The Best Pancake Recipe
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The Best Pancake Recipe
Description
The Best Pancake Recipe uses a combination of milk and sour cream to provide moisture and slight tang, balanced with granulated sugar, beaten eggs, and vanilla extract for flavor. Dry ingredients of all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt are added last and mixed only until combined, leaving small lumps, which helps maintain a tender, airy texture after cooking.
Pancakes are cooked on a non-stick skillet greased with browned butter, which contributes a nutty aroma and helps achieve a golden crust. The batter is portioned by ladle, and pancakes cook until bubbles form on top and bottoms turn golden, then flipped to finish cooking briefly. Repeating with remaining batter produces multiple pancakes.
Serving pancakes warm with maple syrup complements their mild sweetness and texture, making a classic breakfast dish. The recipe excludes added calories for cooking butter or syrup in nutrition information.
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- butter about 3 tablespoons, for greasing the pan
- maple syrup for serving
Instructions
- In a large bowl, add the milk, sour cream, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Whisk until combined. It’s ok to have small lumps of sour cream.
- Add the flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir just until no large clumps of dry flour remain, trying not to over mix. The batter should be very lumpy.
- Melt about 1/2 tablespoon of butter in a large non-stick skillet over medium-low heat until lightly bubbling and light brown.
- Ladle the batter into the skillet making 3-4 pancakes (about 1/4 cup of batter each). Cook 3-4 minutes, until bubbles form on top of each pancake and the bottoms are golden brown.
- Flip the pancakes. Cook 1-2 minutes, until the bottoms are golden brown.
- Carefully wipe out any excess browned butter with paper towels. Repeat with the remaining butter and pancake batter.
- Serve warm with maple syrup.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 12pancakes
Amount Per Serving
Calories 113 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1/12th of the recipe | |
| Calories | 113kcal | 6% |
| Carbohydrates | 17g | 6% |
| Protein | 3g | 6% |
| Fat | 3g | 5% |
| Saturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Cholesterol | 36mg | 12% |
| Sodium | 222mg | 9% |
| Potassium | 138mg | 3% |
| Sugar | 5g | 10% |
| Vitamin A | 145IU | 3% |
| Vitamin C | 0.1mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 71mg | 7% |
| Iron | 0.9mg | 5% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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