"pancake mix" news and stories

Roy G. Biv is coming to breakfast.

Feeding off the fact that kids enjoy brightly colored foods, now your kids can literally taste the rainbow with these Technicolored creations. Blogger i am mommy creates an excellent start to an active day for the droopy-eyed tots, vowing "if you want to start out your day with the most gloriously happy children, just try these yummy rainbow pancakes."

With a raving endorsement like that, who could resist? All that's needed is the standard pancake recipe and food coloring -- lots of it.

End verdict? These flashy flapjacks are certainly worth waking up for. For more rainbow foods, visit cafemom.com.

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When you think of good edibles for holiday giving, pancake mix doesn't naturally spring to mind. However, it's what my parents give out to their friends and family just about every year. My dad spent some time working at IHOP during the seventies and that experience with their mediocre pancake recipe led him to develop his own special blend. It's a mix of flours and whole grains, that when mixed with milk, beaten and egg and oil, turns out some truly awesome pancakes (it also makes a darn fine waffle). The recipe for Mo's Famous Pancakes (my dad's name is Morris) is after the jump.

We always gave it away packed in gallon-sized zip-top bags, with an instruction sheet tucked inside the bag. However, if you wanted to get fancy, you could also package it in wide-mouth quart size jars. If you're feeling flush, you can also give a bottle of real maple syrup along with your jar/bag of mix, but these days, that stuff is darn pricey.

When it comes to pancakes, I have always been pretty darn fortunate. My dad worked as a short order cook at the International House of Pancakes during his early twenties and because of that experience, he took it on himself to build a better pancake than the one offered at IHOP. He spent years devising his own dry batter mix, testing and tweaking the proportions in order to create a pancake that balanced fluffiness with whole grains, inner crumb with outer browning. For years, his pancake mix was in such demand that he would mix up huge batches of it, as gifts for friends and family during the holidays.

The only problem with his pancake batter is that demanded a lot of time to prepare. If we didn't happen to have a batch of the mix on hand, breakfast could take up to an hour to go from conception to execution. Even when there's some mix tucked away in the fridge (and it has to be refrigerated because it contains wheat germ, which goes rancid quickly), it's not an instant breakfast.

However, there are some other fathers out there who have created a line of pancake and waffle mixes designed to satisfy this need for a delicious, easy to prepare breakfast. Daddy Cakes come in nine different flavors and many of the mixes are prepared so that all you have to do is add water and a little bit of oil and you are ready to cook.

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