Showing posts with label food prep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food prep. Show all posts

Pancakes....

Yes, finally a pancake recipe that actually lives up to the hype!!!  It was like some sort of sweet serendipity that I had been watching Cake Boss this past Friday evening and he was making some yummy looking pancakes!  I'm not so much of a pancake lover but my family loves them and they're easy to make in a big batch and refrigerate for the rest of the week.  

So after a bunch of literally deflated supposedly "the best" recipes, finally the Cake Boss delivered.
Fluffy Pancakes for Sure!!!
Makes around 7-8 nice sized pancakes/about 2 dozen mini pancakes (we like doing these)
  
2 1/2 cups of flour (all purpose flour)
2 BIG pinches of granulated sugar (I did about 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons...this is really up to your sweet tooth)
4 teaspoons baking powder (the magical ingredient I believe)
Scant 1 teaspoon fine sea salt (go ahead and live life!  Put an actual teaspoon!) 
2 large eggs
4 tablespoons of butter melted and slightly cooled (yes cooled, you will be making some custard if you put it in hot or warm, I suggest melting in microwave and popping in freezer for a minute or until cool)
2 cups of milk (I will be trying a batch with rice milk and let your know)

The original recipe that I searched on the web didn't have the directions but my pancakes turned out pretty perfect so I will stick to what I did. 

Whisk the eggs in a good sized bowl and add milk, melted butter, sugar, salt, baking powder and flour, yep all in the same bowl!!  Stir until all the flour bits are gone but I still leave the batter just a little lumpy.

Take a laddle or spoon since this batter is slightly thick and drop your pancakes into a nonstick pan and do as you do in cooking pancakes!  Hope this recipe works out for you!!!! 

Thainie Tip: Easy Cheap iPad Wrap

Wanted to share this tip for those that might use their iPad in the kitchen.  I was following a recipe from Pinterest (again) but flour and other seasonings were attacking my iPad and so I thought about plastic wrap.  Oh holy kitchen gods!!!!  It actually works with the plastic wrap on!!!  Also helps if you have greasy hands but need to scroll the recipe.  Might consider wrapping it permanently for my kids!