This is a fun show! Arlene is whipping up a wide variety of tasty pancakes. These recipes are perfect for a family breakfast, a brunch with friends, a quick weeknight dinner, or even with fruit and ice cream for dessert.
Featured in this episode from 2006 are “melt in your mouth” pancakes, blueberry riccotta pancakes, and a giant pancake called a “Dutch boy.” The “melt in your mouth” pancakes are really good with some pecans mixed in!
Note: We don’t have the exact recipes for the bacon and sausage, but Arlene describes them in the video. The sausage should be cooked in a tiny amount of water in a covered skillet, then once the sausage is cooked through, you should take the lid off and let the sausage brown. The bacon can be cooked in the oven on a rimmed baking sheet at 300 degrees for 20-30 minutes.
Special Creamy Pancake Topping
Ingredients
- 1 cup marshmallow cream
- 1/2 block cream cheese (4 oz)
Instructions
- Combine marshmallow cream and cream cheese in a bowl and blend thoroughly with a mixer until the two are completely combined and smooth. Use to top pancakes, cobblers, pies, cakes, fresh fruit… almost anything! Enjoy!
Dutch Boy Pancake
This giant pancake is delicious filled with fresh fruit!
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3 eggs
- 1 pkg cream cheese, soft (8 ounces)
- 1/2 cup marshmallow cream
- 1 cups sliced strawberries, sweetened
- 2 medium peaches, peeled and diced
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Add butler to 9-inch pie pan and heat in oven until melted. Tilt pie pan to evenly coat bottom and side with melted butter.
- In a bowl, with a whisk, beat flour, salt, milk and eggs until well blended. Pour into pie pan. Place on lowest oven rack.
- Bake in preheated oven for 18 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees. Bake an additional 10 minutes or until golden brown. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, beat cream cheese and marshmallow cream with mixer on medium speed until well blended. Fill pancake with fruit and top with cream cheese topping. Serve immediately. Makes 8 servings. Enjoy!
Blueberry Ricotta Pancakes
These pancakes are rich and delicious.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
- 4 egg yolks
- 3 Tbsp sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
- 4 egg whites
- blueberry syrup or maple syrup
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt. In another mixing bowl beat together ricotta cheese, egg yolks, and sugar until well combined. Add to flour mixture; stir until smooth. Stir in milk. Fold in blueberries.
- In a small mixing bowl heat egg whites with an electric mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form (tips stand straight up). Gently fold the beaten egg whites into batter, leaving a few puffs of egg white. Do not over beat.
- Heat a lightly greased griddle or heavy skillet over medium heat until a few drops of water dance across the surface. For each pancake, pour about 1/4 cup batter onto bot griddle. Spread batter into a circle about 4 Inches in diameter.
- Cook over medium heat until pancakes are golden brown, turning to cook the second sides when pancake surfaces are bubbly and edges are slightly dry (about 1 to 2 minutes per side). Serve immediately or keep warm in a loosely covered oven-proof dish in a 300 degree oven. If desired, serve with blueberry syrup or maple syrup. Makes 16 pancakes. Enjoy!
Melt in Your Mouth Pancakes
These pancakes are easy to make and taste so much better than just using the box mix alone.
Ingredients
- 2 cups Bisquick Baking Mix
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp baking powder
- Vegetable oil
Instructions
- In a bowl, combine all ingredients and stir just until blended. There will be lumps; do not over mix.
- Lightly grease your griddle or skillet with vegetable oil. Place over medium high heat. When a drop of water sizzles on pan, it's time to begin cooking the pancakes. Place a scant 1/4 cup batter onto griddle and spread into a circle. Allow to cook until evenly browned. Flip to cook other side until browned. Remove from griddle and serve immediately. Cooked-pancakes may be held in a warm oven. Serve with your choice of toppings. Makes about 14 pancakes. Enjoy!
