Homemade Pancakes are pretty much the perfect weekend food. The only thing better than pancakes are homemade pancakes from a homemade pancake mix! All of the goodness of homemade pancakes… made faster!
Homemade Pancakes
If you’re anything like us, your weekend mornings are spent in pajamas with cups of coffee and mucho laziness… whipping up these pancakes is the perfect fit for those lazy mornings!
Homemade Pancakes are pretty much the perfect weekend food.
Simple and quick… and perfectly fluffy. Stacked tall with cold butter and real maple syrup (and crispy bacon). It’s almost the only reason to get out of bed on a Saturday!
How to Make Pancake Mix for Homemade Pancakes
Homemade Pancakes don’t take many ingredients. You’ll simply take some dry ingredients and combine them with butter, eggs and milk… voila, pancakes.
Making a homemade pancake mix just means keeping the right ratios of dry ingredients ready to go. You’ll simply scoop some mix, add some wet ingredients and you’re on your way to fluffy pancake perfection in minutes.
Buying and preparing all of your own foods is the single easiest way to ensure that you know exactly what your family is eating. It is also a great way to save money on groceries! Most pre-made baking mixes are typically simply mixtures of very simple, common dry baking ingredients. You can make your own cake, bread and other mixes and get delicious and cheap baked goods but, today, let’s discuss pancake mixes. This homemade pancake mix is easy to whip up and is a great way to save on the budget.
What Makes Pancakes Fluffy?
To make sure your homemade pancakes are perfectly fluffy here are a few of my fave tips:
- Use fresh ingredients – Believe it or not, old ingredients can make your pancakes fall flat (especially baking powder).
- Do not overmix – A few lumps are not only ok, they’re required!
- Grease your pan with oil – You’ll want a well-greased pan and butter can burn.
- Flip when bubbles pop – as soon as the bubbles pop, you ‘ll want to flip your pancakes.
Get ready to make healthier, more budget-friendly pancakes that your kids and the whole family will love! The best part is that once you have this homemade pancake mix in the cupboard, these are on the table in just a few minutes! Breakfast for dinner anyone?
Ta da! Totally homemade, delicious and healthy pancakes! You will save money and feel really good about what you are feeding your family. The more you control what goes into your foods, the healthier and happier you (and your wallet) will be.
Items you’ll need for this recipe
* Flour * Baking Powder * Storage Canister *
Ingredients
Dry Pancake Mix
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
To Make Pancakes
- 1 cup pancake mix as shown above
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk or as needed
- 1 tablespoon melted unsalted butter or oil
Instructions
Dry Pancake Mix
- Combine all ingredients. (You can easily double or triple this part)
- Store tightly sealed in a cool dry place.
To Make Pancakes
- Preheat & lightly grease a griddle or pan over medium to high heat.
- Combine 1 cup of pancake mix with egg, ½ cup milk & butter or oil. Add additional milk as needed, you may need up to 1 cup.
- Pour ⅓ cup batter and cook until bubbles on the surface of the pancakes have popped (about 3-4 minutes). Flip and cook until the underside is light golden (another 1 – 2 minutes).
Notes
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Breakfast
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Love this recipe, used it to make my nieces and nephew breakfast the other day and they loved it.. I always felt unsure about making pancakes because I rarely make them but this recipe was easy to follow. I even did a substitution with coconut and almond flour for a gluten free version for my brother and they turned out great! Thank you Holly!
Thank you for sharing your GF exchanges, so glad you enjoyed them!
I made them for my son this morning and they were good but he said they taste like too much baking soda. Can you help with this ?
Hi Tara, You could reduce the baking soda in this recipe but it may cause the pancakes to not be as fluffy.
I found the that using 3/4 cup of milk instead of 1 cup makes the consistency on point and a drop of vanilla makes them super yummy! Best pancakes I’ve ever made in my life doing it that way.
Trying these for the first time… ( breakfast for dinner) the last pancake recipe I tried ended up in the trash so we’ll see how this one ends up. I can’t wait.
We tried to use almond milk and glutten free flour but this recipe asked for way to much flour and we ended up only using half as much. All other recipes online say us half as much, and it turned into dough with just 2 cups of flour. I think the recipe is off.
Hi Melissa, the four cups of flour is to make the pancake mixture to store in your pantry. Once you have the pancake mixture you only want to combine 1 cup of it with the milk, egg, and butter mentioned. Hope that helps.
Can I use this recipe to make waffles also?
For sure! Let us know how they turn out BSerio!
Sounds delicious
Thanks Louise!
Hi is baking soda nicer not baking powder ? I’m in South Africa so bicarbonate is known here as baking soda.await your reply .Kind regards .
Hi Salma, you are correct bicarbonate is another name for baking soda! However, baking soda and powder are quite different. Hope that helps!
Best recipe ever!!!
I substituted the sugar for 1/2 teaspoon of 100% stevia powder.
The level of baking soda/powder is very high so can make them taste a little bitter, but I can live with that knowing that it could possibly be due to the substitution above. I’ll test it out when I make the next batch.
1 cup of mix for me made 4 perfectly sized pancakes. This is great for portion control for a breakfast food, if you cook for a couple this gives 2 each which is a perfect portion.
I have saved this recipe for future.
Thanks so much!!
Could you use buttermilk instead of regular milk?
