How to Make Pancakes from Scratch

Homemade pancakes taste fresher than pancakes made from a box mix.

Instead of making pancakes from a box, gather a few simple ingredients around the kitchen and cook this breakfast staple from scratch. Making homemade pancake batter allows you to customize breakfast for your dietary needs and desires - whether you want to make it without baking powder or milk, or you want to make chocolate or banana pancakes -- homemade pancake mix is an easy way to get creative.

Things You'll Need

• 2 eggs
• 1 1/4 cups of flour
• 1 tbsp. baking powder
• 2 tbsp. of sugar
• 1 1/2 cups of milk, depending on desired thickness
• Pinch of salt
• Butter or cooking oil
• Large mixing bowl
• Water

Instructions

1. Heat a small amount of cooking oil in a frying pan. If you would rather use butter instead, just heat the frying pan without the butter until you are ready to add pancake mix.

2. Mix flour, sugar, egg and milk together in a large mixing bowl. Mix well until all ingredients are blended. Then slowly add water until the batter is not too thick yet not too thin. The thicker the batter, the thicker the pancakes will be. Continue to mix until there are no lumps in the batter.

3. Add about 1 tsp. of butter into the hot frying pan if you are cooking with butter. Once the butter turns brown, slowly pour patter into the frying pan to form a pancake. If your pan is large enough, you can make more than one pancake at a time. If you are cooking with oil, slowly pour batter into the pan with warmed oil. Again, if your pan is big enough, you can make more than one pancake at a time. Let pancakes fry for two to four minutes.

4. Separate the pancakes with a spatula once they begin to bubble and dry at the top, and carefully flip them over. Allow the other side to cook for two to three minutes.

5. Once both sides of pancakes are brown, remove from the frying pan and butter. Eat with syrup and enjoy.

Tips & Warnings

• This recipe can be easily modified to make cinnamon pancakes, blueberry pancakes, chocolate chip pancakes, or pretty much any flavor you desire. Just combine the desired flavor into the large bowl along with the other ingredients in Step 2.

• Don't over mix the batter, just stir until it is all combined.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• Read this Article in Spanish
• Betty Crocker: Pancake Hints