Transcript
- Well hello, and welcome to “At Home” today. Do you see this little punkin’? We showed you her a couple of weeks ago. She’s almost three months old. Can you believe that? This is Mia. This is Linda Wilson’s granddaughter. So, you know, we’re not partial or anything, but we really are. Isn’t she the sweetest little thing you ever saw? Look at that face. Hey baby, are you okay? Are you having fun yet? Look at these toes. You know what, when I see babies like this, I think they’re so fresh from heaven, because they are. They don’t know anything that’s goin’ on in the world. The most important thing to them is either lying in their binky, or their thumb, or the bottle, and gettin’ these diapers changed, because you know what I mean? That’s the most important thing. And isn’t it sad how soon that they have to learn the things of life? But they do. But this baby comes from Christian grandparents and Christian parents. And you know what? That’s four great things she’s got going for her. Because to be in a home where there is a knowledge of God and knowledge of what’s right to do, and doin’ it, and be trained under the nurture and admonition of the Lord. I tell you what, she’s got everything going for her that she needs. There’s nothing like praying grandparents. So if you’re a grandparent out there today, we honor you. And I say you pray for those grandchildren. And even if it looks like they’re not workin’ through, like what you want them to be doin’, or things aren’t happening, you know what? They will turn around if you keep prayin’. Mia, we’re gonna keep praying for you, sweetheart, because you know what? God has a plan for your life, a very special plan, that only you can fulfill. And He will show you when it’s time. But first, Mom and Dad got a few years of buyin’ them clothes, gettin’ them toys, feedin’ that food, take you on your vacation. You’re gonna have a good time. She’s droolin’, that’s okay. We don’t care. It’s when of the adults drool that we have a problem. Well, you know what? We’re doing breakfast today, so stick with us. Mia’s gonna get in the batter too, maybe, maybe even some blueberries. We got some great ideas for breakfast right here on “At Home.” We’ll see you back in a minute. Mm-whah! Here’s today’s “At Home” hint. To make a better omelet or scrambled egg dish, try adding a small amount of water instead of milk when you are beating the egg. Milk products tend to harden the yoke, while water tends to slow down the coagulation of the yolk. If you’ve got a helpful hint, we want to hear from you. Send your hint to “At Home Hints,” Cornerstone TeleVision, Wall, Pennsylvania, 15148-1499. Well, if you’ve just joined us, you missed Mia. She is now our resident grandchild, because that’s Linda Wilson’s granddaughter. So we appreciate when Christie brings her by. And we wanna say hi to Great Grandma out there. I know she’s watching from Harrisburg. We appreciate you watching. And I know you had a very important birthday. That’s great. We celebrate life with you. All right, today, we’re doing pancakes, all kinds of pancakes. And Linda had brought her, this is great, this is an electric griddle. Now I brought my old trusty one. I’ve just greased it to go on real low. And I’ve put a few pecans, ’cause that’s gonna come up later when we make something special. First we’re gonna make, these are a Blueberry Ricotta Pancake. Oh, we’re gonna do some flour, about 1/2 a cup, couple of teaspoons of baking powder. Now you wanna be sure to look at the date on the bottom of your can. Because if it’s old, these won’t puff up for you. Then we’re gonna add some salt. Just mix this about. Set that aside. Next, we have four egg yolks, just the yolks. We’re gonna add some sugar to the yolks. No yolk, we’re addin’ sugar here. Okay. Bad joke, no yolk. Okay. And Michael, you’re supposed to be laughing. He’s a little late on the laugh. And then we’re gonna add one cup of ricotta. Okay. And you can use the part skim or the whole, whichever is best for you. And we’re just gonna mix that together, just like that. That’s gonna make them so nice and rich. I love blueberries. They’re so good for you. And I love them in pancakes. I love them in muffins, uh. Yummy, okay? So we have the ricotta in there. Now we’re going to add the ricotta mixture to our flour mixture. Make sure we get all of that good stuff out of there. We also have taken a pound of bacon. I’m gonna talk you through this. This’ll be in our newsletter. And we just laid it single file, or single layer, on a cookie sheet, put in the oven to bake at 350. You’re gonna be amazed at how quick and how delicious that bacon is. And we’ve got some sausage that we’re cooking, ’cause these are things that are accompaniments to our pancakes today. All right, we have this mixed up. Now, we’re gonna stir in the milk. It’s just a little bit of milk, about 1/4 of a cup. Remember, people wanna get the pancake batter real smooth, without lumps. It needs to have some lumps, ’cause that’s what gives it it’s texture and it’s thickness, and it makes it really good, you get those little taste buds in there, you know? Okay, now I’m gonna fold in cup and a half of fresh blueberries. There’s all kind of goodness in these berries. And you don’t wanna, don’t smash ’em up, because we want whole berries in these pancakes. Look at that. And just stir them. Then we’re taking the egg whites, that we used the yolks, and we’re gonna fold this. And you know what this does? This just lightens the batter, so they’re not so heavy. And these, I’m telling you, and you just, you know how to fold. Go down, bring it up and over, down, and up and over. And you don’t wanna make sure that all that whites has to be gone. You wanna see a little bit of that white egg white in there. Okay, and that just lifts the batter, like so. Okay? Okay, now we have the griddle hot. We have it on about 350. Is that right? 