Friday, June 21, 2013

Birthday Pancakes!

Today is my 28th birthday and also the first official day of summer! To celebrate both of these things, my sweet husband made me these birthday pancakes this morning. We sat out on the porch and I wanted to cry. I am so blessed. It's safe to say it is going to be an amazing day!

Birthday Pancakes
(Makes about 12 pancakes)

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2/3 cup yellow cake mix
1 tablespoon sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1-2 cups milk
Assorted sprinkles

Combine flour, cake mix, baking powder, sugar and salt in a bowl and mix. Add 1 cup of milk, egg and vanilla and stir until smooth. You want the batter to look like regular pancake batter; not too thin, not too thick. Start with 1 cup of milk and add more if you need to.

Preheat a skillet on medium heat. Fold desired amount of sprinkles into batter. More sprinkles please. Pour batter in 1/4 cup measurements onto skillet and let cook until bubbles form on top, about 2-3 minutes. Flip and cook for 1 minute more. Serve with vanilla glaze.

Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tablespoon milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Assorted sprinkles
Mix milk, extract and powdered sugar until glaze forms. You may need to add a little more sugar or water/milk to reach desired consistency. Mix into glaze and drizzle on pancakes then devour!
This is definitely the BEST pancake recipe I've ever tried! Original recipe from here!

22 comments:

Allison said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope it's great!

Those pancakes are so cute and look so yummy!

Katie Cook said...

Happy birthday Beautiful Allison! It is SUCH a blessing "knowing" you through the blog world. You exude SOOO much JOY in all you do:) You deserve those yummy treats! Love katie

Carrie said...

Those look so good! I am going to pin this and do this for my kids upcoming birthdays. YUM! (If I can wait that long!) Happy bday!

Anonymous said...

yum! those look so good! happy birthday!

Shelley said...

now those are some pancakes i would consider eating! haha. Happy Birthday girl! have a great day and weekend :)

Kristen said...

Yay! So awesome! You deserve it! Happy Birthday sweet girl!

Anne said...

Yay, happy birthday! Lucky you having it on the longest day of the year, and I hope your hubby spoils you as much as mine did yesterday :) Off to a good start with those pancakes - they had me at frosting...

Erin LFF said...

Happy Birthday, friend!! I'm so glad blogging brought us together!!

Diary of a Brown Eyed Girl said...

Oh yummy! These look so good!

Katie said...

Holy moly these look yummy! Happy birthday!! Hope you have a great day!!

Betty said...

Yummy! And Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great day and weekend!!

Becky said...

Happy Birthday Allison!!!! Those pancakes look absolutely delicious :) I hope your day continued to be amazing!

Anonymous said...

Um, YUM! And happy birthday!! Hope the rest of your weekend is just as wonderful. :)

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The Lady Okie said...

Happpppy birthday, friend! What a great husband you have!

Katie said...

these look heavenly! happy birthday, lady!

Rach said...

These look SO delicious! What a sweet husband. :) Happy birthday weekend, friend! :)

Gentri said...

Oh man! I've ALWAYS wanted to try these but never have. :P It was just my birthday, I should have made these!

Gentri said...

OH! And happy birthday to you! Yesterday was my sisters birthday too!

Elizabeth said...

wahoo!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! you sure are starting the day off right!

Lexilooo said...

happy, happy birthday! hope it was a wonderful day, and those pancakes look amazing!

Amanda said...

He did a great job! Those look yummy--definitely saving that recipe : )

Megan said...

These look so delicious!!! Happy belated birthday!! Hope it was great!!