You’ll love this easy, light, fluffy, homemade pancake recipe. Made with ingredients you already have in your pantry – flour, sugar, baking powder, butter, milk and eggs – they’re delicious every time!
Perfect for a lazy weekend morning, these pancakes are best topped with REAL Maple Syrup!
Light, Fluffy and Buttery
Weekends are made for breakfasts. I just love Saturday mornings with a cup of coffee, cooking up something I know that my family will love, like the BEST HOMEMADE PANCAKES RECIPE EVER!
A family favorite is my batch of homemade pancakes made from scratch–no box mixes in our house!
Sure, it seems convenient to open a box of pancake mix from the store, but I promise it’s no more work to make them yourself with ingredients in your pantry.
Whether it’s my homemade waffle recipe , overnight breakfast casserole, or french toast casserole, we sure love our weekend breakfasts in our house!
These delicious, light, and fluffy homemade pancakes are easy to make and are packed full of flavor. Everything is mixed in one mixing bowl
– so you won’t have several dishes to clean up after.
I love that this pancake recipe makes extra to keep on hand for the week. Lay the extra pancakes on a baking sheet and pop them in the freezer. Pull them out and microwave as many as needed. It’s super easy for on-the-go mornings!
What Goes in Homemade Pancakes?
Making your own homemade pancakes allows you to control what goes in. There aren’t any ingredients you can’t pronounce or preservatives you don’t need.
Pancake Ingredients
- flour – the base of this recipe. I like regular flour but you could use wheat to give it a healthier twist.
- melted
butter – trust me on this one. Butter is what gives these pancakes amazing flavor. - baking powder – for fluffy stacks!
- milk – whole milk is best.
- eggs – large eggs.
- sugar – Just a tad is needed. You could leave it out – but I’m not sure how that would affect the taste.
butter – trust me on this one. Butter is what gives these pancakes amazing flavor.
baking powder – for fluffy stacks!
milk – whole milk is best. 
How to Make Fluffy Pancakes From Scratch
Step 1. Sift
Step 2. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients
Step 3. Lightly mix
Step 4. Cook
Step 5. Flip
Enjoy!
How to Get Fluffy Pancakes
The trick to make fluffy pancakes is not to overwork the batter. Pancake batter is supposed to have lumps in it. When you overwork the pancake batter, it causes gluten to form. The result is a dense, chewy pancake. Only mix the batter only until all visible streaks of dry ingredients disappear.
A Healthier Version
To make these pancakes a little healthier, use whole wheat flour
, or do half white flour and half whole wheat.
The Best Way To Top Pancakes
Also, top the pancakes with REAL butter and REAL maple syrup
. You can’t go wrong!
And, if you want to get really fancy, add in some fun simple ingredients for taking your pancakes to a whole NEW level!
ADD-INS FOR EASY HOMEMADE PANCAKES
- Chocolate Chips
- Sprinkles
- Strawberries
- Raspberry
- Peanut Butter Chips
- Bacon
- Lemon Zest
- Mashed banana
- Fresh Blueberries
- Pure Vanilla Extract
how many cups in a quart, pint or gallon OR what is the difference between dry and liquid measuring cups, this post can help!
TIPS FOR THIS FLUFFY PANCAKE RECIPE
- Do not over mix: Your pancakes will be dense and hard if you mix too long. You only want to mix the ingredients together and stop.
- Butter the pan when you are cooking the pancakes. This helps them to not stick and adds more flavor.
- Butter: top the pancakes with REAL butter and REAL maple syrup.
- Use whole milk! This is important for the overall taste. The added fat in whole milk makes these pancakes perfect.
How To Make Pancake Mix Ahead
Save some time in the mornings and make pancake mix. With this ready-to-go pancake recipe, you’ll be minutes away from pancakes any day of the week. Simply mix all of the dry ingredients together. Store the pancake mix in an airtight container or plastic bag. On the day you are ready to make the batter, add in the milk, egg, and butter. Easy-peasy.
Ready in minutes by using an electric skillet
to make a bunch or a stovetop skillet
to make a few at a time, your whole family will love these homemade pancakes!
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Homemade Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 cups milk
Instructions
- Sift together the dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into a large bowl.
