Carrot Cake Pancakes with Maple Cream Cheese

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger
• 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 2 Tbsp pure maple syrup
• 1 cup milk (I used 1% – what I had on hand)
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 2 cups finely grated carrots (preferably using a microplane grater)
• canola oil cooking spray
• 4 ounces Neufchâtel (1/3-less-fat) cream cheese, at room temperature
• 2 Tbsp milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon