Pancakes

Dec 23 2025

You can be complicated or simple with pancakes. I’ll give both here, with a bunch of optional things you can do or add to improve your pancakes. I also never measure anything when making pancakes, so this is hopefully a decent approximation of what I use. It’s a forgiving recipe.

Ingredients

• 2 Eggs (optional: Separated)
• 350ml Milk (1.5 cups)
• 300g Flour
• 1.5 tsp Baking Powder (more if you need it more fluffy)
• 2 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste (Optional)
• 2 tbsp Malted Milk Powder (Optional)
• 1 tbsp Sugar (Optional)
• 3 tbsp Butter or Oil (Optional)

Steps

• Heat up a pan (cast iron is best, but use what you got) to medium or medium high heat.
• Heat the oven to 170ºF or as low as you can.

1. Get out 2 bowls. Or 3 if you’re separating your eggs (for even fluffier Pancakes)
2. Add egg yolk (or full egg if not separating), milk, vanilla, and butter/oil to one of the bowls and blend with a whisk or electric mixer until combined. Egg whites go into a second bowl if separating.
3. Add flour, baking powder, malted milk powder, and sugar into a second bowl. Whisk together until blended.
4. Optional: If separating eggs, clean and dry the electric mixer then mix the 3rd bowl with the whites until stiff peaks form.
5. Add half of the dry ingredients to the wet and whisk lightly until just combined. Then add the second half and do it again. Do not over mix.
6. Scoop about 1⁄2 cup of the batter into the egg whites and gently fold them together with a wooden spoon until lightly mixed.
7. Fold the egg white mixture into the batter with a spoon being fairly light handed. Do not over mix. You want to retain the air from the egg whites for more fluffy pancakes.
8. Add a dab of butter to the pan. Pour about 1 cup of batter onto the melted butter. This will make a fairly large diner style pancake.
9. Leave for a few minutes until the edges start to get dry and the bottom becomes golden brown. If it’s really wet and the bottom is getting dark, turn down the heat. If it’s getting dry on the edges and the bottom is still light, turn up the heat. The first pancake is often a test pancake (but still eat it, this recipe makes like 3 pancakes since they’re so large).
10. Flip and cook on the other side until it’s brown on the bottom and the center is cooked through.
11. Place on a plate and put into the warm oven. Repeat steps 8-11 for the rest of the batter.