We used to have pancake on a stick for Sunday morning breakfast when my older children were younger. They were perfect to cook and then take on the drive to church. I knew it wasn’t the healthiest option for breakfast, but getting all the children to church was a tough job with lots of little ones. So I compromised. Then we started having more children and the cost for pancake on a stick got quite expensive, so we did away with it.
I was reminded by my older daughter of how much they used to enjoy pancake on a stick, so I figured there has to be a way to make an item similar to that and WAY healthier.
There was……
pancake muffins
- 3 c flour
- 1 T baking powder
- 3 T sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 cups of milk mixed with 1 T vinegar to make sour milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 T maple flavoring
- 4 T butter melted
Mix all the ingredients together to make your pancake batter and then you can start filling those tins.
We decided to make mini blueberry pancake muffins.
We poured the batter into the greased muffin tins using a cookie scooper. We then placed 3 blueberries onto each muffin. I had to use frozen blueberries—not in season yet.
Bake in a 400 oven for 10 minutes until done—stick a toothpick in the top, if it comes out clean it is finished.
For the next batch, we decided to make a replica pancake on a stick but in a muffin tin.
We cooked sausage links and cut them in half. Placed 2 inside the muffin tins that we sprayed really well.
We then poured the pancake batter over top of the sausage. Fill those muffin tins 2/3 of the way.
Put them into a 400 oven and bake for 20 minutes or until done.
We made numerous batches of these. After completely cooling, we put them onto cookie sheets and placed in the freezer.
Once frozen solid, we placed them into freezer plastic bags and filled our freezer.
I can either take these out the night before and throw in the oven for about 15 minutes on 350 to thaw, or if I forget, I take them out from a frozen solid state and cook 350 for about 30 minutes.
My children like to eat them plain, but you can dip them into maple syrup for extra sweetness.
Great freezer series, thank you. This is my first time batch cooking before baby #6 and your site has been a source of inspiration.
One question, when you place items on a cookie sheet to freeze before bagging, do you line the trays with any sort of paper first?
Thank you!
Can I ask is baby #6 a girl? 🙂 no I did not line the trays with anything. sometimes the tortillas might be a little frozen if they are wet, and if you take them out and let them sit for a couple of minutes, you can easily pull them off. I actually made these this week and I just put them directly into the freezer bags without stacking the muffins. I put them right in the freezer flat. Like four in a row…I hope this explains well. Saved me an extra step.
It’s a boy! Haha. I’m not sure I would know what to do with a girl at this point….
The Lord knows we have a small home, so He must be waiting until we have more room to send a girl!
Thank you for taking the time for answering. I’m learning so much from your site, it has been invaluable.
Your so welcome:) and congratulations!
Do you think it would be possible to microwave these? Sometimes, I’m not the best lately at getting up & cooking every morning before my kids go to school. We have a 12week old, who wants to be nursed while the kids are getting ready for school. So far, I’ve managed to make their lunches almost everyday, dinner every night & walk my 6yr old to the bus with the baby in tow in the stroller & walk our black lab. For me, just those simple things are wins lately, because this baby, I love her to death, but she just wants momma 24/7 & I’m ok with that.
But I’m almost done with my sewing/crafting area & I’m getting ready to start making dance wear & I’ve recorded some super cheap DIYs for holiday themed hair clips/head bands, decorations & more. I just need the time to edit them & upload them. Hoping & praying I’ll have the time to do so. That’s why I’ve been watching your videos to get ideas on how to get more out of my days. I used to food prep, before it was trendingly called that, but we moved to HI & it wasn’t as cost effective. But now, we’re back on the mainland in KS & I’m not working out of the home right now, so I have the time to do so.
Thank you for your time 🙂
It is so very nice to meet you! It is hard when you have little ones. I didn’t do what I do now when I had little ones:) You will get more free time, soon:) Yes we microwave them:)
This looks like a great idea that I’m definitely trying tomorrow…… Instead of maple flavoring, could I just use maple syrup? If so, how much would you suggest per batch?
You can just use vanilla flavoring, we like the maple so it tastes more like syrup. I don’t think that if you use syrup if it will give it much flavor…I could be wrong:)
I can’t get any of your recipes to print .is it supposed to do that? BTW u r so amazing and inspirational .I do all my cleaning to your videos!!
Hello…not set up not to print…but it would just be the internet page…not like a separate menu card..I didn’t set it up that way…I was new to that back then. Copy and paste in a word pad like microsoft office and that might help…hopefully
Hello, how many pancakes does this recipe make?
I am thinking 24 regular sized muffins based on the amount of flour in that recipe…it has been many many years…my apologies:)
It’s okay, thank you.
I was wondering how many pancake muffins this makes so I can see if I need to half it or not. Thank you