Pumpkin Pancakes

Yields: 12

Cooking Time: 10 min

Ingredients
2 2/3 cups flour
Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves to taste OR 2 TEASPOONS PUMPKIN PIE SPICE
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
8 eggs, separated
2 1/2 cups buttermilk
1 1/2 cups pumpkin, one 15-ounce can
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 stick of melted butter, slightly cooled

Instructions
Whisk together flour, spices, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
With a hand mixer, whip egg whites until stiff but not dry.
Mix together buttermilk, pumpkin, sugar, vanilla and butter.
Make a well in the dry ingredients and fold in buttermilk-pumpkin mixture; do not over mix. Gently fold egg whites into batter.
Cook on a hot grill until bubbles form at the edges. Flip and cook 2 – 3 minutes more.