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How to Make Chocolate Chip Pancakes - From Scratch Pancake Recipe

2010-07-08T07:49:00.000-07:00

Breakfast doesn't have to be boring -- it can be a treat! Reward your family up with a warm, delicious stack of chocolate chip pancakes to start the day off right.

Once you have made chocolate chip pancakes from scratch, you'll realize that a tempting home-cooked breakfast can be so much better than going to a restaurant. A word of warning, though... Your family might bug you to make chocolate chip pancakes every weekend!

Recipe for Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Chocolate Chip Pancake Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup milk (anything from skim through whole milk is fine)
1 egg
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4-1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips* (1/2 cup for chocolate lovers!)

(Double the ingredients above to serve more people)

Kitchen Items Needed:

1 large bowl and 1 small bowl
Egg beater or fork
Nonstick griddle or large flat pan

Cooking Instructions:

1. Preheat a griddle or large pan to medium-hi heat and grease lightly

2. In your large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

3. In the small bowl, beat the egg, milk, oil, vanilla and chocolate chips.

4. Add your egg mixture to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.

5. Pour batter by 1/4 cupfuls onto your greased griddle or pan, making sure to get an even amount of chocolate chips in each pancake; flip pancakes when bubbles begin to form on top side of pancakes. Cook until the other side turns a golden brown.

Make them Your Own:

You can always customize this chocolate chip pancake recipe by topping the pancakes with fresh fruit, powdered sugar or any kind of syrup you could imagine. *Another way to make your pancakes unique is to try other chips such as white chocolate, swirl or butterscotch chips. These are available at most grocery stores.

Have a great breakfast and stop back by From Scratch Pancakes for more pancake recipes!!

Banana Pancakes from Scratch Recipe - How to Make Banana Pancakes

2009-09-21T10:12:00.000-07:00

How to Make Banana Pancakes from Scratch

Delicious banana pancakes from scratch are sure to brighten any morning (or afternoon, or night...)! They are great with maple or berry syrup and with fresh fruit on top.

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour (sifted)
1 tbsp sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 ripe bananas, chopped or mashed
1 egg (beaten)
1 cup milk
2 tbsp vegetable oil

Optional:

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Cooking Instructions

1. Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, mix egg, milk, bananas and vegetable oil.

2. Stir flour mixture into banana mixture and mix up until there are no dry flour lumps. If desired, add a small amount of milk to the mix if desired for easier pouring.

3. Heat a greased wide frying pan or griddle over medium heat. Pour the batter onto the griddle to whatever size pancake you'd like. Cook until pancakes are golden brown on both sides; serve hot.

Variations:

Chopped walnuts can be added to the mix for a rich, nutty flavor.

Enjoy your irresistible homemade from scratch banana pancakes!

From Scratch Blueberry Pancakes Recipe - How to Make Blueberry Pancakes

2009-09-12T17:02:00.000-07:00

This recipe makes approximately 12 delicious blueberry pancakes from scratch.

Ingredients:

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour (sifted)
2 eggs
2-1/4 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1 cup milk
3 tbsp butter, melted
1 cup fresh blueberries (frozen or canned also okay, but fresh preferred)

Cooking Procedure

1. In a small bowl, beat eggs until well-mixed; set aside. This will be the batter bowl.

2. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.

3. Stir milk and melted butter into eggs.

4. Stir the dry flour mixture into batter bowl; mix up until batter is smooth.

5. Rinse blueberries in cool water and remove excess water with a colander or by gently dabbing with a paper towel.

6. Carefully stir blueberries into the batter.

7. On a hot greased griddle (over medium-low heat), pour whatever sized pancakes you like -- from silver dollar to plate-filler -- and flip when you see bubbles coming to the surface of the pancakes. Brown lightly on both sides. If pancakes cook too quickly, lower stovetop heat slightly.

This from-scratch blueberry pancake recipe makes 12 pancakes (more or less if you prefer smaller or larger flapjacks). Maple syrup and a dash of powdered sugar makes it a real treat. You can even throw a mint leaf on top if you're feeling crazy. Enjoy!

Have a great breakfast and stop back by From Scratch Pancakes for more tasty pancake recipes!

How to Make Money with Pancakes

2009-06-24T23:24:00.000-07:00

Making Money with Pancakes

You can make lots of money with hot, delicious pancakes if you start a successful breakfast restaurant, found a company that makes popular pancake mix, or invent a revolutionary new pancake maker that makes perfect from scratch pancakes. You may need a patent lawyer for that last one. But if you can pull off any one of those feats, you stand to rake in lots of cash and be a self-made businessperson.

How to Get Rich

Yes, if you are an innovative person with a creative business mind, you can get rich with just about anything once you apply yourself. And when you are enjoying all the money you made, you can celebrate with a tall stack of fresh, homemade from scratch pancakes with expensive maple syrup cascading down its sides. Doesn't that sound great?

The Pancake Life of Luxury

If you were to get rich with pancakes, here are some things you might want to do:

Buy a new house
Travel around the world
Visit luxury resorts
Buy an expensive car
Give everyone you know gifts
Donate money and pancakes to charity
Invest in stocks and bonds
Become a pancake afficionado
Ice out your grill with syrup

These are just a handful of the worldly possibilities you might enjoy if you really pursue money-making with sweet, warm pancakes. Make a plan for yourself and see it through and you will succeed in business, as well as breakfast.

How to Make Pancakes from Scratch

2009-06-24T23:03:00.000-07:00

How to Make Pancakes from Scratch

Pancakes are so delicious on a sunny morning, with birds singing outside your window, money raining from the sky and a new day waiting to be experienced, but how do you make pancakes?

You could buy the frozen pancakes from your local grocery store, but why? You can make better tasting and healthier pancakes from scratch. And it costs less money! Making pancakes from scratch really isn't that hard to do.

Ingredients needed for making pancakes from scratch:

2 cups of all-purpose flour
2 cups of milk
1 egg, beaten
2 tablespoons of butter, melted
2-1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt

Cooking instructions:

Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together, breaking up any stuck-together bits.
In another bowl, mix the milk together with the egg and then add to flour mixture, stirring until smooth and lump-free. Stir in in melted butter.
Cook on a medium-hot, nonstick griddle or wide, flat pan, using about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake (or more if you want bigger pancakes!).
Cook until you see a number of bubbles coming through the top of the pancakes and flip to lightly brown each side evenly.

The timing for flipping pancakes takes a little trial-and-error as each pan and stovetop are different, but it's better to flip a little early than to wait and incinerate your pancakes like a spent charcoal briquette. Pancakes are SO GOOD that this would be a tragedy. This recipe for serves 4 (or 2 hungry ultra breakfast lovers supreme).

Optional: If you prefer sweeter pancakes, you may add some sugar to the batter before cooking. A tablespoon is usually enough to give them a lightly sweet taste. Also, for a nice country flavor, a quick splash of vanilla extract can be mixed in.

I hope you enjoy your mouth-watering pancakes from scratch. There are so many ways to make pancakes... stay tuned for more great recipes (pancakes banana pancakes) and breakfast ideas that will please your tastebuds and save money!