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/4 c. old fashioned oats
- 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 t. ground cinnamon
- 2 T. vegan margarine (i.e. Earth Balance) or organic butter
- 1/4 c. unsweetened applesauce
Pancakes:
- 2 c. non-dairy or organic milk
- 2 t. lemon juice
- 1 c. whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 c. unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 T. organic sugar
- 2 t. baking powder
- 1 t. baking soda
- 1/2 t. salt
- 1/2 c. unsweetened applesauce
- 2 T. olive oil
- 1 t. vanilla extract
- 1 Granny Smith apple, cored, peeled and chopped
For the cinnamon streusel, in a medium bowl, combine flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, margarine or butter and applesauce. Mix together with your hands or a fork, until you have a crumbly mixture. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, combine milk and lemon juice and allow to “curdle” for several minutes.
In a large bowl, whisk together flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
To the bowl of “curdled” milk, add applesauce, oil and vanilla and whisk together. Add wet ingredients to the flour mixture and stir just until combined. Do not over mix, batter will be slightly lumpy. Fold in chopped apple.
Heat a griddle or pan to medium low. Coat with cooking spray or a light misting of oil.
Drop 1/4-1/3 cup of batter onto heated griddle or pan.
Cook on the first side until bubbles begin to form, about 2-3 minutes.
Eat any mini baby pancakes that just so happen to pop up.
You know you will.
Continue this process to make the rest of the pancakes.
Top pancakes with a heaping spoonful of cinnamon streusel and syrup, if desired.
Fluffy, decadent and delicious.
I knew this was a good idea.
And one I plan to repeat.
So every so often, expect to see other people recipes up in here.
Because I want to taste what I’ve been missing.
And so does Pea Daddy.
But let me take pictures of it first.
Happy National Pancake Day Peas!!
You too!
Love it! Congrats on getting your manuscript in. Like many other bloggers, I get the feeling of getting back into the kitchen just to cook and enjoy.
Can’t wait to cook and enjoy these pancakes.
yummm! and perfect for national pancake day
i’m still working on finding time to shave my legs…. and i didn’t have a manuscript due. whoops!
I want to make a pancake OUT of the cinnamon streusel crumbly goodness. Is that possible? Oh heavens, I can never get enough of that stuff. Although those pillowy pancakes look pretty close to perfection, too.
I kind of just think you could put that streusel on a piece of toast and call it a day. Or the end of a spoon. Your call.
I have been cooking a lot with apples lately…so these look so good! I just made pancakes the other day and they were delicious…can’t wait to try this version out!!
These look delicious! They made me think of your apple cinnamon pancakes! Happy Pancake Day!
ooh so looking forward to trying this! Thanks!
Let me wipe off my laptop because I am drooling!
Yum. I flipping love flapjacks. Maria is from SLC! Come visit us.
Is she? How did I not know?! Sorry about my crap comment yesterday. I was feeling ornery.
Absolutely no reason to be sorry!
You had me at “streusel!” I have a few bags of pre-cut Costco apples (you probably know the giant packs they sell…) that would be perfect for this!
I do know those packs! So convenient.
UGH, YUM!!!! I made your smoked sea salt maple donuts this weekend as cupcakes and they are UNREAL. I think I’ve eaten at least 6 so far. What would we all do without you!
I hope we never find out.
I’m reading your blog in bed while watching TV and my husband just looked over my shoulder and said “Mmm those look good!”
What’s for breakfast?
I love that you’re going to be showing other recipes…although I always hope you share your spin on ‘em
I had initially just intended to make, photograph and then link to other recipes, but I made a handful of changes and then didn’t know what to do, so I emailed Maria to see what was right. It’s so hard to know! But yes, I’ll keep sharing because there are so many recipes out there I want to try!
The pancakes look wonderful and I could actually skip the pancakes and just cut straight to the streusel topping and eat that, as is
Maria has great recipes and I remember seeing those on her site!
Oh boy, these look great!!! And I know what you mean about loving to cook without the blogging end. I love my blog and even (sometimes) love taking pictures of my food. Sometimes, though, it’s nice to make something without worrying about how nice it will look on the plate.
I just read a lot of blogs who have so many great recipes, I’d love to show them on here now and then.
I am a HUGE fan of pancakes, but the toppings really make them for me! These look amazing!
Those look positively divine!
This has absolutely nothing to do with this post but a thought just entered my mind and I googled it and now I’m all swooning so I need to share.
Just found out Colin Firth has been married for 14 years and when I looked it up I found that their love story is like identical to his character in Love Actually….he met her, she was Italian and he started learning Italian so they could date……the rest is history. OMG I’m dying.
Haha. That is so random and interesting about Colin Firth.
What?! NO WAY! Thank you for knowing how much I would appreciate this.
