Buttermilk Pancake

If you google “pancake recipe” you will end up with endless results. Pages and pages and pages, promising the fluffiest pancakes. It seems like people keep trying to make pancakes bigger and fluffier. Have you seen the giant Japanese pancakes?? The enormity of pancakes is actually why I stopped eating them. Waking up and eating such a heavy breakfast just made it feel like I ate a brick of sugar, not great. I started testing recipes to try and make something that was light and tender. So here it is, just another pancake recipe to post online to add to the millions. Below the recipe I’ll post a few tips about pancakes!

This recipe will make about 20 5inch pancakes!

Ingredients

• 2 Cups Flour
• 1/4 Cup Sugar
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 2 Cups Milk
• 2 TBL Lemon Juice
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 6 TBL Butter (melted)

Instructions

• First make your buttermilk by mixing the milk and lemon juice.
• Mix all the dry ingredients.
• Whisk Buttermilk, Eggs, and Vanilla into the dry ingredients.
• Last whisk in the melted Butter.
• Heat pans, I use non stick pans and turn my heat a little above medium.
• Cook pancakes!

Let’s chat pancakes… Why does the first pancake always gets stuck to the pan or is super light and it ends up being a throw away?? You didn’t heat your pan up enough! Give your pan PLENTY of time to heat up, when a pan isn’t hot enough things end up sticking! Do you need to spray your pans or butter them before cooking?? If you are using nonstick pans, then no! The fat in the recipe is enough to make sure your pancakes don’t stick. Given that you heated your pan and your pan is actually nonstick, you don’t need any extra grease! Can I make this without buttermilk? I don’t suggest it. Buttermilk is acidic and when it’s mixed with the baking powder and soda is gives you the bubbles to keep your pancakes light. There is baking powder in the recipe which will activate without an acid, but I think the buttermilk/baking soda gives a tangy taste that balances out the sugar.

I hope you give this recipe a try and even if it doesn’t get to the front page of the one million google results, it becomes a favorite in your home!