It’s super easy to make your own DIY Homemade Pancake Mix. It only takes 5 minutes to put together and then is just as easy to use as a box mix- but BETTER!
When it comes to weekend breakfasts, one of our favorites around here is pancakes. It’s hard to beat a nice fluffy pancake that’s golden on the outside and tender inside. With lots of syrup of course!
While it’s super easy to grab a box of store-bought pancake mix, add in an ingredient or two and cook – it’s just as easy to have your own HOMEMADE pancakes on the weekend.
All you need is a little preparation ahead of time ONCE to whip up a batch of this homemade pancake mix recipe to give you a bunch of weekends of easy-to-make pancakes!
This pancake mix recipe uses only 5 ingredients and will take you less than 5 minutes to mix together.
Once you do, you’ll have six batches of pancake mix to use whenever you’re ready to cook them.
The recipe below makes 6 cups of mix, but you can double or triple the recipe and save yourself some time in the long run.
When it comes time to making the pancakes, all you do is add an egg and a cup of milk to one cup of your homemade mix.
Then you can say that you always make your own pancakes from scratch. Look at you, all home-cooky and all!
You can also use the mix to make lots of other pancake variations. Here are three of my favorites:
Strawberry Pancakes with Cream Cheese Glaze are perfect for weekend brunch, Mother’s Day or any special breakfast. The recipe shows how to make the pancakes from scratch, but starting with your newly made mix is easier.
Another super easy option for using your pancake mix is to make sheet pan pancakes. This blueberry banana sheet pan pancakes recipe is extra delicious!
And if you want to get a hearty breakfast you can hold in your hand, your pancake mix is perfect for making Copycat McDonald’s McGriddles!
Another option is to store in it Mason jars. You can even get big half gallon Mason jars that look really cool sitting on your kitchen counter.
If you decide to make a huge batch of mix, you can even put it in freezer bags and store it in the freezer for up to two years.
Another awesome option is to make the pancake mix as a GIFT IDEA! Mix up the mix and put it in Mason jars or glass jars with a wire clamp and tie each with a bow made of colorful ribbon.
To take your gift to the next level, we made these labels including the simple instructions for your gift recipient to make their pancakes. You can print the Homemade Pancake Mix labels HERE.
I like to print them out on label paper and stick right to the jar, but you could also print on plain paper and glue to the front, or print on heavyweight paper, punch a hole in the corner and attach to the jar with a piece of ribbon or bakers twine.
It's super easy to make your own DIY Homemade Pancake Mix. It only takes 5 minutes to put together and then is just as easy to use as a box mix- but BETTER! (Recipe makes enough for 6 batches of 10-12 pancakes each.)
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Prep Time 5 minutesmins
Total Time 5 minutesmins
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 60Pancakes
Calories 49kcal
Ingredients
6cupFlour
1/4cupSugar
3tbspBaking Powder
2tspBaking Soda
1tspSalt
Instructions
Combine ingredients and mix well.
Store in air tight container.
To use, combine 1 cup mix with 1 cup milk and 1 egg.
I am not a nutritionist. These values were calculated automatically with the Spoonacular Food API.
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If you run out of pancake mix, you can make pancakes at home with just a few simple ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt, and a bit of sugar. Once you mix those dry ingredients, you'll add the milk, an egg, and butter to create a terrific pancake batter.
It's easy to find boxed pancake mix on sale for just a few dollars. So, if you use organic flour and organic sugar, your homemade pancake mix will cost you more. However, if you buy flour, sugar, baking soda, and baking powder in bulk, the cost per pancake is cheaper than a boxed mix.
1. Use Milk/ Alternative Milk Instead Of Water. Even though the mix may call for water, you can easily substitute that for an alternative milk (I like oat milk). You may have to add a dash more due to the difference in consistency, but it'll taste so much better!
To fix runny batter, just use a sifter to add in flour by the teaspoon. While flour will help thicken the batter, adding too much will result in something akin to elastic dough, which does not make for especially great pancakes.
Pancakes and waffles typically both contain baking soda, which causes them to rise. As soon as the baking soda is combined with the wet ingredients (which contain an acidic ingredient, like often buttermilk), it starts producing carbon dioxide gas bubbles that cause the batter to rise.
You will need 2 eggs, separated, 2 tbsp sugar, ½ tsp salt, 2 tsp baking powder, 60g vegetable oil, 300g buttermilk, 160g plain flour, and 1 tsp vanilla essence. Whisk the egg whites “*ntil foamy”. MiX all the other ingredients in a second bowl, then fold in the egg whites.
It should be thick enough that it will fall from your spoon in clumps, not thin, runny streams. The lumps help keep water from flowing and causing the mixture to spread out too much when cooking. This is one key to keeping the pancakes tall. Lumpy batter also holds on to air pockets as the pancakes cook.
I realize these mixes are supposed to be faster and easier than cooking up a batch of homemade pancakes, but honestly, from-scratch pancakes just taste much better than anything you can make from a box mix. They are also easy to whip up and take only about a minute longer to prepare than "quick" mix pancakes.
In a large mixing bowl, stir together flour, powdered milk, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Store in a large airtight container at room temperature.
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A popular brand of just-add water pancake mix is Aunt Jemima Buttermilk Complete. This just-add-water mix is a blend of dry ingredients like flour enriched with niacinamide, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic acid (all forms of Vitamin B), sugar, salt, and leavening agents like baking powder and baking soda.
For Better Make-Ahead Pancakes, Freeze the Batter!
Instead of baking up a double batch of pancakes this week and stashing them in the freezer, just double the batter and enjoy half for breakfast and freeze the rest of the batter for another day.
The easiest swap for every 1 teaspoon of baking powder in your pancake mix is a blend of 1/2 teaspoon of cream of tartar, 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda and 1/4 teaspoon of cornstarch.
Pancake flour is a type of flour that is specifically milled and blended to create the ideal texture for pancakes. It is typically made from a combination of soft wheat flour, which has a lower protein content than regular all-purpose flour, and other ingredients such as baking powder and salt.
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