Deluxe Blueberry Pancakes

This is the second blueberry recipe in a row - you know what that means - THEME week!!!  Welcome to Blueberry-palooza friends!🫐 😅 

​My husband has never been so in board with a recipe theme week.  He LOVES blueberries!   Over the course of 24 hours, we had Blueberry Cream Pie recipe AND blueberry pancakes and fresh picked blueberries from the blueberry farm.  🥧🥞  

I have a blueberry bush that I share with the neighborhood deer that wander through my yard and particularly hungry birds that happen to be passing by my house.  By the time the animals fill their bellies, I get only a small portion of the blueberry crop, but I'll take it.  I eat the handful of berries that I bring in every few days as an afternoon snack and sometimes I even have enough to sprinkle into a batch of pancakes for a fruity breakfast treat.  ​

Blueberry pancakes are a favorite in this house.  We eat A LOT of them.  And they're not just reserved for our morning meal.  We eat blueberry pancakes in the morning, we eat them for lunch (and call it brunch) and we eat them for dinner.  There's really no wrong time of day to indulge in this decadent treat.  And if you've never made a batch of homemade pancakes - you don't know what you're missing.  😉

Deluxe Blueberry Pancakes
5 Tablespoons butter
2 cups flour
3 Tablespoons malted milk powder
2 1/2 Tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups buttermilk
1 egg
1 1/2 cups blueberries
1/2 teaspoon oil

Whisk together flour, milk powder, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. 

Melt 3 T. butter.  Whisk in buttermilk and egg. 

Make a well in center of dry ingredients.  

Add wet ingredients and mix until just combined. 

Heat griddle and use a paper towel to grease with oil.  Melt 1/2 T. butter on griddle. 

Drop 1/3 cup batter in center of griddle and sprinkle with blueberries.  

Repeat with remaining butter and pancakes. 

Cook 1 minute and then flip and cook until second sides are golden brown.  
 
I started making homemade pancakes out of necessity - I couldn't seem to keep pancake mix stocked in my pantry.  I kept running out at the worst times - ie. when my family was requesting pancakes.  😬  Then I realized that I could make my own pancake mix that was just as easy and even more delicious than the boxed mixed.  And you can you!  You may have just bought your last box of pancake mix.  I'm fairly certain that once you taste my homemade pancakes you're going to ditch the boxed mixes for good too.  

Ciao!

Disclaimer:  This recipe was inspired by the Deluxe Blueberry Pancake recipe in the May 2022 issue of  Cook's Country. 

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