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Simple Fluffy Pancakes

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These are the easiest pancakes you will ever make!

Ingredients

  • ⅔ cups Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder, Heaping
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 pinch Sugar
  • 1 whole Egg
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • ½ cups Liquid

Preparation

Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Turn your oven to warm and put a piece of foil or a baking dish in there—this will be to keep your pancakes warm as you cook the rest.

In a large cereal bowl or small mixing bowl, use a fork to stir together your dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. The sugar isn’t necessary, so you can leave it out if you wish. Also, you can add a teaspoon of cinnamon here, to make awesome cinnamon pancakes.

Now add your wet ingredients: egg, vanilla, and 1/2 cup of liquid.

You can use anything you want for the liquid! Orange juice makes a very bright pancake, milk makes a richer pancake. A mix of 1/4 cup water and 1/4 cup buttermilk makes the fluffiest pancake you can imagine, and plain old water works wonderfully as well. I use just water most of the time. Experiment with other liquids! Try apple cider or coffee or even chocolate milk! (Then let me know how they turn out, because I haven’t tried them myself. They’re probably great, though!)

Stir your ingredients well with the fork, removing all lumps. If you used a thicker liquid (like a dairy), you may need to add a tablespoon or so of water to get your batter to the right consistency.

When the skillet is fully up to temperature, pour on about a quarter of the batter, making a pancake about the size of your hand. Yes, I make them one at a time. That’s why you have your oven warm! However, if you have a large enough skillet there’s no reason not to do them all at once. I could make 2 at once if I was better at pouring them without having them run into each other, but I’m not, so I make one at a time.

Here’s a tip: run the edge of the turner you will be using along a stick of butter. This will allow it to slide more easily under the pancake. I like to do this for each pancake flip.

When you see bubbles make it to the surface of your pancake, and the edges look firm instead of wet, flip it over, and finish cooking it. You’ll see it rise a little, and then watch the edges to see when they look fully cooked. The pancake is done about 30 seconds after the edges look fully cooked.

It usually takes me 1-2 minutes on the first side, and less than one minute on the second side. It is important that the skillet is nonstick, as we don’t add any fat to the pan for cooking. Fat could be added, but if you use butter the high heat will burn it, and oil will leave a flavor on the cake itself.

When it is done, transfer it to the oven to stay warm, and cook up the rest!

This will make 4 pancakes, which I think is right for 2 people. Especially if you use buttermilk! Really, they fluff up amazingly.

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granitegirl on 1.20.2010

I’ll try these this weekend- I’m always trying to make a good fluffy pancake

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hikchik on 1.2.2010

This recipe didn’t turn out for me. I made them exactly as the recipe states and used whole milk. Not sure if that was the issue – my liquid being whole milk, but the pancakes were not fluffy at all and did not have good flavor. Not sure what happened….

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flourgirl on 12.10.2009

These were great! I made them exactly as stated, even using buttermilk for half of the liquid. Tasted great & did not stick (some recipes still stick to my non-stick pan if they don’t have enough fat/oil in them). I doubled the recipe and it yielded eleven (11) 3 to 4″ pancakes.

This recipe is a keeper, thanks for sharing Jacki!

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hannahbg on 3.18.2012

Are the measurements correct on the ingredients? One egg in relation to the amount of the other ingredients makes the batter quite thick … and the pancakes very cake-y. This also only made two pancakes…

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