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How to make excellent pancakes

How to make excellent pancakes
Why, hello there! You've arrived at the perfect time, I was just about to make a batch of my favourite fluffy pancakes! In this lesson, I'll teach you exactly how I make them so that you can make your own.

The best part of this recipe is how simple the recipe is! A close second is that these pancakes are the best that I've ever personally eaten, but I'll leave that judgment up to you once you've finished making these.
 
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Step 1Equipment & Ingredients

Equipment & Ingredients
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The most important thing that you need to know before starting any cooking adventure is the equipment and ingredients that you will need.


Ingredients:

2 cups White Flour
2 tbsp. Sugar
4 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Salt
2 Eggs
2 tbsp. melted butter (can substitute with oil, I personally use vegetable oil here)
2 cups Milk


Equipment:

Electric Mixer with whisk attachment (Not strictly required, but it'll make everything a lot easier)
Griddle (For cooking the pancakes on)
Measuring Spoons (Tablespoon and teaspoon)
1 cup dry measuring cup (For measuring larger amounts of ingredients)
2 cup liquid measuring cup (For measuring and mixing wet ingredients)
1/4 - 1/3 cup dry measuring cup (Works well for measuring batter onto the griddle)
Whisk (You really only need this if you aren't using an electric mixer, but it's a useful thing to have around anyway.)
Spatula (For flipping the pancakes)
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18 comments
Dec 6, 2011. 10:37 AMjdenton2 says:
If you want to make super-fluffy pancakes and don't have any buttermilk on hand you can stir a tablespoon of lemon juice into your wet ingredients for any pancake recipe. The acid in the lemon juice does the same thing as the buttermilk, which is react with the baking powder, creating more levening. This also works with biscuits, dumplings, etc. You can use lemon juice for sweet applications and vinegar for savory applications. It turns regular Bisquick pancakes into slap-yer-mama pancakes, and everyone will think you are a master chef. Also, do not over-stir your batter, just mix till the ingredients come together. You DO want the "clumps" that 555 mentioned. After you barely mix the ingredients together, let the batter stand for 5 minutes before beginning to cook the pancakes. This will give you an active batter with lots of lift. If you over-mix the batter you will get pancakes with the consistency of cardboard, which are none-too-yummy, but make great frisbees.

Mar 26, 2011. 7:47 AMducktape.mac says:
thanks! my brother ate the last of everything around here, so you can see why i'm looking at this instructable.
Mar 9, 2011. 1:46 AMkutil says:
Hey man thanks ! ur best i just got an awesome breakfast and i pleased my home-folks too :) :
Feb 10, 2011. 1:58 PMgreenfreak says:
jsut made these pancakes and fell in love!!!!!!!! my girlfriends gunna love em! thanks! <3
Dec 13, 2010. 10:21 AMBalintRules says:
Thay look good... but have you tried MY pancakes? I'll give u 4.5*

(actually l'll give u 5*)
Jul 31, 2010. 10:47 PMJimmy Proton says:
wow thoes where amazing but they where a little salty
Nov 19, 2009. 11:04 PM555mst555 says:
oh...btw how do you measure cups..i'm from singpore and we dont use "cups"in recipes....we go by weight..so...yeah....and i added the dry stuff together already-.-....i used liquid measuring cups i put 2(100ml) cups....so how much more flor should i put in.....or is enough?
Nov 20, 2009. 7:00 AM555mst555 says:
oh...abit too late bud it's ok....haha..

btw,.i made it and it was great!...way better than the ones i buy at the supermarket....

and oh,when i added all the wet and dry stuff together and mixed,it formed little clumps on the surface......they look like oats...the clumps are mushy on the outside but still powder(flour) inside...i kno it's not suppose to happen....so how do i avoid getting stuff like that
Nov 19, 2009. 11:00 PM555mst555 says:
hey...no disrespect by the way i'm gonna phrase this but.......u ogt me angry....coz i read the ingredients and i prepped everything already...l but when i scroll down...-.-i need milk....u did not include milk in the ingredients list....damn. i wanna eat pancakes!!
Nov 9, 2009. 1:28 AMmastermakoko says:
does baking powder has the same use as yeast?
Oct 3, 2009. 5:58 PMjpplayball says:
cool
Aug 26, 2009. 7:33 PMkarossii says:
watching for the bubbles in the top is an adequate method of knowing when to flip the pancakes, but can lead to underdone or overdone pancakes if your cooking surface (griddle/pan) is not the right temperature. The proper method is to watch the edges of the pancakes; when they solidify (get cooked) and pull away from the cooking surface slightly, they are ready. If you like your pancakes darker, wait until the done-ness creeps all the way up the side and the entire edge of the pancake, top to bottom, is firm.
Aug 26, 2009. 10:55 PMkarossii says:
Not at all!

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