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Pancakes

Welcome back! 
Today, we have a recipe for one of the most classic American breakfast dishes: Pancakes! Pancakes come in all shapes and sizes across different cultures, but the American pancake is iconic for its thin-but-slightly-fluffy texture that's conducive to all sorts of variations, including pancake art, and being topped with a small slab of butter and/or maple syrup. Plus, they're a quick and fun dish to make (something that the kids will love!) and you can experiment with all sorts of different fillings.

Pancakes

Makes about 8 medium-sized pancakes

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoons melted butter (optional)

Directions:

  1. Sift the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl.
  2. Add in the salt and sugar and mix.
  3. Beat an egg and pour it into the dry mixture.
  4. Pour in the milk, vanilla extract, and butter (if you want to use it).
  5. Mix until the ingredients are incorporated but don't overmix!
  6. Heat and oil up a pan. Spoon some batter onto the pan.
  7. Let the pancake cook until bubbles start to form and the edge is well done enough to flip.
  8. Flip the pancake and cook until both sides reach a nice, golden color.

As you can see above, pancakes go great with various toppings as well - we always love to add some fresh fruit to them, and we also had some preserves that we used. Another one of our favorite variations is just to add a little bit of peanut butter to the batter before cooking. While peanut butter typically has a pretty dominant flavor, we found that maybe because we didn't add too much, it just gave the pancakes a little bit of a nutty taste, which was quite a delicious addition. Other classic ingredients you can put in are chocolate chips or fresh blueberries. There's so much that you can do with pancakes!

-Chefpo
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