Recipes from our Files: Yogurt Pancakes with Homemade Syrup

Pancakes are a favorite around here for breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner. Often we keep Krusteaz Pancake Mix on hand for the simplicity and ease, but sometimes we just want good ol' homemade pancakes (or we run out of Krusteaz and haven't gotten more yet). 

So today I want to share with you one of our favorite pancake recipes: Yogurt Pancakes! 

I love the versatility of yogurt pancakes. You can use plain for just regular pancakes, vanilla for a slightly extra kick, or really spruce it up with blueberry, coconut cream, strawberry, chocolate, whatever!

The ingredients you will need are:

• 1 Egg
• 3/4 c. Yogurt
• 1/2 c. Milk
• 1/2 c. Vegetable Oil
• 1 c. Flour
• 1/2 tsp. Salt
• 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda

Add all ingredients to a mixing bowl and mix until blended well. There will still be a few lumps. You don't want to over mix. 

From there, you just cook them up! I'm still trying to get the hang of my gas stove. On our electric stove I cooked these over medium heat and it was perfect. With this gas stove I cook them on medium. This recipe makes 6 5-inch pancakes.

For syrup we like making our own too! It's super easy, I'll give you that recipe as well!

You need:
1 c. water
2 c. sugar
maple extract/flavoring (we prefer mapleine, but can't always find it and then just go with whichever flavoring/extract the store has).

Boil your water. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Add in 2-3 caps of flavoring. Sometimes I'll do 1 cap of maple, 1 of vanilla, and 1 of butter flavor. Sometimes 2 of maple and 1 vanilla. It's fun to mix and match flavors!

This recipe yields 2 cups of syrup.

Store leftover syrup in the fridge and reheat on the stove or in the microwave. This is a thinner syrup than you find in the store, but I love it that way! The pancakes soak it all up and it just tastes so yummy!

And here, so it's easier to copy and paste if you want to: 

Yogurt Pancakes

Ingredients: 

• 1 Egg
• 3/4 c. Yogurt
• 1/2 c. Milk
• 1/2 c. Vegetable Oil
• 1 c. Flour
• 1/2 tsp. Salt
• 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda

Mix ingredients together in mixing bowl. Drop by heaping 1/4 cups onto greased skillet. Cook until golden brown. Flip. Make sure to cook until the center is no longer raw. Yields 6 5-inch pancakes. 

Pancake Syrup

Ingredients: 

• 1 c. water
• 2 c. sugar
• Maple Flavoring
• Other flavorings optional. 

Boil water. Add sugar and stir to dissolve. Pour in 2-3 caps of flavoring. Stir to mix. Store leftovers in the fridge and reheat by stovetop or microwave.