About four years ago, Jeff and I were sitting on the couch watching Food Network on TV because I had control of the remote and I love that channel, when a short order cook came on and began to make a smiley face on his pancakes with the batter.
“I could do that,” Jeff said.
I just looked at him sleepily, “Ok sure, honey” I said to make him be quiet so that I could watch the show.
“I totally could,” he said again.
I smiled at him and little did I know that from that moment on our pancakes would never be the same.
The next Saturday morning, Jeff began experimenting with how to make designs on our pancakes and would forever be known as Captain Awesome-Pancake.
This is not the first time, I have talked about how Jeff makes pancakes. There have been a few posts over the years. And back when I was a baby blogger, I even made a crude post on how to make them.
But I have always wanted to remake that post and do a video tutorial.
So that is just what I did.
Step 1: Get out pancake mix.
Step 2: Sift it. This is very important, you want a smooth batter for easy piping.
Step 3: Mix up the batter.
Step 4: Separate a small amount of batter into a smaller bowl. If you want multiple colors, use multiple small bowls.
Step 5: Add color to bowls. Any food coloring will do, a melted crayon will probably not work and taste badly.
Step 6: Put colored batter into small plastic bags.
Step 7: Seal bags and push down to the corner of the bag
Step 8: Gather bag and twist the bag, you are making a piping bag.
Step 9: Snip a small corner off of the end of the bag.
Step 10: Pipe out what ever designer your children would like. You are only limited by the imagination of children.
Step 11: Cover design with plain pancake batter
Step 12: Pipe another design, Jeff usually does the letter of the child’s name, on the non-cooking side while it cooks
Step 13: Flip that baby over and cook it on the other side.
Step 14: Transfer to a plate
Step 15: Eat and become your child’s favoritest pancake maker ever!
So there now you know how the cool kids make pancakes.
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Here is mine. Prepare pancke mix. Dump in some chocolate chips. Cook.
I MUST try these. Maybe my kids will love me again.
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THIS? is outrageously Awesome!!! I’m going to totally surprise my kids with the Valentine’s ones!
And my oldest would pay BIG allowance money for that Angry Bird pancake!
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so THAT’s how it’s done. Thank you!
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Oh, so cool! Thanks for the instructions!!
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so cool! I always make shapes (I have silicone thingies that do it for me!) and we have STOCK in sprinkles because my little cousins LOVE sprinkles in their pancakes! Just you WAIT until I make them cool things like this-they’ll never want to go home
{on second thought…maybe I won’t make them…ha!}
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I am glad you finally showed us how to do this! I’ve been waiting for it and now cannot wait to make these!! Thank you!!
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So THAT’S how it’s done!! How neat!! And Jeff is an excellent artist…my butterfly would not have turned out nearly as pretty.
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That is seriously so impressive! But I have to ask – what is the bottom right corner pancakes suppose to be?
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Jen Reply:
January 12th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Those are liver and gallbladder pancakes. Jeff’s mom was diagnosed with cancer in that area and when she had surgery to remove the tumor, he made those with the kids to explain her cancer/surgery. Weird looking I know, but the sentiment is sweet.
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All these years we’ve been doing it wrong! My husband and I were pretty impressed with ourselves for creating all sorts of shapes in our pancakes but THIS! This is AWESOME! Any guesses what I’m making for dinner tonight?!
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Jen Reply:
January 12th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Awesome! Have have making them.
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This is seriously brilliant. I love the Angry Birds pancake so much so that I may even want to try it. I have a feeling, however, that there is no way I could be as successful as your husband. What a great “how to”!
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Jen Reply:
January 12th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
He has have many, many years of practice. In the beginning he made simple shapes like hearts and faces. The ‘advanced’ stuff came later.
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I will make smiley face pancakes every so often like my mom used to. It drove my husband crazy – that genius could NOT figure our how I did it. I love the food coloring idea. Once this kid is born and eating pancakes…game on!
That Angry Bird pancake is A+ awesomesauce.
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he is an awesome pancake maker kaye—the road goes ever ever on
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Those are hands-down the most amazing pancakes I’ve ever seen. My kids would go nuts if I could make those Angry Bird pancakes!
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This is by far the best food tutorial I have ever read or seen on a web.
Hands down.
Totally pimping the SHIT out of this post. LOVE!!!!!!!!!!
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Um…those look amazing! But I can never wrangle up that much organization in the mornings. Maybe breakfast for dinner? Yes!
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This? Is pure amazing! Love!
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Amazing pancakes! You win at parenting. So awesome!
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Very cool! Love the video and I’m completely impressed with your husband’s ability to design a butterfly pancake so easily.
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Holy cow! That angry birds pancake is fantastic! I’m completely impressed with your husband. What fun Saturday mornings you have!!
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Okay you said you are finally joining pinterest and I am totally going to pin this! This is so so awesome! And great tutorial.
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I loved this! For some reason, the music and the fast-moving action made me giggle the entire time!
It was super helpful to actually see how it’s done (even though I remember you posting about this before). Jeff makes it look so easy! And you can tell he’s very serious about all this designer pancake-making business.
I can’t wait to make these for my kids! They’ll totally love them!
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How fun … and I thought my mom’s giraffe pancakes were cool!
Thanks for stopping by Snapshots!
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This amazing. Although I am running away from these pics very quickly. If my DS sees that angry birds one I am doomed!
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I like the previous commenter’s idea about making them for a pancake supper! Because, to be honest, most mornings pancakes themselves seem like too much effort. My poor children:p
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Awesome, awesome, awesome!! I will have to try this soon and get back to you on how it goes.
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I love the angry birds pancake!
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Thanks for sharing, you’re the one, now I know what I’m going to do on Sunday morning. The tot will love it.
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So fancy! My husband is the pancake maker at our house, but he doesn’t make any cute ones.
His mother told me a story once about catching him at 5 years old in the kitchen making pancakes for all his buddies in the neighborhood. I suppose after that many years of making them, he should have them down pat.
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