Sandwich artist? Dude, I’m a pancake artist …
But I’ve discovered that the one thing I am pretty damn good at making is pancakes. Pure, simple, pancakes.
D and C both adore pancakes (well, what kid doesn’t?) and could eat them every single morning. They practically do, actually, because Darling Husband and I take turns making huge batches and freezing them. We pop a few in the microwave each morning, and BAM! Just as good as the day they were made.
Here are some of the cute ways I’ve jazzed up our pancakes lately …
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Use fruit!
Adorable bear! I saw something like this on Facebook, and liked it so much I took a screenshot (the poor woman’s Pinterest? For when she’s not on Pinterest at the moment?). It’s just a couple of banana slices and chocolate chips, but MAN, IS IT CUTE! |
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Put your batter in a ketchup bottle!
I read on Pinterest that you can wash out an old ketchup bottle and use it for pancake batter, and it worked perfectly. I made a Barbie for C, and a horse for D. See that curled tail? KILLS ME. LOVE IT. |
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(Uh, always, always use the ketchup bottle to make shapes)
I made this “kitty” and this “horsie” without using the ketchup bottle, and you can see that the results, uh, are clearly not as nice. I tried to salvage the lumpy shapes with mini-M&Ms and chocolate chips for eyes — and some syrup whiskers! — but they still looked pretty crappy. |
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Use cookie cutters!
I used heart-shaped cookie cutters on our pancakes for Valentine’s Day this year. I also poured yogurt into heart-shaped silicone molds and stuck them in the freezer to make heart-shaped yogurt pop things. Heart-shaped EVERYTHING! |
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Write their name!
I used the ketchup bottle again this time, to spell out part of D’s name. Don’t mind that he’d already eaten part of the “X” when this photo was taken. |
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Freestyle it!
I got bored of making pancake horses the other day, so I felt a bit daring and decided to make spirals — mostly because I wanted to see how they looked against the black griddle (the answer: amazing). They were a bit tricky to flip, but well worth it. D was fascinated by them. |
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Trust me, making “crafty” pancakes makes the chore of churning out thousands of them MUCH more fun. Now when I do plain old circles, I’m like *yawn, really?*
xo
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