How to Make Pancakes from Scratch

Learn How to Make Pancakes from Scratch

Pancakes are great to make on a lazy weekend or when you have some extra time and extra hunger for something delicious. They take a bit longer to make than it does to pour a bowl of cereal, but it is worth it.

First, you need to make your pancake batter. Find a good recipe and follow the instructions. Mix your flour, baking powder, and salt in one bowl, and the wet ingredients in another. Make sure the flour is sifted if it calls for sifted flour. You don't want any lumps.

Pour the flour into the wet ingredients and slowly stir it together. Do not beat it or else you will get tough pancakes. You want fluffy, light pancakes, not dense, tough pancakes. Slowly stir it in with a wooden spoon and avoid using an electric mixer.

Now you have the pancake batter ready. If you want to make chocolate chip pancakes, blueberry pancakes, or some other variation to your pancakes, now is when you add it in. Throw in a handful of chocolate chips, blueberries, etc.

Prepare your pan and start cooking.

To make pancakes, you should use a griddle. You can use one on your stove top or you can use an electric griddle that you put on your counter and plug in. It really doesn't matter what you use. If you don't have a griddle, just use the widest, flattest pan you have.

Lightly grease the griddle. You can use vegetable oil, cooking spray, or butter. Use only a little and if you are using butter, put it on just before you make the pancakes so that it doesn't sit on the pan and burn.

How to Make Golden Brown Pancakes

If you want to know how to make pancakes that are golden brown, you need to make sure the griddle is greased and hot, and that you keep the pancakes on long enough to cook. Don't flip them too early.

Pour about 1/4 cup of batter onto the greased griddle. Let it cook on the pan for about a minute until tiny bubbles form along the surface of the pancakes. Gently flip the pancakes over with a cooking spatula. Let them cook on the other side for another minute.

Once each batch of pancakes is finished, either serve immediately, or keep them covered so that they don't get cold. Keep cooking pancakes until all the batter is gone.

Now that you know the basics of how to make pancakes, you can be a little more creative. Make different varieties or form different shapes with the batter. Have fun with it!

Top the pancakes with butter and syrup, for the traditional pancake meal, or add sliced fruit, nuts, whipped cream, chocolate syrup, or whatever else you can think of that you think you'll like. Have all sorts of toppings and let all the people who are eating choose what they want to put on top.

Once you learn how to make pancakes from scratch, you can make them whenever you have a morning that is free and plenty of time to cook up some pancakes in the kitchen for everyone to eat.