Every Sunday, my dad used to make a yummy homemade breakfast for all of us, and we’d gather in the kitchen for some nice family time. It was awesome, and man… that guy can make some breakfast! Sometimes it was waffles or french toast, but probably the most frequent (and my favorite) was chocolate chip pancakes (with lil’ smokies breakfast sausages…mmm). This isn’t his recipe, but it’s durned good.
First, dump 3 cups of flour into a bowl.
And add 6 Tablespoons of sugar.
Then throw in 1/4 teaspoon of salt and 2 Tablespoons of baking powder.
Mix mix mix.
In a measuring cup, mix 1 cup of milk and 1/3 cup canola oil (or other veggie oil). Beat in 3 eggs, then combine with the dry ingredients.
You can pour slowly and dramatically if you want.
Stir it up and decide if it’s battery enough (haha battery) for you. It wasn’t.
Add milk until it’s the right texture for you. Some people like thicker pancakes and other people like thinner ones, but this is a pretty good middle…
Once your pan is heated over medium heat, spoon in some pancakes.
And when they get nice and puffy and have bubbles rising to the top like this…
It’s time to flip them!
I made a couple sets of plain ones for hubs, who likes to drizzle syrup on his.
Well… is this still called drizzling?
Eh, I think it’s more like glopping. He likes to glop the syrup on his!
I don’t like anything on mine, unless it’s that spray whipped cream from a can like my dad used to do for us sometimes. But I like mine with CHOCOLATE CHIPS IN THEM.
I’ve found that if I mix the chips into the batter, they all sink to the bottom, and I get weird varying amounts of chips in each pancake, so I just sprinkle them on after spooning the batter into the pan.
Help yourself!
Why thank you. I think I will!
The perfect breakfast for a lazy weekend morning.
Here’s the recipe, in case you don’t want to print out the whole thing.
Puffy pancakes
Ingredients:
- 3 cups flour
- 6 Tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 2 Tablespoons baking powder
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1+ cup milk
Mix the dry ingredients. Mix the wet ingredients. Combine wet and dry ingredients. Add milk if needed. Cook in a pan over medium heat (or on a griddle if you’re fancy like that). Enjoy!
Hi! I'm Emily. I'm a Navy wife and brand new stay at home mom. I cook simple, delicious, grain-free recipes, do crafts, decorate on a budget, and keep a happy home. I breastfeed, babywear, cloth diaper, and co-sleep, but I'm not a hippie.
I found this recipe 3 years ago, and I will get stop saying THANKS! it´s the best pancake recipe ever!
sorry my keyboard mistake, I meant tha I will never stop saying THANKS, thanks one more time!
thats awesome….am definately trying it out tomorrow….Thanks alot.
We usually make thin, pathetic British pancakes so i though we should try something different. This recipe is brilliant. Using it from now on
this recipe is absolutely repugnant. the pancakes are way too thick and they do not cook all the way through. stay away!
this recipe is absolutely repugnant. the pancakes are way too thick and they do not cook all the way through.
thank you sooooooooooo much for showing me the recipe if it wasn’t you i will not even know to to bake anything tank u sooo much
Hi, I love this recipe- the first time I made it it turned out perfectly- but I had lots left over.. I’ve tried two times since then to reduce the measurements but it’s just turned out differently.. can you help me? thanks
thanks for the recipe ! I love the chocolate chips in them
Are the choclate chips supposed to be semi sweet ot unsweetened?
Thanks for the recipe! I needed to add about 3/4 to 1 cup more of milk than the recipe called for (just eyeballed it), to make the batter less doughy and more battery. I also added a tsp. Vanilla to the wet ingredients. These pancakes turned out fluffy and perfect. Thanks again!
Thank you for the most unbelievable pancake reciepe. Truly the best of the best. What a good idea to sprinkle the chocolat chip on top while cooking. I just had to add another 1/2 cup of milk to the batter. I could not thank you enough. Your reciepe was a gift to me, thank you again, Jackie
Oh my gosh! I’ve just discovered your blog, I love the recipe and the nostalgia that goes with it. I’ll be going back to past blogs and come forward to the present time to see what other wonderful recipes you’ve posted. Thank you for such a happy site, I look forward to reading more of what you’ve written.
Patty
For JIM (the comment above mine) a batch with 3 cups of flour should feed two adults and two children just fine, unless somebody’s really hungry.
How many servings does it make?