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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Delicious pancakes! The only change I made was cutting the sugar by half.
I’d like to try this recipe. How long can you store the pancake mix?
Hi May Loo, it should last for a couple months when stored in an airtight container.
I need to make pancakes pleas hurry.
Hey Taty! The full recipe is towards the bottom of the post, or you can find it by using the jump to recipe button at the top! Enjoy your pancakes!
Thanks for the simple and delicious recipe! The pancakes came out light and fluffy! I’ll never need to buy store-bought pancake mix ever again.
Hi I love this Place have 4 children and this is a life saver! Just wanted to know what is the serving size for the 152 calorie count? I guessed it was 2 pancakes but I just like to be sure
Hi Linda, that will depend on the size of your pancakes but for us that was per pancake :)
this pancake mix rules
they always come out nice and fluffy
Tried this today and am so thankful for this find. I used buttermilk (1Tbls of white vinegar plus whole milk to make a full cup) and 1 tsp if pure vanilla. This batter was light and fluffy…so lovely. I can see it would hold up to adding blueberries, chocolate chips, or thinly slice bananas as well since the pancake did not fall apart when I dipped it in syrup. I also live the easy economical benefit of knowing what I am feeding my family. Thanks so much for sharing.
So happy you enjoyed these pancakes Elizabeth!
I do the same! I’m going to try the buttermilk recipe with the addition of the pure vanilla to it. Thanks for the suggestion!
Great
Dry mix pancake recipe
Where does it say how much milk (buttermilk ) I can use?
how much dry mix do I need for 8 pancakes?
How many eggs do I need?
How much oil do I need?
All of the information is included in the recipe. You can use the jump to recipe button at the top of the page and it will take you right there.
Hello Holly… Maybe I just don’t know what the heck I’m doing. Judging by all of the great comments I guess it’s just me. But when I put your mix together it was so thick that there’s no way it would’ve made a pancake so I added a whole bunch more milk in order for it to pour into the pan they cooked up beautifully and perfectly but tasted like flour.. Nobody in the family would eat more than two or three bites of a pancake.
Hi Gary, the recipe is for a dry pancake mix…then you take only one cup (recipe makes 4 cups of mix) of pancake mix and combine it with the milk and eggs to make pancakes. I hope that helps!
These pancakes are delicious and everyone that I’ve made them for raves about how good they are! Thank you for the recipe!
The only reason I didn’t give 5 stars is because there is no way that 1 cup of
Milk is enough for this recipe. It was way to thick to even think about pouring , I actually had to add like 3 cups of milk. I also added vanilla to mine . But as far as the pancake itself wow were they ever so fluffy!! My bf loved them, he doesn’t want me to buy pancake mix anymore he wants me to
Fix it homemade from this recipe!!
Hi Teresa, the one cup of milk is for only 1 cup of the pancake mix. The rest is intended to be stored in the pantry. But I am so happy you guys loved them!
The recipe is to store most of the mix for later so you have a quick breakfast next time, it wasn’t intended that you use 1 cup of milk for all the dry ingredients.
Thanks for the easy recipe! Will definitely use again in the future. I’m not the best in the kitchen so I mixed up a tsp for a TSBP since I’m used to reading ingredients being listed in descending order by weight–my bad! Might I suggest a minor change for folks that make silly mistakes like me:
Ingredients
Dry Pancake Mix
4 cups all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons baking powder
** 3 tablespoons sugar (moved this so TBSP are together, followed by tsp) **
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
It was very salty.
You can reduce the salt to your preference, Cooper. :)
How long will the mix last in an airtight container?
Hi Erica, it should last for a couple months when stored in an airtight container.
Thank you for the recipe.
This is a great mix. Makes beautiful fluffy pancakes. My family just loves them.
its good
I made amazing pancakes with this recipe. Thank you!
Please i need your Recipe for Pancake using the bananas with measurements. Thank you very much.
This banana pancake recipe makes the most delicious banana pancakes Ligaya!
what temp should I pre-heat my pan on?
Hi Joe, we preheat our pan over medium-high heat.
When looking to cook a familiar recipe made from scratch ingredients, Holly provides a sweet approach. However my menu items were lacking versus the author’s suggestions. Fortunately I made the best attempt and found the recipe created Excellent pancake. The house dog and cat both agreed. Thanks Holly!