These Halloween Pancake not only look slightly spooky they are seasonal, fun and taste delicious. Make with Pumpkin Puree and some spice, these crepes are a great Halloween recipe. They are a great way of getting the kids involved and making breakfast more fun.
The Pumpkin Pancake Recipe is easy to make. If you do not want to make these crepes spooky and just want some tasty pumpkin and spice crepes then skip the cocoa part in the recipe. Use the whole batch of pumpkin pancake batter to make delicious autumn breakfast crepes.
How to make Halloween Pancakes
This Halloween Pancake recipe is easy to make. It uses Pumpkin purée to create a slightly spiced cinnamon crepe batter. Some of the batter is mixed with cocoa to create a chocolate crepe batter.
To make the spider web crepes, draw a web with the chocolate batter on the pan. Let this cook then add the orange pumpkin crepe batter on top. Cook, flip and enjoy.
This Crepe recipe makes tasty slightly butter pumpkin spice crepes. The addition of the spices elevate the pumpkin puree. It is a great Pumpkin purée recipe to use up any left over edible pumpkin you have. In the UK you can buy the pumpkin puree recipe from Amazon (affiliate link) Sainsbury and Tesco. It should be about £2.
You can enjoy these with whipped cream or chocolate. I love them on their own due to the cinnamon taste.
Why does crepe batter need to rest
Resting the batter helps the taste and texture of the crepes. It allows the gluten in the flour to relax. It also stops the pancakes from going greyish once cooked.
Chilling the batter allows the flour to absorb moisture improving the texture
The flavour of the crepes are better with batter that has been allowed to rest. This time allows the flavours to blend.
What is the secret to great crepes
- Resting/ Chilling the batter for at least an hour
- Use a good pancake pan
- Use a pastry brush or paper towel to lightly brush the butter onto your pan. Excessive butter will make the pancakes greasy and brown
- Ensure milk and eggs are room temperature to allow butter to mix well
- If the mixture is grainy always sieve or blitz it until smooth
- The crepe batter should be the consistency of heavy cream
- Even medium heat is key to cooking a good crepe. The heat should most be too hot or else the batter will not spread
- Flip the pancake about 1-2 minutes after it has cooked. This is when the top of the crepe starts to look dry. These pumpkin crepes are heavier than usual ones, therefore can’t be flipped as easily. Use a silicone spatula to lift the edge then gently turn over
- These crepes can be stored for 2 days in the fridge. Once they are cool, you can leave them in their stack on a plate and cover with cling film before refrigerating them.
- You can reheat the crepes in the microwave but they are best heated on a medium heat pan for 30 seconds
Halloween Pancakes
Ingredients
- 440 ml room temperature milk
- 3 eggs room temperature
- 40 grams melted butter
- 65 g pumpkin purée
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- 230 grams flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 60 grams caster sugar
- 10 grams cocoa
- Butter for cooking the pancake
Instructions
- Get all your ingredients ready.
- Into your milk add in the eggs, melted butter and whisk. Add in the pumpkin purée and whisk again. If the mixture feels quite grainy, blitz it for a smoother texture.
- Mix the flour, cinnamon and sugar together
- Gradually add the liquid pumpkin milk to the flour mixture. Keep whisking until the batter is combined.
- Chill the batter for at least one hour if possible. You can do this the night before. See notes
- Take 300 ml of the batter and add the cocoa powder to make the chocolate batter.
- Pour this mixture into a condiment squeeze bottle. This is to allow you to pipe/draw a spider web onto the pan.
- Heat a pan on medium high heat. Lightly grease a non-stick pan with some butter. Wipe off any excess butter with some kitchen paper. Draw a spider web with the chocolate batter. Start with a cross in the middle, then add on 2 more diagonal lines in between. Next pipe the mixture from one line to the other with a curve movement.
- Wait until it's completely cooked and add a ladle of pumpkin batter. It will not look great at this stage.
- Cook for 1-2 minutes – until you can peel the crepe off easily and it is not sticky. The turn the crepe over. This is the side that is effective and the side the crepe needs to be served'
- Stack the crepes on a plate with the turned side up. When I first started making these crepes I was not sure if they were effective however once you flip them you will notice the wow factor.
- Filling with the topping of your choice and decorate. I filled it with vanilla whipped cream and served it with two spooky edible eye balls.
Hope you get to make this Halloween Pancake recipe.
Want more spooky ideas? How about these edible date spiders
