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This homemade Pancake mix Recipe is going to give you the BEST homemade pancakes! Everyone loves pancakes and the only thing better then pancakes is homemade pancakes from a homemade pancake mix!
Homemade Pancakes
The Best Pancakes EVER!
I love breakfast and the large variety of breakfast foods that you can enjoy. I especially love pancakes. The most important thing when making homemade pancakes is the base of your pancake. The mix needs to be amazing so you can add in anything you want to like fresh fruit and chocolate chips.
If you are looking for how to make homemade pancake mix from scratch then you are in luck with this amazing breakfast recipe!
This homemade pancake recipe gives you perfectly fluffy pancakes that are perfect for a morning breakfast. Ps. A Secret – we totally enjoy them on nights that we do breakfast for dinner too!
You will have the most amazing pancakes and be able to add in any add ins you want to, from berries to chocolate chips and more! I think this is the best pancake recipe for kids because they can get creative with their add ins! This is our go to homemade pancakes recipe.
If you are looking for how to make pancakes with out pancake mix, you are in luck! You don’t need that boxed stuff to make these, and you most likely have everything in your pantry that you will need! This delicious pancake recipe makes amazing thick fluffy pancakes. I might be a little bit biased, but I think they will become your family’s new favorite pancake recipe.
If you love pancakes then you also should try these awesome Pancake recipes:
- Funfetti Pancakes Mix
- Cinnamon Swirl Pancakes Recipe
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pancakes
- Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Pancakes
- Blueberry Cheesecake Pancakes
How to Make Pancake Mix for Homemade Pancakes
The boxes of pancake mix you buy in the store are nothing more then the dry ingredients. When you are cooking pancakes at home with store bought mix you are using ingredients that you already probably have at home.
Boxed pancakes are quick and easy to use but the pancakes are far from amazing. The secret is to make your own homemade pancake mix to use when you are making homemade pancakes. And I have to tell you it is just as easy to make your own pancake mix at home as buying a box in the store. Not only will you have better pancakes but it is cheaper to make your own mix.
You can double, trip or even quadruple or more this pancake dry mix recipe and then store it in a canister for easy pancake making!
How to Make Pancakes fluffy
To have the best fluffy pancake recipe ever the most important thing is using fresh ingredients. Old ingredients will give you flat pancakes. If you are making homemade pancake mix ahead of time then you want to be sure that you store it in an air tight container so everything stays fresh.
Do NOT over mix. You want those clumps in your pancakes, they are vital to making pancakes fluffy. If you over mix the batter you will end up with tough, unfluffy pancakes.
Don’t flip your pancakes to soon (or to late).When you see the bubbles starting to pop flip that pancake over! Over cooking pancakes will also make them tough and unfluffy.
How to Make the Best Pancakes at home
For the best pancakes recipe the most important thing is the pancake base. You can not makes the best pancakes ever if you have a yucky base. This easy homemade pancake mix is the best one there is, I promise you won’t be disappointed.
It is also important that you grease your pan well. Pancakes will stick to a pan if it is not greased enough.
This spatula that is pancake sized is my favorite thing to use when I am making homemade pancakes. It is huge and makes it so your pancakes won’t flop over when you are flipping them! I also like to use this pancake mix dispenser so that I have less mess when I am pouring the pancake batter into my greased pan on the stove. I want as little mess as possible so I can enjoy my pancakes while they are right out of the pan!
What can you add to Pancakes
The great thing about pancakes is how easy it is to customize them and change up the flavors. Once you have an amazing base you can add just about any thing to them! This homemade pancake mix recipe will give you the ability to add any toppings or add ins that you love and still have an amazing pancake.
Some of our favorite add ins:
- Strawberries
- blueberries
- chocolate chips
- spinkles
- blackberries
What to serve with Pancakes
There are lots of tasty sides to serve with pancakes for breakfast. Some of our favorites are:
- Bacon (Be sure to check out the the best ever bacon recipe)
- Sausage
- Pork Roll
- canadian bacon
- Fruit
- Fruit Salad
How to Freeze Pancakes
I like to make large batches of pancakes at a time to make breakfasts during the busy week even easier.
Freezing pancakes is so easy. Just cook your pancakes and allow them to cool. Once they are cooled stack into piles of serving size you normally make. We do 3 pancakes per pile. Wrap each pile with plastic wrap and then put all wrapped piles of pancakes into a gallon size freezer bag and place in the freezer.
