Strawberry Lemonade Pancakes

 So Summer officially began the other day and we needed an appropriate pancake breakfast. Who's up for some strawberry lemonade pancakes?
Ingredients: see above ;)
2cp flour
4tsp baking powder
handful of uncooked whole oats (for fiber)
1cp lemonade drink mix
1/2cp-1cp of chopped strawberries
2 eggs
3tsp vanilla extract
1&3/4 cp milk

  Get the griddle fired up to 350degrees (or heat up the frying pan). Mix the dry ingredients in mixing bowl then add in all the rest and stir until all combined.

 Pour that lemony goodness out (about 1/4 cp per pancake or whatever looks good) and wait for some bubbles before flipping to cook the other side.

These were so good we didn't put syrup on them. You could make an icing with milk and confectioners sugar or use a cream cheese topping, though.. Just a thought! 
Happy Summer everyone!
 

Fall Campfires and S'mores Pancakes!

Fall has arrived early this year (so sad, I miss summer!) and what would be more awesome for breakfast than S'mores Pancakes?!?
Plus, I just got back from Hershey, PA. so we've got chocolate on the brain..

Ingredients:
 1 cp flour
2tsp baking powder
2TBS cocoa powder
2TBS brown sugar
3/4cp milk
1 egg
for topping: 1cp marshmallow fluff +2TBS boiling water- stir until combined.

Whisk the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Beat the wet ingredients together in a smaller bowl then add to the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
 
Spoon a quarter cup of batter onto a skillet (or griddle, if you have one) on medium heat that has been coated with nonstick cooking spray/butter (mine is no stick, YAY!). Flip after 3-4 minutes, just as you notice bubbles forming around the edges of each pancake, and cook 2 minutes more.

Drizzle the sauce over the top. If you're really wanting chocolate, stick a piece of chocolate on top of the pancake before the marshmallow sauce...just sayin'
 

Delicious 3 Ingredient Breakfast Pinwheels

You're gonna want to make these for breakfast ASAP! They're so good the man was enthusiastically asking for seconds.
How many ingredients, you ask? Only 3, yep, you heard me right, 3 ingredients!

1 roll of breakfast sausage
1 (8oz) package cream cheese, soft
1 tube crescent dough

Brown the sausage in a frying pan and drain off the excess grease.
Combine sausage with cream cheese in a large bowl.

Open crescent dough and lay out in a rectangle( do not separate the sections). Roll out a little and seal up the sections seams so it is one big rectangle of dough.

Spread the sausage mixture on the dough and roll up length wise.
Stick the roll in the freezer to firm up for a bit (15-20min?) before slicing across the roll to make lots of pinwheels.
Bake at 350 F for 15 min.
Done!

Eat them plain or dip them in syrup. They are good either way!

Incredible Stuffed Blueberry French Toast

You won't believe how easy it is to make this fancy breakfast piece!
First, make french toast.
Most of you know how to do that already but for the beginners:
Beat 2 eggs with a dash of cinnamon until it looks like the picture above.

Dip bread slices (2 eggs is just enough for 4 slices) in the egg mixture. Be sure the egg covers both sides.

Then, coat a frying pan with spray and cook both sides of the bread (until they don't look soggy anymore).

See my new PINK frying pan up there??
We went to Virginia for a weekend and the man insisted on buying it for me to keep at his place- as long as I ALWAYS put it away in the far back corner of the cupboard! lol.

Kitty break!

ok, so here's what your french toast should look like. I made four slices.

Mike forgot to stop and get cream cheese so I had to send him out for it while I was making the toast...

...and he came back with these! and cream cheese.

So now we just need to make the filling.

Wash your blueberries!
Warm up the cream cheese (half a block/4oz) in the microwave. 30 seconds was perfect for mine.

Stir in about 1/4cp confectioner's sugar (more or less depending how sweet you want it) and cinnamon to taste.

Put a bunch of berries on one slice of french toast.

Then spread the cream cheese mixture on the other slice and put them together. mmmmm!

oh! I almost forgot, I sprinkled more of the sugar on top

We took our dads to a car show on the lake for Father's Day where we saw this contraption!

It's a Ranger pickup with among other things, a fish tank in the trunk!!
There are real freakin fish in there!!!!
What?!?!?!

and a dragonfly landed on my arm and hung out there while I walked! Good luck for me, I hope!

A Love-ly Breakfast

This is a romantic twist on an old stand by. You remember the classic egg inside the bread thing, right?

Well, this time the hole is heart shaped <3

In case you've never done this before, all you do is:
cut out a hole in the middle of a slice of bread,
melt butter in a frying pan,
place bread in pan,
crack egg into hole
and fry it up!

I even fry the holes! MMMM, fried bread is so yummy!

You can also sprinkle salt and pepper over the egg so it gets cooked in.

A sweet breakfast for your Honey(s).

The Pancake Experiment: Blueberry Pie Pancakes!!

The Pancake Experiment continues with blueberry pie pancakes!
(This post could also be called "Ice cream for Breakfast")

Step 1: Wash off them berries!!
I don't want you getting sick from making something I posted- that would make me feel really bad..

Step 2: gather all these ingredients and combine them in a large bowl :
1cp blueberries
1cp flour
4TBS rolled oats(the old fashioned kind)
1tsp ground cinnamon
1tsp baking powder
1Tbs sugar
2/3cp milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1Tbs oil

Step3: Spray pan with no stick spray and allow pan to heat up before pouring batter onto it.

When you see bubbles form in the batter, it's time to flip them over.

oh MY god, they look so good!

They actually exploded in blueberry-ness when I cut into them with my fork!

Ice Cream goes best with blueberry pie so..

Mike said these just might be his favorite of all the pancakes I've made him so far!



Here he is helping me with dinner.
So sweet. While I was making breakfast, he quietly got out the veggies we needed chopped up for dinner and cut them all up. I hardly had anything left to do when he got done!



I later successfully made biscuits, which is exciting because I (used to rolling out cookies and pie crusts) always roll them out too thin ...and then they don't rise and get poofy ...and we end up with cracker-like biscuits.

But this time I restrained myself AND LOOK!!

Beautiful, poofy biscuits!

The biscuits were so good & we were on a blueberry and ice cream kick so we made blueberry cobbler sundaes complete with cinnamon on top.

Banana Bread Pancakes?!?!

Yes, you heard me right BANANA BREAD Pancakes!! They are so good. I made them for my boyfriend this weekend and he loved them.

Here's the link to the recipe: http://www.howsweeteats.com/2011/06/whole-wheat-brown-sugar-banana-bread-pancakes/

We didn't bother with making the glaze, though. Butter melted over the top and homemade whipped cream did the trick for us. MmmmMMmmmm. Even just with the melted butter on top, they were amazing.