Learn How to Make Homemade Pancakes

If you want to learn how to make homemade pancakes, then you're going to love this. This is one of the best homemade pancake recipes that I've yet to find.

I made these the other day and just wanted to pass the recipe along, because I think I'm hooked on homemade pancakes now!

So if you want to learn how to make homemade pancakes, then these are not complicated at all to make - it's actually very easy!

The reason that I made them was because I didn't have enough pancake mix to make as many as I wanted to, so I said to myself, let me see if I can find a recipe for homemade. And sure enough, I did. I found this recipe from my favorite recipe site allrecipes.com.

I've had my account with them since 2004 and have found so many great recipes over the years. But anyhow, this one has just about has 5 stars. And I also made sure to read through a few of the reviews to look for some extra tips, so I'll share what I learned along the way and what I also came up with myself.

First, here is the direct link to the recipe in case anyone would like to check it out. I'll also post it below with a tweak and with a little more instruction.

Homemade Complete Pancake Mix

(Makes 8 cups.)

Original Ingredients:

6 cups of all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of dry milk powder
1 cup of shortening

Based on reviews, I added these ingredients:

1/4 cup - 1/2 of a cup of sugar
2 teaspoons of baking soda
I used milk in place of powdered milk (Only because, I didn't have powdered milk!)
And, I added 1 tablespoon of melted butter per cup of mixture that I was making, that way I didn't have to add butter on top. I thought that sounded like a pretty cool idea, so I gave it a try, and loved it.
Some people chose to not add the shortening. I added the shortening.

Homemade Pancakes Directions:

1.) Mix all of your original ingredients together in addition to the sugar and baking soda if you would like to add them. Then, cut in the shortening.

2.) Now you can make the entire mix of pancakes if you need to cook for a lot of people, or you can only use what you need and save the rest for another time in a seal tight container. I chose to only use what I needed and then I stored the rest. So I took out 3 cups just like you would with the store bought boxed kind of pancake mix and put those three cups into a bowl. Then, I continued onto the next step.

3.) Now that you've added the amount of mix that you'd like to use, begin adding your water/milk and/or egg. There was no instructions for this, so try to remember maybe one cup of liquid per cup of mixture. I used 3 cups of pancake mix, with one egg (not everyone used eggs), one cup of milk and almost 2 cups of water.

When I was on my third cup of water, I added it a little at a time just like I do with store bought pancake mix, as to not make them watery and the mix reminded me of Bisquik pancake mix. If you've ever made Bisquick pancakes, then you'll know what I'm talking about.

*An Extra Tip: I would just like to add that my 12 year old was the first to taste these pancakes and said, "Mmm, it tastes just like a sugar cookie!" Now, while sugar cookies are great, lol, I don't want my pancakes tasting like a sugar cookie.

So next time I'll try 1/4 cup of sugar and go from there. But all-in-all, these pancakes were some of the best I've ever had. And I think this is the way I plan on making pancakes from now on in the future! They are so yummy!!