- This morning I woke up and thought
I'm going to treat my kids and myself
to some delicious pancakes.
You might hear some toddlers warbling in the background
but the results will be delicious.
Hey you're watching Preppy Kitchen
where I, John Kanell, teach you to make
delicious homemade dishes to share
with your family and friends.
Today we're making the fluffiest, most delicious,
buttermilk pancakes you've ever had in your life.
These are super easy.
Whip up in just a couple of minutes
and there is no reason not to treat yourself in the morning.
Let's get started.
First off we're adding 1 and a third cups, or 160g
of all-purpose flour into a large bowl with sifter,
you know, hovering around.
We're adding 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 tablespoons of sugar,
and a tablespoon of baking powder. Sift it up.
It's like we're making a little baby cake in a pan.
Whisk it up.
(Whisks)
Scale is done. This can get set aside.
And now for the wet ingredients.
I have 1 cup of buttermilk in my measuring cup
and if you don't have buttermilk on hand,
click up here for the blog post because I have all
the tips and tricks on substitutions.
We're adding 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.
And here's the deal.
These will be amazing with room temperature ingredients
but chances are you're just waking up in the morning,
things are cold, so we can pop this into the microwave
for about 45 seconds to warm up
and then we can mix in our egg, etc.
So, let's warm you up.
Kids are up which means I have to get rolling, okay.
One egg into my buttermilk which is nice and warm now.
I warm my milk for almost every recipe I make,
it makes a huge difference.
Whisk it up.
(Lively music)
Now, after that egg's incorporated, 4 tablespoons
of melted butter.
When you microwave that butter, make sure you're using
like 50% power in short bursts.
You don't want a butter explosion on your hands
first thing in the morning, there is some water
in that butter and it will steam up and go poof.
Not a good scene.
Stir it in.
(Whisks)
Before I even mix this in I'm gonna turn my cooktop on,
just have it on low to start heating up.
Okay. Now, pour the wet into the dry
and mix until just combined.
If you over mix you're gonna get like kind of a more bready,
dense consistency and if you activate that gluten
it can kinda like shrink back up.
We want fluffy, fluffy, delicious pancakes.
All mixed in, no pockets of flour,
and, we're reading to get rollin'.
Let's get onto this cooktop.
Just like with anything in life, a little butter
goes a long way for helping things out.
So you're gonna butter your pan.
This is actually a really nice non-stick pan.
I searched high and low and eventually found one.
But even still, it's best to have
a little bit of lubricant on there.
You can use some spray if you want to.
Soon as your butter's melted, you can add in
about a third of a cup, I'm making some smaller ones
for the kids, and then some big ones for the adults.
If you made pancakes before you know that the first one
is not the prettiest, but it's still gonna be tasty.
I'm still figuring out this cooktop so bear with me.
Normally you can tell a pancake is done because
bubbles start forming on the top, but this mixture is
so bubbly because of the buttermilk in the leavening agent
that you're not gonna get that indication.
There you go.
Not bad.
Look at that fluffiness.
(Whispers) Fluffy.
(Lively music)
And always lift up the corner to take a look.
And you can see, it's pretty good.
This is what happens with less butter.
That's more butter.
If you're someone who likes to toss things in the pan
like a big shot, don't do it for this recipe.
They're so big and fluffy
that they'll slide
and you're gonna, like, flatten them out.
So carefully flip them over,
don't get too much inertia involved there.
Back to a nice warm position,
you don't want to burn your pancakes.
Right, little drop of butter.
You know, any cook will tell you the secret
to a delicious meal is a drop of butter.
And if my mom is telling you that she has literally
dropped a big thing of butter in there.
(laughs)
All right, one more.
(Lively music)
You don't wanna walk away from these.
Just like oatmeal, no wait.
Just like whipped cream,
nothing happens, nothing happens, it's overdone.
So just be careful, don't let it get too far.
That's almost there. You're almost there.
Don't know if you can hear but the kids are actually
starting their breakfast.
This'll be like the dessert part of breakfast.
- [Kids] Oatmeal?
- They're having oatmeal now. (Laughs)
- [Kids] Oatmeal?
- The secret is to give kids a little bit of something good
- [Kids] Oatmeal?
- And a little bit of something indulgent.
Don't give the indulgent part first.
Made that mistake.
Okay, perfect.
Look at that fluffy pancake mixture!
That is the secret to a fluffy pancake.
Getting the right amount of a acid reacting with
a leavening agent, and fluffiness ensues.
Also, not over mixing it. Very important.
Time to start making some big pancakes for the adults.
So we can go up to like half a cup of batter, basically.
If you're making a bigger pancake, lower the heat
just a little, you don't want to, like,
burn the outside and have the inside be a bit undercooked.
You could also give it a little bit of a shake and shimmy
to spread it out if you need to.
You know I love a good cup of coffee, but a fluffy pancake
with real maple syrup and a little pat of butter on top
is my morning pick-me-up.
Whenever I, like, having a bad morning,
which happens,
(Laughs)
I just make some pancakes and everything starts off right.
If there are any other recipes you wanna see
for breakfast stuff, let me know.
Waffles, maybe? I am so excited for waffles.
Do you see how fluffy that is? That is a fluffy pancake.
Hello. Mmm.
I can't decide which I like better, the smell of coffee
or maple syrup in the morning. Do I have to choose?
(laughs)
Give it a nice pour.
That's nice.
These pancakes are actually perfectly sweet
with a good hit of salt so you don't need to guild the lily
but we're guilding the lily
and adding all of that maple syrup.
Before I take a bite if you like this recipe
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Okay. Ah. Look how fluffy that piece is. Ah.
(Chewing)
Hmm. Little bit of this,
little bit of that,
I'm a happy camper. And yes I will be sharing,
I only had a little piece of the top one.
The kids won't know the difference.
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