Blueberry Pancakes

Blueberry pancakes are a wonderful treat when fresh blueberries are in season. But don't limit your enjoyment of these tender, golden cakes to summer; frozen blueberries make them a year-round treat.

Prep

5 mins

Bake

5 mins

Total

15 mins

Yield

1 dozen 5" pancakes, 6 servings

Sample Imagery

Ingredients

contains dairy and eggs.

• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup (227g) milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, optional
• 3 tablespooons (43g) melted butter or 3 tablespoons (35g) vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 cups (180g) all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 tablespoons (25g) granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup (85g) blueberries, fresh or frozen

Nutritional Information

Serving Size: 1 pancake

Servings per batch: 12 pancakes

Amount per Serving:

• Calories: 115kcal
• Total Fat: 4g
• Saturated Fat: 2g
• Trans Fat: 0g
• Cholesterol: 40mg
• Sodium: 242mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 16g
• Dietary Fiber: 1g
• Total Sugars: 4g
• Protein: 4g

Equipments

• a griddle or a large frying pan
• stand or hand mixer
• baking sifter

Instructions

1. Beat the eggs, milk, and vanilla in a small bowl until light and foamy, about 3 minutes at high speed of a stand or hand mixer. Stir in the melted butter or oil.
2. Sift flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt together in a large bowl.
3. Pour the egg mixture(step 2) into flour mixture(step 3). Stir it just to combine. A few lumps are OK.
4. Set the batter aside to rest for a couple of minutes; it'll thicken a bit as it stands. Thin the batter with additional milk if it's not pourable consistency.
5. While the batter is resting, heat a griddle to 350°F. If you don't have a griddle, heat a large frying pan over medium-low to medium heat. Grease the griddle. When it's hot enough, a drop of water will skitter across the surface, evaporating immediately.
6. Drop the batter by 1/4 cupfuls onto the hot griddle or pan; a muffin scoop works well here. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon berries atop each pancake.
7. Cook the cakes till they're golden brown on the bottom, about 2 minutes. Flip them over, and cook till the other side is golden, 2 to 2 1/2 minutes.
8. Serve the pancakes immediately. Or transfer them to a platter, cover, and keep warm in a 200°F oven. Enjoy with butter and maple syrup.

Tips

• What kind of milk should you use in this recipe—skim, whole, something in between? It's up to you; skim milk will yield the least tender pancake, whole milk the most tender.
• Whole flour is recommended, but for gluten-free options, use almond flour, oat flour or alternative types of gluten-free flours.
• If you use fresh berries, mix them right into the batter. If you use frozen berries, it's better to scatter them atop the cooking pancakes. If you mix them into the batter, they'll tint your pancakes a rather unappetizing shade of green.
• Why is it helpful to let pancake batter rest before cooking the pancakes? Because it gives the baking powder a chance to start working, and the flour time to start absorbing the liquid, both of which make for fluffier pancakes.
• For pancakes with deep blueberry flavor and rich color, substitute ¼ cup (30g) blueberry powder for ¼ cup (28g) of the flour.

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Initial Research

Three Links to Recipe Websites

• Todd's Famous Blueberry Pancakes from Allrecipes

This website is short and sweet and easy to navigate. There are all the essential buttons, such as "save" and "print" buttons at the top, and a nice box for the facts such as prep time, cook time, and servings. There is a embedded youtube video to follow along the recipe and a photo gallery of actual people's results. The directions were a little too simple and not as friendly to baking beginners, as the steps are reduced to three long directions without any photos.

• Fluffiest Blueberry Pancakes from Pinch of Yum

This website has video references for each step, which makes it more friendly and appealing to the novice readers, including me. There is also a checkbox that allows you to tick all the ingredients off on the website, making it easier for the reader to shop for ingredients. "Print Recipe" button can also be useful. I am also glad to see the equipment needed at the bottom. However, the downside is that you have to scroll through a long article before you get to the recipe. Even though there is a "jump to recipe" button, it makes the website harder to navigate.

• Bluberry Pancakes from King Arthur Baking

This website isn't one of the first ones that come up when I type in "Blueberry Pancakes", yet I felt like the layout was clean and straightforward. This website feels more beginner friendly, as it provides alternative options for ingredients and equipments. Even though this website was missing punctuations from time to time, it is able to come across as more personal and 'human' by putting "tips from our bakers" section and "chat with a baker" option. One downside of this website would be the ingredients, where it just promotes their own products like vanilla extract or flour.

Three Links to Non-Recipe Websites

• DONÜTS

This colorful website is incredibly fun to navigate with its many interactions. There are so many hover and scrolling effects. All of the photographs in this website either has a very simple color background or it does not have one. This allows me to focus on each of the photographs. The website uses yellow and pink for its background and black for its type - which is quite simple. However, it uses three additional accent colors on type to make the website seem much more fun and lighthearted. This website also combines its type and images in a very intentional and harmonious way, which I want to incorporate in my project.

• Pom Maker

The Pom Pom tutorials are very easy to follow, and I think that I will try to follow this website's design language the most in my project. Even though it is not a food recipe, it is a how-to website on how to make cute pom pom objects. The website starts with a high-quality image of the finished product. Then, there is a neatly organized photograph of all the equipments with the description in the same order. In the instructions, there are photographs accompanied with the description to make the steps extra clear. I also really appreciated the large type size, which made it easier for the eye.

• Locomotive-Swab The World

The bright color palette of this website really grabbed my eye. I want to use different sections with different design motives like this one in my recipe website. This one is similar to the DONÜTS website in many ways, however, it retains a more professional look with a limited color palette and the consistency of the arrangement of its paragraphs. The horizontal lines and color blocking separates the sections very well.