I KNEW we were kindred spirits. I just knew it. I’m basking in this knowledge as I watch the last installment of P&P miniseries. It’s incredible.
oooooooooooooooo!!!! how gorgeous
I love trying other people’s recipes! In fact, I’m so busy doing just that that I pretty much never create my own recipes. I guess I am more of a follower than a leader in that regard.
I think following other people’s ideas (like yours) is a good way to learn a lot of techniques and how to pair flavors and foods. It’s a fun (and delicious) journey.
Congratulations on getting your manuscript in! I am very excited to see the finished project and amazed at how you do it all!
I totally hear you on the “Let me take pictures first part”… I just started my food blog a month and a half ago and it’s been like this every time I make something I’m quite proud of. My poor boyfriend has to always be patient and has never complained yet, so far. I hope he doesn’t get tired of me doing this. There are times though when I wish I could just carry on and eat without worrying about pictures and such. I sometimes miss the days when I just throw everything I feel like throwing in a pan without jotting everything down and measuring everything to the tee. Congrats on the manuscript and thank you for this delicious apple pancake recipe.
ohh goodness, these look decadent and drool worthy! definitely will be a saturday morning breakfast in the near future.
Congratulations on getting your manuscript done! Now enjoy those trashy shows and smooth legs….
Are you a Revenge fan? (the show, not the concept). I’m addicted and it’s so very yummy. That show and Good Wife are the only two I follow. That is if you don’t count Sesame Street, Team UmiZoomi, Olivia and Wild Kratts.
These look super delicious– can’t wait to whip up a batch come Sunday. Unfortunately even I can’t find time to make pancakes on national pancake day. Sad, I know.
Mama, these look AMAZING. You are amazing.
Anything apple cinnamon flavored is pretty much awesome. Yay for wrapping up the manuscript! I’m already waiting on the edge of my seat for the next book
Oh yum, yum, yum. Those look delicious and that streusel topping can be used on so many other things. Mmmm…. Oh, and I’m over a week behind on our favorite show. Ha ha.
These look delicious. I am sure you can’t believe it but my boys love chocolate chip pancakes (haha). I am pretty sure they would love these though so will be trying this weekend. We have a 13th birthday coming up and our tradition is special birthday pancakes with a sparkler in them. I will try these out and see if he would like this type. He may want a new tradition of a Mama Pea poptart with a sparkler in it…hmm do you think I could make those in chocolate or smore flavour?
For the s’more flavor, I’d sub out the oats in the streusel and sub in graham cracker crumbs. I’d also cut the cinnamon in at least half and maybe toss in some marshmellows or marshmellow cream? Then you could add choc chips instead of apples to the batter. Good luck!
just in time for national pancake day! Those look amazing and fluffy! I haven’t done much vegan baking, or any, really…. but this recipe looks like something I could make vegan with ingredients on hand. Maria’s recipes are amazing! Great photos, too. (Glad P. Diddy let you take a pic first!)
Thanks, Liz!
oooh what a fabulous way to enjoy pancakes! yum!
Oh these look so good! I’m guessing the streusel is the best part.
Well, of course
The streusel on these. . . . Oh my oh my! These look like Sunday morning to me.
Ahhhh, this is so good. It sounds like you are finally getting a bit of a break. Congratulations on finishing the manuscript…you must feel like such a weight is off of your shoulders.!
The pancakes look phenominal! My thighs are actually expanding just looking at the pictures.
I am eating one of your Poptarts this morning and have your Magic Kale salad in the fridge for lunch. Forecast today: Delicious!
I’m forcing myself to take a bit of a break and guess what? The world isn’t ending
I like the sound of your day’s forecast!
Sarah – you are more than welcome to steal any of my recipes. No else would dare.
Is that a challenge?
Congrats on finishing the manuscript Mama Pea. I can’t wait to see the final product! And those pancakes… I think I’d need to double the streusel recipe because by the time all the pancakes are ready I’m pretty sure I’d eat my way through most of it!
Have a great day!
What a delicious set of pancakes and so excited to hear that the manuscript is complete (you can’t see it but I am doing a little happy dance).
So happy that you have finished project “book no. 2″. What a relief it must be!
And thank you for this recipe, I woke up and had pancakes on my mind
Congrats on finishing the book! I can’t wait to get it!
And this is great timing, as I’ve been making apple cinnamon pancakes for the last few Saturdays. I whip up the batter Friday night (except for the apples) then put it in the fridge so it’s ready when I get home from my long run. This recipe adds an extra layer of goodness with the streusel, so I will make it for this Saturday!
And, thanks to you, I got sucked into The Bachelor Monday night for the first time. I don’t understand the attraction to the guy. His hair is greasy and parted in the middle. He looks like he got his last haircut in jr. high. And then he slept with all three of them on national tv. Yet I couldn’t stop watching…..
