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[Brentastic]

I've been wanting to make some pancakes for the family but I've never made pancakes.  Does anyone have a "killer" recipe they'd like to share so I can make some cakes next weekend?  FYI, I'm not a fan of fruit or anything "healthy" like that.  The richer and sweeter the better.  I love vanilla too, so any recipe that involved vanilla extract would probably be a hit with me.

[Caveman_Nick]

Bisquick, milk, eggs, salt, pepper, cinnamon, small pinch of nutmeg, vanilla extract.  Makes great cakes.

Edited by Caveman_Nick, 26 February 2012 - 11:17 AM.

[Caveman_Nick]

Also, you can get madagascar vanilla sugar.  Whip the sugar with butter (and a little bit of cinnamon if you like) and use that for the butter you put on the cakes.  Mmmmmm.

Edited by Caveman_Nick, 26 February 2012 - 11:19 AM.

[Jimmy Neutron]

Caveman_Nick, on 26 February 2012 - 11:18 AM, said:

Also, you can get madagascar vanilla sugar.  Mmmmmm.

Recentluy found some madagascar bourbon vanilla.... killer.  Especially like it in my coke.  

[Brentastic]

Caveman_Nick, on 26 February 2012 - 11:16 AM, said:

Bisquick, milk, eggs, salt, pepper, cinnamon, small pinch of nutmeg, vanilla extract.  Makes great cakes.

So do I follow the directions on the bisquick box then just add the spices in teaspoons?

[Bier Meister]

alton brown has a good mixture.  i typically use bisquick, vanilla, sugar, cinnamon in the batter.  sometimes i will add some creamer that mrs has around, or cocoa.  there are several pancake threads floating around, but i don't know how to use the quote feature for the new format yet

[sundaynfl]

Agree with Bier, the Alton Brown one is the one we always use. DON"T OVER MIX!

[Caveman_Nick]

Brentastic, on 27 February 2012 - 12:07 AM, said:

So do I follow the directions on the bisquick box then just add the spices in teaspoons?

Not exactly.  There isn't so much an exact amount that I use, I just eyeball it.

[Brentastic]

I finally made some cakes for the family this morning.  Here's the recipe I used:

2 cups Bisquick
1 3/4 cups buttermilk
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp sugar
2 eggs

Flavor was great but they did not rise very much and were not very fluffy.  Any tips on how to get my cakes fluffier?  Like I said though, the taste, which is most important was great!

[MikesVikes]

I have an aunt that makes my batter for me.  Aunt jemima.

[sundaynfl]

Brentastic, on 04 March 2012 - 10:21 AM, said:

I finally made some cakes for the family this morning.  Here's the recipe I used:

2 cups Bisquick
1 3/4 cups buttermilk
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp sugar
2 eggs

Flavor was great but they did not rise very much and were not very fluffy.  Any tips on how to get my cakes fluffier?  Like I said though, the taste, which is most important was great!

Add some Club Soda to the mix to get lighter fluffier cakes.

[Caveman_Nick]

Brentastic, on 04 March 2012 - 10:21 AM, said:

I finally made some cakes for the family this morning.  Here's the recipe I used:

2 cups Bisquick
1 3/4 cups buttermilk
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp sugar
2 eggs

Flavor was great but they did not rise very much and were not very fluffy.  Any tips on how to get my cakes fluffier?  Like I said though, the taste, which is most important was great!

Buttermilk will weigh them down.  Cut that with half milk, and if that does not doo the trick try adding a small egg to the mix

[buddahj]

Jimmy Neutron, on 26 February 2012 - 05:36 PM, said:

Recentluy found some madagascar bourbon vanilla.... killer.  Especially like it in my coke.  

Doesn't it clump up the coke & make it hard to snort???

Edited by buddahj, 05 March 2012 - 11:44 PM.

[buddahj]

Here's the recipe I used last night.

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  
• 1 teaspoon salt
  
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
  
• 1 1/4 cups milk
  
• 1 egg
  
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted

I also threw in some cinnamon. These fluffed up pretty good. Did you sift or mix the dry ingredients before adding the wet ingredients?

[Brentastic]

Caveman_Nick, on 05 March 2012 - 05:10 PM, said:

Buttermilk will weigh them down.  Cut that with half milk, and if that does not doo the trick try adding a small egg to the mix

Yeah, either that or I was thinking of cutting back to 1 1/4 cups of buttermilk.  The batter was too liquify, imo and probably needs to be thicker.  Although I'm not sure if thicker batter makes thicker/fluffier cakes.

[Brentastic]

buddahj, on 05 March 2012 - 06:26 PM, said:

Here's the recipe I used last night.

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  
• 1 teaspoon salt
  
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
  
• 1 1/4 cups milk
  
• 1 egg
  
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted

I also threw in some cinnamon. These fluffed up pretty good. Did you sift or mix the dry ingredients before adding the wet ingredients?

I did not sift the dry stuff.  I tried to break up the clumps with a fork.

[Brentastic]

Caveman_Nick, on 05 March 2012 - 05:10 PM, said:

Buttermilk will weigh them down. Cut that with half milk, and if that does not doo the trick try adding a small egg to the mix

This did the trick

[Chavez]

2 C milk
1 1/2 C flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp honey
3 tbsp butter
1 egg


My trick is to throw it all in the blender and use that to mix it up. Using honey instead of sugar really seems to make a difference.