How to Properly Store Leftover Homemade Pancakes (Raw and Cooked)

Few ingredients, delicious result: to prepare pancakes you only need flour, eggs, sugar, milk and yeast and you will get the most famous pancakes in the world, a true symbol of the American breakfast now loved all over the world.

Traditionally they are drizzled with maple syrup, but the beauty of this delicious recipe is that you can customize them however you like: you can season them with cream, syrups of every flavor and creams of every type, but you can also add fruit or chocolate directly to the dough to make them even more special.

Even if preparing pancakes takes a few minutes, sometimes, for convenience or lack of time, you would like to have them ready and avoid the preparation process. You can do it, just follow our advice to learn how to properly store pancakes for a more or less long time, so as to always have them available with intact taste, aroma and consistency.

1. How to Store Cooked Pancakes

If you have cooked too many pancakes and you have not cooked them all, the easiest and most convenient way to store them is to put them in the refrigerator. This method is also good if you have cooked the pancakes the night before for convenience but you intend to eat them for breakfast the following morning. In all these cases, you must place the completely cooled pancakes in an airtight container and then put them in the refrigerator; remember that the recipe is based on easily perishable ingredients, so you can store them for up to three days. When you want to eat the pancakes, you will only have to take them out of the refrigerator and heat them in a pan, in the toaster, in the oven or in the microwave.

2. You Can Also Freeze the Pancakes

If you don't want to eat the cooked pancakes soon, the best option to preserve them is to put them in the freezer: pancakes can be safely frozen, in fact it is an excellent system to have them available for a long time because in this way they will remain intact for about two months. For ideal preservation, wait until the pancakes are cold and place them in a food bag, taking care to separate them with squares of baking paper: in this way they will not stick together and you will be able to defrost the exact quantity you need.

How to Properly Defrost Pancakes

Speaking of defrosting: enjoying your pancakes is really easy and takes little time because, unlike other foods, they do not require special care and you do not have to let them defrost before cooking them. You can cook your pancakes directly frozen and, to do so, you have several options: you can heat them in a pan leaving them to heat for a couple of minutes on each side, you can put them in the toaster as you would with toast, you can heat them in the oven for about ten minutes. If you have a microwave oven available, take advantage of it because this is the best method, able to leave your pancakes soft and fluffy as if they had just been prepared.

Can You Store Pancake Batter?

Storing cooked pancakes is very simple and also quite convenient, but sometimes you want to have sweet pancakes cooked on the spot. You will be pleased to discover that you can also store the batter, but for a limited period of time: pancakes are based on ingredients that spoil quickly, especially if left raw. The maximum period for storing the preparation is about 10-12 hours, as long as the mixture is kept in the fridge and covered with a sheet of cling film; remember, in this case, not to add the yeast immediately but to add it just before cooking the pancakes so that it does not disperse.