Did you know you can freeze pancakes?
Well, you can.
And, on my freeze-a-palooza, I tried it. It’s quite handy. Especially when there’s only 2 of us. Because we don’t need 12 pancakes. (We may want them, but we don’t need them.)
I just put the pancakes on freezer paper and then wrap one serving (2 or so) into a freezer bag.
And, here’s the recipe I used for pancakes. I’d never made pancakes before that weren’t from a box. So, this was new for me. But, they were yummy, simple and I’m also glad that they were whole-wheat.
Favorite Whole-Wheat Buttermilk Pancakes
Makes 12 pancakes
Adapted from Cooking Light, March 2010
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup whole-wheat flour
3 tbsp. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups low-fat buttermilk
1 tbsp. canola oil
1 large egg
1 large egg white
Cooking spray
Maple syrup
Butter
1. Lightly spoon flours into measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flours, sugar and the next 3 ingredients (through salt) in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk. Combine buttermilk, oil, egg and egg white. Stir with a whisk. Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until moist.
2. Heat a nonstick griddle or nonstick skillet over medium heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Spoon about 1/4 cup batter per pancake onto griddle. Turn pancakes over when tops are covered with bubbles and edges look cooked. Serve with butter and syrup.
Do you make homemade pancakes?
Yum! Great idea and good for you for showing such pancake restraint! It is always hard for me to freeze the leftovers and not eat them!
We love homemade pancakes but they have not been made a whole lot lately because of time…and we are lazy. This is perfect!
yes i love making homemade and afterwards i freeze all the leftovers in a large freezer-safe ziploc container. i put ’em in the toaster and have them the whole next week!!
Chocolate chip is my favorite but they never thaw/reheat correctly for me.
I do make homemade pancakes, and I do freeze them. 😉 They are just about as good (well, maybe not quite) as coming off the pan. We love pancakes here! 🙂
I just love that you’re posting all these freezer recipes! I’m going to be doing a “freeze-a-pa-looza” of my own before the baby comes and I’m adding a couple of your recipes to my repetoire 🙂
I LOVE LOVE buttermilk pancakes! yummm
I had no idea you could freeze pancakes – we always waste so much extra batter! I had a goal to freeze meals this month but I”m just going to pretend that I did it by reading your posts, sound good?
This sounds great! I don’t make pancakes either, for some reason they come out really bad, even store bought, but I could show this to the husby and see what he thinks..thanks!!
I don’t make homemade pancakes (I am a HORRIBLE pancake flipper), but Hubby does! We’ve tried lots of different recipes and flavors, but my favorite so far is pumpkin. It’s perfect in the fall!
Yes, I love making pancakes and always experiment with what to put in them. I personally like honey and banana, though the standard blueberry is always good too.
I usually end up freezing half of what we make (only 2 of us here, too) but then I eat one each morning for the rest of the week, so really I should just put them in the fridge.
Yay! I love homemade pancakes… They are so much more yummy!
This is awesome! I love pancakes and make them usually on the weekends for us! It would be great to not have to freeze them and not have to make them every time. Thanks!