Homemade Pancake Mix: the Quick and Easy Recipe to Make Classic Pancakes

The pancake mix is an easy preparation, also excellent as a homemade gift idea. It is a mix in a jar that is very simple to package, capable of surprising your closest friends, who will only have to incorporate the liquid ingredients, reported together with the instructions on a practical label: in a few minutes, they will obtain delicious pancakes, perfect for breakfast for adults and children.

To make it, just distribute the flour in layers, mixed with a pinch of salt, sugar, vanilla and baking powder inside a clean and sterilized glass jar, equipped with an airtight seal. All you have to do is attach a note with the procedure and cooking, a colored ribbon for garnishing and you're done.

The pancake mix, ready to use like the classic industrial preparations, but much more genuine and healthy, is ideal for those who have little time to spend in the kitchen or do not have a food scale: simply pour it into a bowl, add the eggs, a glass of milk at room temperature and 2 tablespoons of seed oil, to obtain a smooth and velvety mixture, to be cooked on a very hot non-stick pan buttered with a knob of butter.

You can customize the preparation according to your personal tastes, replacing the 00 flour with wholemeal flour or, for a gluten-free version, with rice flour; furthermore, you can opt for brown sugar and, for an even tastier result, add some dark chocolate chips to the powders.

Find out how to prepare the pancake mix by following the step-by-step procedure and advice.

How to Prepare Pancake Mix

Place the flour, mixed with a pinch of salt, on the bottom of a glass jar with an airtight seal.

Add the granulated sugar.

Perfume with vanillin or the seeds of a powdered vanilla bean.

Complete with baking powder.

Compact the powders with the back of a spoon, so as to create homogeneous layers.

Close the jar: your pancake mix is ready.

How to Make Pancakes With Pancake Mix

To prepare excellent pancakes in just a few minutes, just mix two eggs, a glass of milk and two tablespoons of sunflower seed oil, then incorporate all the pancake mix, and mix well with a whisk, until a smooth and homogeneous mixture is obtained.

Heat a pan with a knob of butter on the heat, then pour in a ladle of the mixture and cook the pancakes for 3-4 minutes per side.

Use immediately, give as a gift or store the pancake mix.

Advice

You can flavor the pancake mix according to your personal tastes: in addition to or instead of vanilla, for example, you can use a pinch of cinnamon or cardamom, or, for a chocolate variant, add 30 grams of bitter cocoa.

If you want to use the mix to make delicious vegan pancakes, you can simply replace the milk with a vegetable drink of your choice (almond, oat or soy, no added sugar) and omit the eggs.

The pancake mix can be stored at room temperature, tightly closed in an airtight glass jar, for a maximum of 1 month.