Ingredients
- 1½ cups flour
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2 tablespoons sugar
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2 teaspoons baking powder
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1¼ cups milk
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3 tablespoons canola oil or melted butter
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2 eggs
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¾ teaspoon salt
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2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Directions
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt, set aside.
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In a medium bowl, whisk together milk, oil or butter, and egg.
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Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients
- do not overmix.
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Set Skillet to 250ºF and 1-2 tablespoons oil.
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Pour 3 tablespoons batter at a time into Skillet and cook until you see bubbles form on the pancakes. Flip, then continue to cook until golden brown.
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Repeat steps 4 and 5 with remaining batter.
Recipe Note
TIPS
Have fun with more than just your everyday pancakes:
- Buttermilk: add ½ teaspoon of baking soda and replace milk with buttermilk.
- Berry: add ½ cup mixed berries.
- Greek yogurt and whole grain: replace flour with ½ cup whole-wheat flour, ¼ cup cornmeal and ¼ cup wheat germ, and ½ teaspoon baking soda. Replace milk with ⅔ cup plain Greek yogurt and ⅓ cup low-fat milk.
- Chocolate chip: add ½ cup chocolate chips.
- Cinnamon raisin: add ½ teaspoon cinnamon to dry ingredients. Soak ½ cup raisins in milk that is in the recipe and add to wet ingredients.
