Cooking: Whole-wheat Pancakes: And They Liked Them!

Every mom tries to find wholesome foods that their kids like. It can be a struggle. My mom used to serve us orange mashed potatoes, us kid's not knowing that they were orange from carrots! We just thought they were fun!

My youngest boy loves pancakes. I think he could eat them for every meal. However, a traditional pancake recipe just doesn't stack up to what I think he should be having for breakfast. So, I used trusty Allrecipes.com and found a wonderful whole-wheat pancake recipe! It is still a pancake that they cover in syrup and it has quite a bit of butter, so it's not winning any nutrition awards but it does replace most of the white flour with whole-wheat flour and it adds in some wheat germ.

Ingredients:

1 cup whole wheat flour 

2/3 cup all-purpose flour

1/3 cup wheat germ

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1 teaspoon salt

5 1/3 tablespoons unsalted butter

2 1/2 cups buttermilk

2 eggs, beaten

3 tablespoons unsalted butter

Directions

1. In a food processor or in a large bowl, combine the whole wheat flour, white flour, wheat germ or oats, baking powder, baking soda, brown sugar, and salt.
2. Cut the butter into small pieces with a knife, and add the butter to the flour-mixture. Mix until the mixture has a sand-like consistency. (I used a pastry cutter for this step)               
3. Make a well in the center of the flour-butter mixture, and add the buttermilk and eggs. Stir until the liquids are fully incorporated.
4. Heat a frying pan over medium heat and grease the surface with 1 tablespoon of butter or oil. Ladle the batter onto the surface to form 4 inch pancakes. Once bubbles form on the top of the pancakes, flip them over, and cook them on the other side for about 2 minutes.               

Cooking spray is a good option instead of butter to grease your pan. Obviously, butter tastes better.

The batter will be fairly lumpy but don't over mix, you won't like the results! Unless you like rubber pancakes.

Golden! And yes, that is butter in the pan.

You can find this recipe at: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/whole-wheat-pancakes/detail.aspx