This past week we celebrated Shrove Tuesday which is also known as Pancake Day, Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras (which is French for Fat Tuesday).
Shrove Tuesday gets its name from the custom for many Catholics of marking the day with feasting on pancakes (in ancient times it was a good way to use up eggs, milk and sugar) before the fasting season of Lent begins.
For Tuesday’s dinner we had a feast of delicious, fluffy pancakes and home-made baked beans, it was so good!
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A super easy recipe for the fluffiest, most delicious pancakes.
Recipe type: Breakfast or Dinner
Cuisine: Casual
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 Tbsp. melted butter
- 1 cup flour
- 2 Tbsp. white sugar
- ½ tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. baking powder
Instructions
- In large bowl combine egg, milk and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl combine dry ingredients.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry, stir gently.
- Pour in melted butter and stir gently until smooth.
- Ladle mixture into medium/high buttered frying pan.
- Cook until bubbles appear on surface and underside is golden.
- Flip and continue cooking until golden.
- Enjoy with butter and pure maple syrup!
Oh yummy! This recipe seems pretty easy and I love anything that’s easy and delicious. Thanks so much for sharing, definitely will try this recipe!
Yum! I love pancakes and trying new recipes :) I tried folding egg whites in mine for the first time this week (courtest of Paula Deen hehe) and it made them super light and fluffy! Thanks for sharing, I’ll have to try this version too :)
I love pancakes, and I never did growing up. I even had them for dinner on Sunday :P
I love your pancake recipe! My dad makes pancakes so light and fluffy, and I’ve never figured out his recipe yet (I guess I could ask)!
Jenna, you’ll have to compare it to your dad’s recipe and let me know how close they are!
I always beat my whites first as well. Makes them extra fluffy! I don’t have a big pancake eating family though so I don’t make them very often anymore.
For those that don’t eat pancakes a lot… you can make a big batch and freeze them. They freeze really well and then you just pop them in the toaster like a waffle when you want them.
I hate to admit this but I have never made pancakes from scratch before. This does look easy and delicious. Will have to try them.. I wonder, would the same recipe work for waffles… I can’t see why not?
I, too have never made them from scratch, but this looks pretty easy. I think I may give them a try.
Thanks for posting.