That sounds like a delicious idea Jennifer!
I’ve not made homemade pancake mix for years and years. I mixed up the first batch with pleasant anticipation. I had wondered about the large amount of baking powder (3 T) and rightfully so. The pancake has a bitter taste. I was able to neutralize it with yogurt. The web lists several acidic options you will have in your home. Your usual griddle temperature will need to be lowered.
Thanks for the tips JK, glad you were able to enjoy them.
How would you suggest I alter this just a bit so i have waffle mix instead? Maybe add some oil ? Any thoughts?
I think that should work Heather. Let us know how they turn out!
This is a great, basic mix for pancakes. I keep a 16 cup supply in a plastic, snap-top container in my pantry and when it is depleted, I fill it up again! Sometimes I use 1/2 C this mix and 1/2 C multigrain pancake mix for 5-6 pancakes for a change of texture; sometimes I add vanilla or almond or orange extract; sometimes I mix in blueberries or lay slices of banana on top of each cooking pancake before I flip them. Sometimes I add crumbled bacon or shredded carrots! Variety IS the spice of life – experiment!
A TIP to avoid runny batter, as some reviewers have experienced: Look carefully at your liquid measuring cup. Some of them are really larger than 1 cup and should not be filled to the top of the container, There is a line painted on the glass or plastic that is the 1 cup line. Fill only to that line, even if there is room for more liquid in the measuring container. Also, do not use any other kind of measuring container – like a coffee cup – unless you know that it holds exactly 1 cup.
Thanks for the suggestions Jo, and the tip!
Hi Holly! I was wondering how many pancakes can you make with one cup of the pancake mix???
Hi Helena, one cup of dry mix makes about 5 pancakes.
OK, thanks!
they were so good
Thank you Mackenzie!
I did not have enough pancake mix (that I bought at the store) to make pancakes today so I decided to see if there was an easy way to make pancakes. I found your recipe online. Now let me say I am not one of those that makes food from scratch I do not spend much time in the kitchen so I decided to try your recipe I wasn’t expecting anything great just enough to satisfy my hunger. But those were the best pancakes I have had since my grandma last made them. I want you to know that I will be making these kind of pancakes for my grandkids because they were so delicious and fluffy.
Thank you so much Judy! I am thrilled that you enjoyed the pancakes and I hope your grandkids do too!
The pancakes turned out pretty good, but the batter was super thin and we had to add more sugar. In my opinion there was way to much baking powder. Some of the pancakes tasted like pure baking powder. Next time I would probably add vanilla extract and more sugar. Maybe a little less milk so they weren’t so thin.
Hmm, I have never had that happen with this batter Alexa. But I would try add a little less milk or a little more pancake mix to help thicken it up!
These turned out wonderful! Thank you very much for the recepie.
May I ask if the Nutrition Information of 152kcal is for one portion (5 pancakes) or per 100g?
So glad you liked them Yasmin. Based on the recipe making 20 pancakes, that would be per pancake. Hope that helps!
I wish I could do something in between 4 and 5 stars, but there isn’t so… 4 it is. This is mostly for the batter tasting kind of flat before I customized it a little. More on that below.
While I’m not sure if I’d call this the perfect pancake mix, it’s a pretty good alternative to store-bought. I didn’t have baking powder, but these came out pretty damn fluffy! Quick and easy to put together and there’s lots of room for add-ins. My suggestion for anyone experiencing runny batter is try adding the milk gradually. And FYI… if you omit baking powder, they don’t bubble like a normal pancake. When I saw the sides were set, that’s when I flipped them. On med/high heat, they came out golden brown w/ a delicious crispy edge. They were all pretty uniform and I was super pleased that these didn’t fall apart when topped w/ butter/syrup. I’d like to point out I don’t drown my pancakes either :P
As I said above, after tasting a little of the batter it seemed like something was missing. I added some cinnamon to the mix and then for the actual batter I tossed in some vanilla, pumpkin pie spice, and a little swirl of syrup.
All in all, these came out much better than I thought they would. However, I’m interested to see how much better they come out when I actually have the baking powder :)
As someone who doesn’t cook or bake much I wanted to point out how poorly the ingredients portion of the receipe was laid out. The receipe was for 4 cups of mix, which is fine, but then the wet ingredients were laid out as a per cup of mix basis. That’s very unintuitive and I only noticed because I put the wet ingredients in (the way I read it at first) and knew it wasn’t wet enough. If you’re going to lay out the dry ingredients as four cups of materials do the same for the rest of it. By the way I was making these for my wife’s mother’s day breakfast, turned out great but I had to do some math gymnastics to fix it since I was halving the dry ingredient portion. (Good thing I’m an engineer so math is easy)
Sorry you found it confusing. This is for a dry mix as you would keep a box of pancake mix in the pantry. The smaller dry portions allow for readers to make as few or as any as they need.
I hope your family enjoyed them in the end and wishing your wife a lovely Mother’s Day
I understand the recipe perfectly. Seems as though many people are making this with a missing ingredient or they aren’t able to understand the basic recipe because they rarely follow a recipe.
My kids love these! I add vanilla but I pretty much overdo vanilla in everything. This has been my go to recipe for some time now. I have noticed lumpier makes fluffier pancakes where if whipped smooth they are flat and lifeless.
Yum, vanilla would be great in these. So glad your family loved them!