Friday, May 20, 2011

Sweet Whole Wheat Pancakes

I have three reasons to be excited this morning:

1. It's my day off and Bruce and I are going to have a finance meeting (don't judge, I'm legitimately excited about this).
2. The sun is out.


3. I made these for breakfast.

I woke up in the mood for pancakes, but realized that I am all out of both any kind of pancake/waffle mix and white flour.


THEN I realized - who needs white flour?  I have whole wheat flour!


THEN I thought - Bruce won't eat them if I use whole wheat flour.


THEN I realized - this could be a fun challenge.  Is it possible to bake something with whole wheat that doesn't taste like it's been baked with whole wheat?


Yes.  Yes it is.

Here's the recipe - unfortunately, I thought this was going to be a total bust and therefore did not document the whole process.  But you get the idea.


Sweet Whole Wheat Pancakes

1 1/2 cups Whole Wheat Flour
4 teaspoons Baking Powder
pinch Salt
3 teaspoons Brown Sugar (the compacted kind)
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 1/4 - 1 1/2 cups Milk (start with 1 1/4 and splash more in if need be)
1 egg
3 tablespoons Vegetable Oil


This really is a simple case of combine your ingredients, whisk them together and pour them onto a hot skillet.


I've found that whole wheat flour can be finicky - so start with the low end of the milk, whisk everything together and then add more if you feel like you want a thinner mixture.


The verdict?  Bruce says they were 'pretty good' - but he could still taste the whole grains.


Impressive considering when I started making them and he watched me pull the whole wheat flour out he said, 'Oh, I'm not really in the mood for pancakes.'  Right.

TGIF!

3 comments:

  1. Those look absolutely delicious! I've been thinking about pancakes lately; I just need to take a little time to make them!

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  2. You just made me hungry for tomorrow morning...!!! I'm going to have to try these!

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  3. Oh my, those look amazing!! Way better than any all-purpos flour ones I've seen.

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