Cinnamon Pancakes

The best recipes for breakfasty type foods are the recipes that are simple to make. This makes the recipe awesome and usable because breakfast is typically made shortly after waking. Or, if you are like me, breakfast is made at 1:30am when you can't sleep. In both situations, the person making the breakfast is half awake. And half awake people should not be trusted with following complex recipes. Neither should absent minded people. If you happen to be both of those things, just stay out of the kitchen. It is for your own safety.

I recently assembled a cinnamon pancake recipe from various recipes I found online. It is very easy to make. So easy that it hardly requires any instructions. Here is the handwritten recipe as proof:

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Everything should be written in purple pen. It just makes whatever is written look more friendly and inviting.

Anyhow, the recipe is basically: mix the dry ingredients, mix the wet ingredients (in a separate bowl), stir the wet and dry things together. I find it convenient to mix the ingredients for pancakes in measuring cups.

 After that, you just make the pancakes as normal. If you don't know how to cook pancakes, then you probably shouldn't be making it as a breakfast. Try it for lunch or dinner, when you are fully awake, so you don't catch anything on fire.

My serving suggestion is to lightly butter the pancakes and put chocolate chips on top of each pancake.

This recipe will make 4 large pancakes. For a stronger cinnamon flavor, add more than 1/2 T of cinnamon.

Plain Waffles

While I was growing up, my family ate a late lunch every Sunday after church at my grandparent's house. One of my favorite Sunday meals was waffles. Being able to eat something so delicious for a late lunch was amazing, especially since it was so obviously a breakfast food! I would sit at the table waiting with such anticipation for the first waffles to be done. Then I would, by some magical ability, eat up to 8 waffles.

The waffles my grandma made were always soft and fluffy. In my opinion, no other waffle recipe makes waffles that taste nearly as good. I recently found the original recipe that she used. It is from a GE "Grill and Waffle Baker" instruction manual and recipe booklet. There is no date anywhere in the booklet, but it is rather old!

Plain Waffles (Printer-friendly PDF Version)
2 egg whites
2 egg yolks
1 2/3 C milk
1/4 C vegetable oil
2 C flour
1 T sugar
1/2 t salt
3 t baking powder

Place egg whites into a mixing bowl and beat at high speed until stiff. Set aside.

Mix egg yolks, milk, and oil in a mixing bowl until combined. Stir flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder together. Add this mixture to the egg yolk mixture and mix together until well blended. This can be done with a mixer or by hand.

Fold egg whites into the batter. The batter will be a bit lumpy.

Preheat waffle maker. If your waffle maker has a temperature setting, set it at a medium temperature. Add waffle batter to preheated waffle maker, spreading the batter evenly over the grids. The amount of batter you use will vary depending on the size of your waffle maker, so use your best judgment!

Remove cooked waffle from waffle maker. Add butter, powder sugar, syrup, chocolate chips, or anything you like! I prefer butter and powder sugar.

I have a waffle maker that makes 4 waffles at a time and this recipe makes 4 batches of waffles, or 16 waffles.

Approximate nutrition facts per waffle: 110 calories, 4..6g fat, 13.5g carbs, 225mg sodium, 3g protein.