350, okay. And let’s see, I better stir that just a bit more. But you don’t stir it to too long, or you’ll lose the puffiness. And you want to do about 1/4 of a cup. It’s really what, you know, I wanna use about 1/4 cup measure, which I don’t have here, and I thought I did, but that’s okay. I’m gonna use this little scoop here. Now this is more than 1/4 of a cup, so I’m not gonna completely. And what you do, drop it on your griddle. And then you’re supposed to make about a four-inch round, just like that. And just line them up. You know, perfectly-round pancakes are beautiful, but I mean, does it really work? Can you get them perfectly round? If your batter’s real, real thin, sure. But if it’s not, it doesn’t matter. They look homemade, and guess what? That’s what you want, homemade. I might need to turn this up just a nip. This is supposed to make about 16 pancakes, so I think it will. Remember, those egg whites in it really makes it light. Now you can put blueberry, any kind of blueberry syrup, if you make your own. Or you can use plain, if you’re not that big on blueberries. For me, I would love blueberry syrup on these. Little pat of butter, uh! And the livin’ is easy, oh yeah. You know, I really like breakfast. I just like to make breakfast. That’s fun. Okay, I’m gonna ask Linda to come in and help, since this is her griddle. She can man the griddle, okay? And I’m gonna move on to… Here Lynn, you wanna take those? Thank you. I’m gonna move on to my Dutch Boy Pancake. This is unusual and different, because this one, you don’t do this on the griddle. You do this in the oven. And this is two tablespoons of butter. And we’re gonna go ahead, and pop that in the top oven for me. And I’m gonna make the filling. You want that to get good and hot and melted. So here we have about 1/2 cup of flour in a bowl, and we have some salt, 1/4 of a teaspoon of salt. Okay. Mix that around. Not too much to this, because this is a pancake that you put it into the pie plate, and it will bake up almost like a shell. But it’s made out of pancake batter. And it bakes up in a shell. You bring it out. You fill it full of fresh fruit. Uh, hello. That’s one of those like you bring it at the end, and people go, “Wow, does that look good!” You’re right, it does. All right, what else do we have to put in here? Let’s see, I have my flour, my salt, my milk. I don’t see any milk here, okay? Yeah, it’s in the fridge, okay. And three eggs. Let’s do 1/2 cup. Okay. Oh, there it is. Okay. You know what? While we’re mixing this up, we’re just gonna add the eggs and the milk, and pour it into our pan. When we come back, we’ll show you what that looks like. Stay with us for breakfast, brunch or just plain old good pancakes. We’ll be right back. Well, if you’re just joining us, we’re doin’ pancakes. We’re doing’, really these are, uh, Linda, do these look good. Take a look at that. Oh, those are Blueberry Ricotta Pancakes, and they are as light as a feather. We can’t wait to chow those down. But I’m making my Dutch Boy Pancake. And like I told you, here’s the melted butter, and we’re swirling it so it goes around the edge of the pie plate, ’cause I’m gonna pour, this is the batter that I just made with the flour and the eggs and the milk. Just pouring that in. Okay. And it’s going into a 450-degree oven. That’s pretty high, but you’ll understand why when you see it. That heat has to get in there to puff it up, all right? Okay, let’s see. Eh, better use this. This is gonna bake, let me see here now. I wanna make sure I get the right one. This’ll bake for 18 minutes, and then we’re gonna turn it down to 350. We’re at the top one here, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay. See, it’s already startin’ to bake. Uh, yes. Okay 15 minutes. We wanna set the timers, so we remember. Important part, okay. Then we’re gonna turn it down to 350. That’s gonna be great. What we’re gonna do with that is fill it with all kind of cut up fruit, which we have. But I wanna make a topping for it. Linda, you’re gonna love this topping. You will love it, because it makes a great addition to the fruit that goes there. This is just marshmallow cream, you know like you put in fudge or whatever you do with it. Some people love it with bananas and peanut butter. But we won’t go there today, okay? So that’s about a cup. And then we have 1/2 of an eight-ounce cream cheese, which is four ounces. And all we’re gonna do with that.
