Adjusting World's Greatest Pancakes to be Pumpkin Pancakes

I found this recipe for pancakes a few years ago and they are amazing. I wanted to try some pumpkin pancakes so I asked ChatGPT to adjust the recipe for me. Here is what it came up with:

🎃 Pumpkin Pancake Version

Dry ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 2 tbsp sugar (bump to 3–4 tbsp if you like sweeter pancakes)
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp fine salt
• 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp ground ginger
• ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
• (optional) pinch of cloves or allspice

Wet ingredients:

• 1 cup pumpkin purée (not pumpkin pie filling)
• 1½ cups buttermilk (reduce from 2 cups because pumpkin adds moisture)
• 4 tbsp melted butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 beaten eggs

Then I asked it to summarize the differences from the original recipe:

🟠 1. Add Pumpkin Purée

• ➕ Add: 1 cup pumpkin purée to the wet ingredients.

🟠 2. Reduce Buttermilk

• ➖ Change: from 2 cups buttermilk → 1½ cups buttermilk
  (Pumpkin adds a lot of moisture, so this keeps the batter from getting too wet.)

🟠 3. Add Fall Spices (optional but highly recommended)

• ➕ Add to dry ingredients:
  • 1½ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ground ginger
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg
  • (Optional: pinch of cloves or allspice)

🟠 4. Optional – Adjust Sugar

• ➕ If you want slightly sweeter pancakes (pumpkin itself is not sweet), increase sugar from 2 tbsp → 3 or 4 tbsp.

Cal and I discussed that we were actually giving the AI the opportunity to cause physical harm to us. But none of the changes looked poisonous.

We didn't have ginger or nutmeg so we added some pumpkin pie spice instead. Also Cal said we should add candy corn (Brach's obviously) like we add chocolate chips or blueberries. The added candy corn was really good. They mainly dissolved during the cooking process so just added sweetness to the pancakes. If you want a stronger "pumpkin" or "fall" feel you probably want more spices. But they were very good and very filling.