To reheat the homemade pancakes, remove a frozen pancake stack and heat in the microwave in the plastic wrap for 30-45 seconds depending on your microwave.
Homemade Pancakes Ingredients
This recipe is going to give you amazing fluffy pancakes. Just follow the directions and you will have the most amazing, fluffy pancakes ever. I promise!
- Flour
- Baking powder
- salt
- sugar
- milk
- egg
- butter
- vanilla extract
How to Make Pancakes from Scratch
Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together in a large bowl.
Combine the milk and egg together in a medium sized bowl.
Add the milk mixture to the dry ingredients, gently stir until combined.
Stir in the melted butter and vanilla extract.
Heat your frying pan or griddle to medium and pour the batter on a lightly oiled pan, flip when bubbles start to pop.
Cook for an additional two minutes.
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- Blueberry Streusel Muffins
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- Breakfast Tacos
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- Homemade french toast sticks
Homemade Pancake Mix
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 Cups flour
- 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 1/4 cups milk
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons butter melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together in a large bowl.
- Combine the milk and egg together in a medium sized bowl.
- Add the milk mixture to the dry ingredients, gently stir until combined.
- Stir in the melted butter and vanilla extract.
- Heat your frying pan or griddle to medium and pour the batter on a lightly oiled pan, flip when bubbles start to pop.
- Cook for an additional two minutes.
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Jaime C says
These came out awesome!! Thanks for the recipe
Kathy says
What is the “secret ingredient” that it mentions?
Kathy says
Never mind. I read through the article-it’s vanilla.
Kathy says
never mind-it’s vanilla
Frank Greenlee says
Always have used vanilla in my homemade pancake recipe. I also melt 4 tablespoons of butter, add 1 egg and use brown sugar instead of cane. Whisk together. Then instead of liquid buttermilk, I use powdered, since I would throw away the leftover buttermilk and add it to the dry mixture. For a special treat, I sometimes add Carnation Malt Powder for extra “Malted” flavor. Yummmmm!!
Zchonie says
You didn’t say whether you use self rising or plain flour.?
Patricia says
I never saw a response, which flour did you try to use and did it work?
Stephanie says
All- purpose
Brooke Mayberry says
I used run of the mill hard non-bleached flour and they came out wonderful. I never have AP or SR, Cake or baking flour, just straight hard flour.
Brit says
Well you are adding baking powder so I think it’s self explanatory…
Rob g. says
Buttermilk makes it taste over the top!
Joe says
Thanks for the tip! I will give buttermilk a try.
Stephanie says
Let us know how you like it.
Christi says
Great. Now I’m hungry for pancakes…. guess I’m making these in just a couple of hours.
Brooke Mayberry says
These are so wonderful! Perfect for when the kids come over and camping! I have used 2 types of eggs, and the duck eggs make it more moist, there is no taste difference either! Thank you for posting this, this will definitely be jotted down in the recipe book!
Stephanie says
I’m so glad you enjoyed them, I have never had the chance for cooking with duck eggs before.
Sylvia CecIl says
The recipe calls for ! egg. The directions say to combine milk and EGGS. I’m confused.
Please advise.
Thank You
Stephanie says
the s on the egg was a typo and now it’s fixed.
Taylor says
This recipe turned out way too thick. I had to add an additional 1/2 cup of milk in order for it to be scoop-able. For the first pancake, we had to use a spoon to flatten it out, since it was so thick.
Stephanie says
I’m sorry this happened I use this recipe all the time and it never does this. I will test out the recipe again to make sure there isn’t a typo.
Erika says
I had to add milk as week was crazy thick like cake batter
Lucy says
I had 1% milk so i used that but mine mix was too watery. I had to add more flour but still flat. :/ Great flavor tho!
Rachel R. says
The recipe didn’t work well when I cooked them the middle wouldn’t cook all the way ?
Stephanie says
Cooke them on a lower temperature.
Nicole says
Hi. I just made these and the batter was a little thick for me also. I ended up using a total of 2 cups milk. Otherwise they taste delicious.
Heather N says
This recipe is perfect! I used 1% milk and the pancakes were flavorful and the consistency was splendid! I’ll never buy pre-mix batter again! Thank you for sharing!! 🙂
Brianna says
I found this on Pinterest and have used this recipe time and time again. I always think it’s too watery but later realize it’s fine. My toddler gets so excited when I tell him we’re having pancakes! I do exactly what the recipe calls for.
