I can’t believe I haven’t ever shared our hot cake recipe. It makes the best pancakes! You can use either white flour or whole wheat flour. If you use wheat flour make sure to substitute brown sugar for the regular sugar.
On St. Patrick’s Day I decided to make rainbow pancakes for lunch, but I think it would be a fun treat for the first day of spring too!
Hot Cakes (Pancakes)
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
2 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
2 cups buttermilk
Combine all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. In a separate bowl combine the wet ingredients. Add the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture and stir just until combined. If you over-stir you get flat chewy pancakes instead of fluffy light pancakes.
Stop right here cook on a greased griddle for regular pancakes or proceed further with the instructions for rainbow pancakes.
Divide the hot cake batter evenly into seven small bowls. Using food coloring dye each bowl a different color: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Take one bowl of batter and spoon onto a hot greased griddle to cook pancakes. Spoon only a tablespoon or two of batter for each pancake.
I cooked all the red pancakes first, then the orange, then yellow, etc. As they finished cooking I made individual stacks of pancakes on the serving platter.
Serve pancakes with a huge dollop of freshly whipped cream on top (clouds) and a half of a peach next to the stack (gold).
YUM!
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Cute idea. I thought the peach was a giant fried egg! Did you hear about the leprechan that visited the Martins? Green toilet water!!
So cute. My kids would love this. Maybe I’ll get ready on time to make these tomorrow before church. We’d love them any day.
What a fun idea! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I love it!!! Thank you for the idea!
Very cool…I prefer to eat my pancakes stacked like that too!
Love your bright pancakes. Just a note about your food storage that I just looked at. It looks great; however, please do not store anything on the cement. It will leach into your food. We put a thin layer of wood or sheetrock on top of the cement and then put the buckets on the wood.
What a great idea!! I love the thought of serving the kids a rainbow.
fun and yummy
We had these for dinner tonight, the kids declared me the best mom ever! We used whole wheat flour (ground yesterday) and buttermilk powder w/ powdered milk from the food storage (have not been to grocery store this week) they were delicious! Thanks so much for a fun recipe ;o)
Great idea. I just linked a friend over here, as she’s planning a breakfast birthday bash for her nephew and his mates. They’ll love this. Along with a little do-it-yourself decorating station for the kids to decorate the colourful pancakes themselves..it’ll be fab.
Many thanks,
Tuesday