2 simple pancake recipes to mix up your meals

Pancakes are one of the staple meals when it comes to breakfast or dessert. This sweet and savory dish titillates our taste buds with its warm, creamy butter and sticky syrup. What’s great about pancakes is that you can mix and match ingredients to complement your taste buds. If you’re looking for something fruity, you can add blueberries and strawberries for a tangy twist.

If you want something more piquant, on the other hand, you can add bacon and eggs instead. While it may seem daunting to stray from the typical pancake meal, here are a few easy recipes you can do to mix up your pancake breakfast.

Birthday cake pancakes

While you only have your special day once a year, you can still feel like it's your birthday with this birthday cake pancake. To make it, seededatthetable.com shares that you’ll need ½ cups all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon of sugar, one cup of yellow Cake Mix, one teaspoon of baking powder, ½ teaspoon of baking soda, 2 eggs, ¼ teaspoon of salt, ½ cups of buttermilk, 2 tablespoons of melted butter, ½ cup of milk, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract and 1/3 cup of sprinkles.

Before you start, heat your non-stick skillet/griddle over medium heat while you mix the cake mix, flour, sugar, soda, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with a whisk before adding the vanilla, butter, and milk. Mix the ingredients together before pouring them in with the dry ingredients and fold them until they’re fully mixed. Make sure to pour in the sprinkles and you can start cooking them on your warm griddle. For optional icing, you can mix powdered sugar and whip cream together and plot it on top of your birthday cake pancake!

Red velvet pancakes

Red velvet cakes have become popular over the recent years, and now you can even make them into pancakes!

According to gimmiedelicious.com, This simple dessert meal requires two cups of red velvet cake mix, ½ cup of all purpose flour, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon of butter or oil (for greasing the pan), and ¼ cup of milk or flour. Meanwhile, the cream cheese syrup requires ¼ cup of powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons of milk, 4 ounces of cream cheese (room temperature), and one teaspoon of vanilla.

To make the pancake, you first need to heat your skillet/griddle on medium heat before whisking the milk and egg in a medium bowl. From there, add the red velvet flour and all purpose flour at the same time and beat it by hand for around 2-3 minutes. Oil your pan and mix both the wet and dry ingredients before cooking them. Finally, to make the cream cheese syrup beat all of its ingredients together for about 1-2 minutes before slathering it on the pancake.