And the bow tie? He was not pulling it off. Well, he was…in the fantasy suite. I’ll be glad when this train wreck is over!
I need to make up an excuse to leave work so I can go home and make those right now!
So happy you liked the pancakes! Thanks for featuring our recipe! Yay for peas:)
Well thank you Maria for letting Mama Pea do her version! WOW! These seriously look like they were amazing! I love apples! I really need to buy the flours that you use for so many of your recipes!
I knew I would love this post! <3
I LOVE how fluffy they came out!! I am definitely making these next weekend!
I like your thinking in how piled high these are
I’m always a sucker for anything apple. Somehow, my pancakes always come out moist in the middle, even when they are golden brown on the outside. Perhaps I’m not using good recipes. I will definitely give this one a whirl!
Bookmarked! These look incredible! I need a tall plate of them right now. Screw lunch…I need breakfast again!
I think I will make that streusel topping and eat it on it’s own…yum!
Ooh I JUST finished eating banana pancakes for breakfast and now I want to go back in the kitchen and make a whole other batch but this time with apples…soooo good! I bet that streusel topping would be good on anything, like apple crumble or yogurt or just on its own!
Do you think these pancakes could be frozen?
Of course! I would wait and make the streusel topping when serving, though.
Funny- you post these and I just made apple-cinnamon muffins! Clearly, apples and cinnamon is the best baking/cooking combo that doesn’t have chocolate in it!
Clearly.
I made my first receipe from your book this weekend! Beg worth banana bread. It was a HUGE hit. I subbed peanut butter and vanilla extract for the almond butter/extract because I started making it before I made sure I had all the ingredients and it was still great. My 21 year old refered to it as “banging” lol.
Wow, that is glowing praise.
Thanks for the great feedback, Cathy!
Streusel and pancakes. You had me at struesel!!
Hubby was walking by as I was reading this and said “oh make those!” I love Two Peas and Their Pod! It is one of my favorite blogs. After yours of course
Thanks! Pea Daddy read the post this morning and said, “Can we have those for dinner?” We did
How is it that I have never thought about putting apple in my pancakes? These look so good!
Yum, yum, yum! I have never had apples in my pancakes
These look SO delicious!! I’ve been craving pancakes for quite some time but just been too lazy to actually make them. I think these will be made when I’m on my stay-cation next week!
These ARE fabulous! We had them for dinner last night and my family LOVED it! Pinned it to my recipe board, because I’m definitely making these again!
Thanks, Steph, we had them too!
In the instructions for the pancakes you say “whisk together butter, olive oil….” but I don’t see butter in the list of ingredients for the pancakes themselves… Is butter a missing ingredient, or is that a typo?
Thanks for clarifying!
Oops! I subbed oil in my recipe but left Maria’s instructions. Thanks for pointing that out!
Just had these for a late breakfast and my daughter and I were both surprised these came out of my kitchen! Sooo good! Thank you!
And I was going to ask what to do with leftover struesel, but no need to now!
Very nice! So happy you guys enjoyed!
streusel on pancakes?! fabulous idea!
They look so decadent and beautiful! I love how thick and soft they look. I need to make these
I like the idea of streausel on pancakes!
How do I like them apples? Well, now I like them in pancakes
Great recipe! Hopefully trying this sometime.
Yesterday I had Mama Pea withdrawal symptoms. Today, I’m just worried.
Two weekdays in a row without a new post..?
I hope all is well at your end.
These pancakes are my breakfast for tomorrow
All is well. Just enjoying time with my family and friends. I’m actually loving the every other day schedule so I hope you guys can get used to it!
Great! You deserve all the happy time you get! Enjoy
Thanks! I think we’ll all be better for it. You guys need to miss me a little bit
Just made these this morning for my guy and he was in heaven (and I was too!)… and last night I made the Jambalaya from the book which was fabulous after two hours of shoveling snow. I always amaze him with how good vegan food can be– THANK YOU!!
FANTASTIC! Thanks for the great feedback, Meredith.
good gracious those look AMAZING. reminding me of the apple cinnamon coffeecake in your book that i went absolutely mad for. i need that. NOW. your blog is torture for a prego! i love it. xo
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Pancakes.
This comment should really be more substantial, but that’s all I can think of.
So mmmmmmmm, pancakes. <3
had pancakes for dinner of the pumpkin oatmeal variety. nothing says sweet like a full stack, in my book. I can’t wait to try this recipe!
Hey Mama Pea!
All the stores around me have seemed to stop carrying ww pastry flour! Can I use all regular instead?
If you decide to use regular whole wheat, mix it in a 50/50 ratio with unbleached all purpose if you want to mimic the texture of whole wheat pastry. White whole wheat flour is another option. Good luck!