- Make a well in the middle of the dry mix. Add the wet ingredients-the egg, milk, and butter.
- Lightly whisk the batter together until just mixed. The batter will have small lumps. Let sit 5 minutes while your skillet heats up.
- Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil to the skillet. With large skillet on medium-high heat add 1/4 cup of pancake batter to the skillet.
- Let cook until bubbles form on the surface and edges are dry.
- Flip and continue to cook for 1-2 minutes until golden brown.
- Top for butter, powdered sugar, and pure maple syrup to serve!
Video
Notes
TIPS FOR THIS FLUFFY PANCAKE RECIPE
- Do not over mix: Your pancakes will be dense and hard if you mix too long. You only want to mix the ingredients together and stop.
- Butter the pan when you are cooking the pancakes. This helps them to not stick and adds more flavor.
- Butter: top the pancakes with REAL butter and REAL maple syrup.
- Use whole milk! This is important for the overall taste. The added fat in whole milk makes these pancakes perfect.
Nutrition
Nella Rohrich
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Maria Khmara
Best homemade pancake recipe!!!! I usually never leave comments on any recipes but this one deserves 10 stars!! Perfect taste, even better than the already ready pancake batter mix! Thanks ! xx
Karen
Worst recipe ever. Ultra thick chunky needs water doesn’t cook through. Burns before it cooks because it’s so thick. Waste of ingredients.
Carol
If it’s to thick just add a little more milk this recipe is pretty good…
Raven
These are delicious!! So glad I came across this recipe! I wonder can I double up the ingredients to make a larger batch? They go quickly! Thank you!
Tom
Yea these are very popular since I discovered your recipe
✰ bella ✰
These pancakes were awesomely delicious! My daughter enjoyed them SO much. I put some chocolate chips in, and it was perfect. Beautifully done!
Mickey Jenkins
Very good pancakes. This is the recipe I will use for now on, because they have a fluffy consistency with them.
Leigha
This is the best pancake recipe I’ve ever used! I make it about once a week for a congrats-you-made-it-through-the-work-week treat. I added some vanilla extract and cinnamon for added flair. So good! So simple! Thank you!
Kelli
So light and fluffy. Delicious!
Andrea
Can you use this batter to make sheet pan pancakes? If so, what instructions/ingredients would you adjust or advise?
Kasey Schwartz
You know, I haven’t tried it. I bet you can. I’ll work on that and let you know!
Suzanne
Needs maybe mor liquid or 2 eggs
Kasey Schwartz
Hmmm…I think the recipe is good with the amount of liquid. Did you over mix?
Kelli H.
So so so good! Such an easy recipe to make that I’m kicking myself for using a box mix for so long. My husband requests these pancakes at least once a week!
Melissa
Mine tasted like baking soda? I was shocked at the amount at first and it left a baking soda after taste- yucky
Kasey Schwartz
Well, baking soda isn’t an ingredient. Try the baking powder next time – that should fix your problem. 🙂
Lexi
My kids absolutely loved these! I added some vanilla extract to it also! So fluffy! Thank you!!
Tammy
My first Time making these pancakes and they were absolutely delicious. Very fluffy and tasty. I added 1/2 tsp vanilla and a couple of dashes of cinnamon. I will not make pancakes from a box again. My grannies would be so proud!
Patricia
Tammy,
I do the same thing….they are delicious with the cinnamon and vanilla.
Veronica Chevrestt
This is by far the best pancake recipe that I have made for my family and we all love it. Thanks!
Cassandra Price
Easy recipe and best fluffy pancakes
Carol
These came out so good. I added blueberries in. Yum!
VL
My pancakes came out great!!!!
LV Law
I followed the recipe and I don’t know what I didn’t wrong, the taste was great but they were not fluffy. None of the items were expired and I didn’t not over mix. The mixture was running and my pancakes turned out very thin.
Brittany
I just doubled the batch to make these. Turned out EXTREMELY liquidy. Wish I could post a picture. Even added more flour and they were just not fixable. What a waste of ingrediEnts. I never leave comments but this made me mad! Not sure where I went wrong?? Followed the recipe exactly as written