Pancakes 🥞—soft, fluffy, and dangerously easy to keep eating. Here’s a classic, foolproof pancake recipe that never lets you down.
🥞 Fluffy Homemade Pancakes
Makes: ~8 pancakes
Time: ~20 minutes
Ingredients
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- 3½ tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 1¼ cups milk
- 1 egg
- 3 tbsp melted butter or oil
- 1 tsp vanilla (optional but great)
Instructions
1️⃣ Mix dry ingredients
In a bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
2️⃣ Mix wet ingredients
In another bowl, whisk milk, egg, melted butter, and vanilla.
3️⃣ Combine
Pour wet into dry and gently mix until just combined.
Lumps are good—overmixing = flat pancakes.
4️⃣ Cook
Heat lightly greased skillet over medium heat.
Pour ¼ cup batter per pancake.
Cook until bubbles form (about 2 min), flip, cook 1–2 min more.
5️⃣ Serve
Stack proudly. Add butter, syrup, fruit, or whatever joy looks like.
🔥 Pro Tips
- Let batter rest 5 minutes for extra fluff
- Don’t press pancakes while cooking
- If browning too fast, lower heat
✨ Variations
- Buttermilk: Replace milk with buttermilk
- Blueberry or chocolate chip: Fold in at the end
- Banana: Mash 1 ripe banana into batter
- Crispy edges: Use butter in the pan
If you want, I can give you IHOP-style pancakes, protein pancakes, or no-milk/no-egg versions.
