Fluffy Pancakes

Pancakes are one of my absolute favorite breakfast foods, and I love it when they're tall and fluffy. But I've always had trouble getting them just right. We've tried several different recipes that have been pretty good, but this one had 5 stars and almost 4,000 reviews, so I figured it must be pretty good. It definitely lived up to it's name of "Fluffy Pancakes." They didn't take a lot of work, but I think in the future I'm going to try buttermilk instead of the soured milk, just to see if there's any difference in taste. If you have a smaller family, you can cut this recipe in half, but this barely fed three boys and I even without my husband home.

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Fluffy Pancakes 

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1-1/2 cups milk

4 tablespoons white vinegar

2 cups all-purpose flour

4 tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs
4 tablespoons butter, melted

Combine milk with vinegar in a medium bowl and set aside for 5 minutes to "sour".

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl.

Whisk eggs and butter into "soured" milk.

Pour the flour mixture into the wet ingredients and whisk until lumps are gone.

Heat a large skillet over medium heat, and coat with cooking spray.

Pour 1/4 cupfuls of batter onto the skillet, and cook until bubbles appear on the surface.

Flip with a spatula, and cook until browned on the other side.

Makes 16 pancakes.

Dutch Babies (aka German Pancakes)

This is another recipe that's been sitting in my box, waiting to be made. Most people call these German pancakes, but I was looking at one recipe that had a review from a woman who was actually German, and she said true German pancakes would be heavy and fried in oil. These definitely are not, so I'm going with the more fun name of Dutch Babies. This is actually a mix of a couple different recipes, and it worked for us. I ended up cutting it in half since it was just the boys and I (and partially since I've become stingy with eggs since they got so expensive), but it was gone so quickly that I probably should have made the full batch. Sorry for the rushed picture. I had two boys fighting over who was going to smell the pancake.

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Dutch Babies

4 Tbsp. butter

6 eggs

1 cup flour

1 cup milk

1/2 cup sugar

Pinch of salt

Preheat oven to 400.

Place butter in 9 x 13 pan (or 2 round pans) and let melt in oven as it preheats. Do not let the butter brown.

Combine eggs, flour, milk, sugar and salt. Whisk until smooth.

Pour batter into pan and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until middle is set and edges are puffed up and brown.

Serve with syrup, fruit, whipped cream, or powdered sugar & lemon juice. (We did the latter because that's my favorite way to do crepes--you can skip the lemon juice if you want.)