So, we were at the grocery this weekend and found some fresh blueberries. I immediately felt like I was having a blueberry pancake craving. The blueberries then hopped into the cart all by themselves (I know, yeah yeah). And in the middle of my afternoon of job hunting, I found myself Googling "blueberry pancakes" and came up with this scratch recipe.
All of my experience with homemade pancakes resulted in a heavy brick like thing that really had no taste. But for some reason I felt the need for a challenge (or maybe the picture just looked really good). All the reviews seemed great and it appeared I had all the needed ingredients. So I thought I would give it a shot.
This is the recipe I found on Allrecipes.com called
"Todd's famous Blueberry Pancakes"
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp baking powder
2 tsp sugar
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/2 Tbsp butter, melted
1/2 cup fresh blueberries (or frozen blueberries, thawed)
In large bowl, sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and sugar.
in separate small bowl, wisk together the egg and milk. Add egg mixture to the flour mixture and mix thoroughly. If batter is too thick, continue to add 1 Tbsp at a time of extra milk until desired consistency. Batter should still be pretty thick. Stir in melted butter, then fold in the blueberries.
Let batter sit for 1 hour on counter ( a must).
Heat up griddle to med-high (or 350 degrees). Melt a pat of butter on griddle surface.
Ladle 1/4 cup batter on griddle for each cake. Turn when bubbles rise all around.
Serve with butter and warm syrup and enjoy! 1 batch makes about 8 medium pancakes.
I actually doubled this recipe so I could have some extra to freeze and have for breakfast later.
And this is the final stack! I could not believe how awesome they were. For scratch pancakes, they were actually like pillows and not bricks. The sugar adds a subtle sweetness and the blueberries add the yummy tartness. I think I drove JR crazy with my mmm mming the whole time. This recipe is definitely going in my keeper file.
