The Best Pancakes Ever

Are you looking for the best pancake recipe ever? Then you need to try this pancake recipe!

I have to laugh when I read restaurant reviews that say, “…but you can’t really mess up pancakes!”  Obviously they haven’t tried my pancakes!

I’ve been cooking for more years than I’d like to count, and I usually do okay with it.  But for all these years, a good recipe for pancakes has eluded me.  I’ve tried different recipes and every one of them has turned out wrong.  They’re raw in the middle, burned on the outside, too dense, just flat, or whatever.  The sourdough pancakes were the worst!  (“Mom, are you sure these are supposed to be pancakes?”)

That all changed on Valentine’s Day.  My 13-year-old son, Mooseman, encouraged me to relax, because he was making breakfast.

He served me a stack of the best pancakes I’ve ever had.  Seriously.

He’d Googled “pancake recipe” and–by sheer luck?–chose one called Good Old Fashioned Pancakes. After breakfast, I compared that recipe with the one that I usually use.  The biggest difference is the sifting of the dry ingredients.  In any case, this is our new pancake recipe with a few alterations. We took out the salt and used salted butter. We also added vanilla.

Best Pancake Recipe Ever

This homemade pancake recipe made 12 perfect pancakes. You can double the recipe if you wish to make extra to store in the freezer for busy mornings.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 1 1/4 cups milk
• 1 egg, beaten
• 3 tablespoons salted butter, melted
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and sugar.

2. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the milk, egg, melted butter, and vanilla. Stir the liquids into the flour mixture and continue mixing until smooth.

3. Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop 1/4 of a batter onto the griddle for each pancake.

4. Brown the bottom of the pancake. You will know it is ready to flip when little bubbles appear on top of the pancake and the bottom has a turned brown. Flip and cook until the other side is browned.

5. Repeat with the remaining batter until all of the pancakes are made.

Note: As you make the pancakes, place the cooked pancakes on a plate and cover with foil while you are make the other pancakes to keep them warm until ready to serve.

Valentine’s Day Variations:

You can make 6 pancakes using this batter. then add a few drops of red food dye to the batter to make it pink. Then make 6 pink pancakes. If you have heart cookie cutters you can cut out hearts of the plain pancakes and put the hearts of top of pink pancakes.

Note: It is easier to make a pancake then cut out a heart than it is to put a cookie cutter in a skillet and fill it with batter. Trust me on this one!

You can also take the pancake with the cutout and put it on top of a pink pancake for a cute Valentine’s Day breakfast, so no portion of the pancakes go to waste!

More Pancake Variations:

You can add food dye and use cookie cutters for any number of holidays, such as green food dye and shamrock cookie cutter for St. Patrick’s Day.

Add a teaspoon of cinnamon to make Cinnamon Pancakes. For a decadent treat you can top them with vanilla glaze instead of syrup.

For Chocolate Chip Pancakes, add 1/2 cup chocolate chips to the batter. You can top the pancakes with chocolate syrup and whipped cream if you wish.

To make Blueberry Pancakes add 1/2 cup blueberries to the batter. I prefer to use wild blueberries.

During the holidays, replace the milk with eggnog to make Eggnog Pancakes.

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Best Pancake Recipe Ever

This homemade pancake recipe made 12 perfect pancakes.

Author Alea Milham

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• ▢ 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• ▢ 1 tablespoon white sugar
• ▢ 1 1/4 cups milk
• ▢ 1 egg beaten
• ▢ 3 tablespoons salted butter melted
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and sugar.
• Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the milk, egg, melted butter, and vanilla. Stir the liquids into the flour mixture and continue mixing until smooth.
• Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop 1/4 of a batter onto the griddle for each pancake.
• Brown the bottom of the pancake. You will know it is ready to flip when little bubbles appear on top of the pancake and the bottom has a turned brown. Flip and cook until the other side is browned.
• Repeat with the remaining batter until all of the pancakes are made.

Notes

As you make the pancakes, place the cooked pancakes on a plate and cover with foil while you are make the other pancakes to keep them warm until ready to serve.

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The pancake recipe is from Melissa at Frugal Creativity. She is a Christian wife and mom who likes cooking, baking, reading, gardening, and sharing the ways that God is working in her life.