Directions: |
Directions:Directions
Beat egg with sugar in large bowl until fluffy. If you have a stand mixer let it keep beating while you get the other ingredients ready, it will get thicker and will look like soft buttery whipped cream. Stir dry ingredients together in a medium bowl with a wire whisk. Add all remaining ingredients to egg at once and beat until just until smooth. Grease heated griddle if necessary (should not be necessary with nonstick electric griddle). Preheat electric griddle at 425 degrees. (To test griddle, sprinkle with a few drops water. If bubbles skitter around, griddle temperature is correct.) Pour about ¼ cup batter onto hot griddle for each pancake. Cook until pancakes are puffed and dry around edges. (Bubbles will form in the pancakes, when they start to pop it is ready to turn). Turn and cook until golden brown.
Variations
(All are for 1 recipe unless noted, if doubling or tripling need to adjust)
• Lemon/Blueberry/Oat: Use 2/3 white flour, 1/3 oat flour. Grate peel of one lemon, juice the lemon and mix the juice with the milk and microwave for about a minute until it thickens. Mix in 1 cup of blueberries, frozen or fresh
• Blueberry: Add approx 1 cup of frozen or fresh blueberries
• Chocolate Chip: Add approx 1 cup chocolate chips
• Cranberry/Orange: Chop 1 cup cranberries (food processor works well) with 2 Tbsp sugar. Add grated orange peel. (Opt: mix some of the orange juice with the milk and heat till thickened)
• Cranberry/Raspberry: Cranberry as above, mix in frozen raspberries right at the end
• Banana: Mash one banana and mix in
• Banana/Choc Chip: Mashed banana, brown sugar and choc chips
• Banana/Nut: mashed banana and chopped nuts
• Banana Spice: Use brown sugar, 1 Tbs cinnamon. Slice a ripe banana, place slices on top of each pancake right after you pour on the griddle, sprinkle with add’l brown sugar (or cinnamon mixed with white sugar) on top
• Apple: mix 1 chopped apple, 1 tsp cinnamon and 1 Tbsp sugar, add to mix.
• Apple Spice: for triple recipe: 2 Tbs cinnamon, ¼ tsp allspice, ¼ tsp nutmeg, ¾ cup brown sugar, 2 grated apples, 1 cup applesauce, 1 ½ cup oatmeal, mix of wheat/white flour
• Blueberry/Raspberry/Oat: 1/3 oat flour, 1/3 white, 1/3 wheat flour. 2/3 cup frozen blueberries, 1/3 cup frozen raspberries
• Peanut Butter/ Choc Chip: 2 Tbsp peanut butter, 1 cup choc chips, 1/3 cup sugar
• Chocolate/Choc Chip: 2 Tbsp cocoa, extra egg per double recipe, ¼ cup sugar, Chocolate chips
• Sour Cream: sub sour cream for half the milk, add 2 Tbs extra milk.
• Pear/Ginger: Peel, core and chop 1 pear, add 1 tsp ground Ginger. (or grated fresh ginger)
• Blueberry/Cherry: 1/2 c blueberries, 1/2 c seeded and quartered fresh cherries
• Almond Poppyseed: add 1/2 tsp almond flavor, 1 tsp poppy seeds. Sprinkle sliced almonds over top of each pancake just after pouring on the pan. Optional: substitute almond flour for part of the flour.
• Raspberry Almond: as above but stir in 1/2 to 1 cup frozen or fresh raspberries
Makes: about nine 4-inch pancakes, 110 calories each
Basic Notes
• I always triple the recipe, and pack any extras in Ziploc bags. They freeze well; just remove from bag and reheat in the microwave 1 min right before eating.
• They are best made with buttermilk (fluffier), but I almost never have that on hand. You can use regular milk and it is fine. You can also mix the milk with 1 tablespoon of vinegar and heat in the microwave until lukewarm, it will thicken a bit and is a good substitute for buttermilk. The acidity of the vinegar/ buttermilk interacts with the baking soda to make them rise more.
• I like them best with a mix of flour. Approx 1/3 whole wheat, 1/3 white flour, and 1/3 oat flour works well. You make oat flour by putting regular oatmeal in a blender or food processor, I make it ahead and keep it in a jar.
• I use a large nonstick Rival electric griddle. You can use a griddle you lay over your stove burners, or a large frypan instead.
• Try BJs for inexpensive real maple syrup |
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