Princess Leah (PL) asked to make some pink strawberry pancakes the other day for breakfast, and I thought this might be a great opportunity for me to beef up our freezer pancake stock (more on this later).
Originally, I thought about doing raspberry flavored pancakes, but that didn't work out. Why, you ask? Because here in East Texas, they have many kinds of extract - mint, rum, banana, orange, butter (seriously?)...but NO raspberry. Readers, send me raspberry extract, stat.
I could have used fresh or frozen fruit, but since these would be frozen later, fresh berries don't always work out during reheating. (HINT: you use a toaster, so YIKES).
Soooo...I used....Strawberry Nesquik! Go ahead and laugh, but it did give the pancakes a very slight strawberry taste that wasn't too sweet at all!
Ingredients
- 2 cups Original Bisquick mix
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup Strawberry Nesquik
- pink gel food coloring
I usually double this recipe, then wrap each pancake individually and freeze flat. Store them in freezer bags, and when PL wants a pancake, I just unwrap, pop in the toaster on the "freezer" setting, and she's all set! Cheaper than buying frozen pancakes, folks.
Mix the first 4 ingredients together, and you will see a pink color start to form, like this:
But PL states this simply isn't pink enough...so I add a small amount of pink gel food coloring, and get this:
Much better! Use a 1/4 cup measure to ladle out circles in your skillet or pan:
And cook normally - a minute or two on each side should do it. Set the pancakes out on paper towels to cool for freezing:
Or, cut into them right away to admire the beauty of the color pink:
Don't let the pink fool you - these are pretty versatile. Like 'em plain? Leave out the Nesquik and color! Like 'em with fresh fruit? Put some in! Like 'em blue? Purple? Orange? Swap out colors and flavors!!
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