Amber says
Yea this didn’t work for us either, the batter was really thick and gummy, similar in consistency to cookie dough. We tried putting them in the pan and they would not spread and ended up adding almost a cup more of milk.
Peg P says
Finally got around to trying this recipe. OMG! It’s DELICIOUS! I knew, before even eating them, that they would be great. They looked better than the other pancakes I’ve made (whether from scratch or from a mix). Even my granddaughter said they taste better. Thank you. This recipe definitely is a keeper!
Margaret says
These are delicious! Going into permanent recipe folder. I made them with diced up apples. Used canola oil instead of melting butter because I was too lazy. Very tasty! Family loved them too.
Bella says
How many pancakes
did it make?
Stephanie says
6-8 pancakes depending on the size you make them.
Peg P says
This is my new go-to recipe for pancakes. I won’t buy a mix anymore after trying these. Only thing I do differently is that I prepare the pancake batter before cooking the bacon and sausage. If the batter sits for a little, the pancakes are even fluffier. And this last time, I forgot to add the melted butter and they still turned out great.
Granddaughter LOVES them. And if she’s happy, Nana’s happy 🙂
Patty says
We gave up flour (and all carbs) a while ago and thought we’d have a cheat. Tried these and they are really good. Buttery! I don’t use syrup but these don’t need any anyway. Really good!
Elaine says
I’ve always made mediocre pancakes. These were yummy! I did repkace half the milk with Natural Bliss sweet cream coffee creamer. My husband od 22 years told me “Great breakfast!” 3 times…not kidding. Maybe hes just getting old, and forgot if he already told me. Lol
grny28 says
Come across this a few years ago. It’s the best you’ll ever make I promise. To send it over the top I add some buttermilk powder to the mix.
Stephanie says
Oh i like the sound of that!
Kerryn Price says
I found these way too salty.
Stephanie says
I’m sorry you found these too salty did you only use one teaspoon of salt? If so you can cut that in half.
Brittany says
I only used 1 teaspoon of salt too and it was CRAZY salty. Like inedible.
Stephanie says
what type of salt did you use because I only cook with kosher and its never too salty?
robert a gamache says
does anyone else use whole wheat flour had heavy hot cakes until i used baking powder and baking soda together nice and light
Norell says
Made these last night for dinner lol, and was told by my Honey that I should never make any other kind of pancake (mix or homemade) ever again! The only change I made was to add in 1 mashed banana cause I love banana pancakes.
MidgetMomma says
I am so glad you loved them 🙂
Sonia Dee says
It was just amazing. I loved them! The vanilla added just that right touch.
Debi says
Could you use Almond flour in place of regular flour. I’m on a low carb lifestyle and I’m trying to find a pancake recipe that I can make? Thanks for sharing.
Stephanie says
You can but it will leave you flatter pancakes.
Bonnie says
Best pancakes ever! I didn’t change a thing! I gave our pancakes a sprinkling of cinnamon and powdered sugar before serving–YUM!
Stephanie says
Oh good idea ill have to try that next time!
Suzanne says
These looks great! It is so much more special to make them yourself for the family!
Vanessa says
Thanks for sharing! It is fun to learn new tricks when it comes to pancakes!
Michael A Williams says
Best pancakes ever. I just made these wonderful fluffy tasty delicious outstanding wonderful pancakes for my family while on this (Quarantine lockdown Corona pandemic.)
Since all of the grocery stores are completely bare nothing on the shelves especially pancake mix I decided to look for a great from scratch pancake recipe. I must be the luckiest guy in theWorld because on my first search I found this pancake recipe and it was perfect my family absolutely loved it thank you so much I will be tuning in for more wonderful recipes. I’ll be making a lot more things from scratch now since were locked down at home.
Tara says
These were amazing! I followed the directions exactly and they came out perfect. I cooked them on a little bit of a lower temperature because I am famous for burning pancakes.
I’ll be making these again for sure, no more box mixes for me
Vanessa says
I just made these pancakes and this recipe is a keeper for sure! They were fluffy and tasty as promised! They are on the thicker side but this is a positive because it encourages more fluffiness. If you want thinner pancakes then it might be best to go for crepes instead? Thank you for this recipe though it was great and one I’ll come back to often!