with Boring Old Pancake Batter:
Step 1: Prepare squeeze bottle
- Buy a cheap squeeze bottle (like the generic kind made for ketchup and mustard*).
- Cut off part of the tip.
- Now the tip opening will be wide enough for thick pancake batter.
- Pour pancake batter into bottle.
*Target is currently selling packs of red and yellow (i.e. ketchup and mustard) squeeze bottles in the $1 section. 50 cents per bottle? Sweet!
Step 2: Go hog wild
- Use the squeeze bottle like a pen and "draw" your desired image out in pancake batter.
I decided on some really sophisticated designs...
Impressive, no?
Though I'm no Pancake Jim.
Yet.
Step 3: Enjoy!
- Place in bright green bowl.
- Top with syrup.
- Feed to toddler.
- Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
Olivia is certainly getting better at actually eating, but it's still a bit of a chore to get her to eat, well, anything. So it was a happy dinnertime for all when she happily sat and scarfed down pancake after pancake. Or, shall we say, funcake after funcake.
After the great Funcake Success of 2011, Bryan and I have decided that maybe it would be worth our time to make her food a little more fun. Maybe I'll get really committed and start making her lunches like these.
Oh, and by the way--the funcakes taste way better than regular pancakes. No, seriously. I think it's because the batter comes out just a little thinner and the pancakes are just a little more crispy. Anyone gonna back me up on this?
Fun pancakes. Try it.
9 comments:
What a cute idea!!
We had breakfast for dinner the other day too!
You're totally right about thinner pancakes tasting better (think crepes!) This was a fantastic idea!
Love the shirt she is wearing. Did you make that one? Great tip on where to find the bottles. Guess I need to take a trip to target soon...good thing its a new month next week so I can pretend to have money to go to target :)
I made these this morning with left over pancake batter from breakfast yesterday. My 2 year old son ate 4-5 pancakes (I lost count cause I was still cooking). This is so fun and fabulous. I am looking forward to doing it again and again. Thanks :)
Cute idea! I bet you can even make funnel cake this way...well except deep fried, topped with strawberries, ice cream and icing sugar dusted on top...yummy!
definitely better tasting! The crispy-ness is greater, and the oil-pancake ratio is higher... definitely better!
so I just got obsessed with Jim's Pancakes, and I've read almost his entire blog now, and While I like the idea of a batter bottle better, if you are aspiring to be like Jim, you may care to know that he actually uses a pastry (frosting) bag and tip to get his tight edges. according to his Octopus post. but I like your idea better, and never want to have to clean out a pastry bag that often.
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