Easy Homemade From Scratch Pancakes Recipe

Skip store bought and make your pancakes at home, from scratch! This breakfast recipe is SO easy, delicious and family approved! Try adding chocolate chips, bananas or blueberries! 

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Not sure about you, but breakfast is my absolute favorite meal! My daughter is a HUGE pancake fan and when she was recovering from the flu last weekend, she had one request. Could I make pancakes for her?

Since we were stuck in the house with no pancake mix, I had to find a recipe to make some pancakes from scratch for her!

This recipe came from a cookbook that's been on my bookshelf for awhile. There are SO many great recipes in it. It's called Always on Sunday by Eleanor Ostman. It's a local, Minnesota cookbook with recipes from all over the place! LOVE!

This recipe is just as easy to prepare as the boxed stuff and even better... you know what ingredients are in it! Better for you and cheaper too! It's a win-win all around! If you're a fan of waffles and want a homemade recipe, these Sweet Cream Waffles are fantastic!

What's in homemade pancakes?

• Milk: cow's milk is a great source of calcium, vitamin D, potassium and it's a complete protein source too! 

• All purpose flour: It's a combination of hard and soft wheats. Bleached flour provides a softer texture. It's versatile and you can bake most anything with it!

• Granulated sugar: Also known as white sugar, table sugar or regular sugar. It's grainy, common and used in many types of recipes.

• Baking powder: It's a dry leavening agent, with a shelf life about 9-12 months. Baking powder is used to increase the volume and lighten the texture of baked goods by causing bubbles in a wet mixture. Baking powder is usually made with a combination of baking soda, cream of tartar and cornstarch.

Other pancake recipes you may like:

• Oven Baked Apple Puffed Pancake 
• Lucky Charms Pancakes
• Buttermilk Cornmeal Pancakes
• Buttermilk Bacon Pancakes 
• Wild Rice Pancakes
• Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes
• Peanut Buttermilk Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Full recipe below

You can add or substitute the following ingredients:

• cinnamon
• blueberries
• chocolate chips
• bananas
• eggnog
• shredded zucchini
• caramel
• fresh peaches
• peanut butter
• crumbled bacon
• sprinkles
• blackberries
• icing
• pumpkin
• buttermilk

Things you may need for this recipe:

• Electric Griddle
• Emoji Pancake Pan
• Five Pack of Assorted Pancake Syrups

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we did!

Easy Homemade From Scratch Pancakes

Yield: 12 small pancakes

Author: Hot Eats and Cool Reads

Prep time: 5 MinCook time: 20 MinTotal time: 25 Min

Ingredients

• 1 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder

Instructions

1. In a bowl, whisk together the milk, oil and egg.
2. Combine the dry ingredients and add to the egg mixture. Whisk until the batter is smooth.
3. Grease a skillet or griddle and heat over medium.
4. Scoop the batter onto the skillet using 1/4 cup for each pancake.
5. Heat until pancake bubbles and flip, about 2-3 minutes for each side, until lightly golden brown. 

Notes:

If your pancake batter is thin, check your baking powder. Even if it isn't expired but has been open awhile, it can affect the thickness of the batter. You can increase the flour by 1-2 tablespoons to make your batter thicker, or try again with new baking powder.

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