- Let me plug-
- Oh we, that would help, huh? Very good. We have no power.
- [Lynn] I hope, who knows.
- Okay, well anyway, we’re gonna make this. Larry’s gonna help us here.
- [Lynn] Yeah, thanks Larry.
- We still have no power, Larry. We have power now. Thank you Larry! That Larry does everything, you know. Okay, so we’re mixing this. Thank you so much. Boy, am I glad he was here, ’cause we have no clue what goes on over there, he does. And this is just gonna blend well. Then we’re gonna top the fruit that we put into our Dutch Boy Pancake, and we’re gonna be great. Here we are, okay? That’s really all it is to it. I mean that’s like nothing. So there’s our topping. Let me get rid of this, Lynn. That’s all we needed, okay.
- Okay.
- Now I’m gonna some melt, they’re called Melt In Your Mouth Pancakes. And these are the ones I make at home all the time for Paul and me, okay? And they’re so simple. Actually, they’re right on the Bisquick box. Because I was reading that one day, ’cause they have an interesting recipes, and I saw this. They were called Melt In Your Mouth, and they literally do. All right, two cups of Bisquick. Now we’re gonna put two eggs. One. How we doing over there? Are they?
- Okay.
- And you’re gonna just drop those into a cool oven, like 200 degrees, something like that?
- Yes, mm-hmm.
- That’s great. Okay, we have two eggs. Don’t wanna get the wrong recipe going here. And we have a cup of milk, tablespoon of sugar, two teaspoons of lemon juice. Doesn’t make sense, but I’m tellin’ you, they will be light, they’re not heavy at all. Two teaspoons of baking powder. Okay. That’s simple. It’s really not hard at it all. And get my whisk in here. And we’re just gonna blend this. Now what I like about this, there are all the variations. Because this is your basic pancake. And you can put fruit. I have my other griddle goin’ there. You can do fruit. You can do nuts, chocolate chips, if you wanna go that route. But see I’m not gonna mix this ’til it’s totally smooth, because I don’t like that. I don’t want it to be a crepe, I want it to be a pancake. The difference is the crepe is a thin, thin batter, and a pancake has more substance to it. So we just mix this up. How we doing?
- Doing good.
- Yeah. Boy, they’re looking good. This place smells fabulous, between bacon, sausage and pancakes. I don’t know what else you could want, right?
- [Lynn] You’ve got it.
- Now, what did we do with those pecans there?
- [Lynn] We toasted them.
- We just toasted them on the griddle, okay? Can’t find my little dipper thing I’m lookin’ for, Lynn. Think I’ll use this one. This’ll be fine. Okay, so I’m coming over here.
- Do you want a measuring cup?
- No, I think I can do it with this’ll be fine. Let me just show you what’s goin’ on here. That’s our sausage cookin’. We covered it with water first. And then after the water dries up, cooks, ’cause it cooks through. Now we just take the lid off, and we start shakin’ the pan, because we want them to brown up, okay? And they are already. Oh, it smells so good. That’s the easiest way to cook sausage, and be sure that it’s cooked through. All right, now, let me turn up my griddle just a nip.
- [Larry] It’s unplugged.
- Okay, now this is on top. We’re okay.
- [Larry] You can’t .
- Okay, I had some pecans here, and I’ll tell you what. They just brown a little bit, and just push them in like that. Gonna push them in. Can do blueberries that way. Could do chocolate chips. I would put the batter down first, and then do the chocolate chips, okay? When you get a lot of pancakes, you have to make a lot for a crowd, the best thing you can do is make them ahead and stack them, put them into a 200-degree, 300-degree oven, and don’t put anything on ’em to tightly close in the moisture. They’ll get soggy. Just loosely cover them. Is this thing on? Yep. I’m just gonna use this griddle too, okay? Since Larry’s telling me we’re having a little problem with my griddle. ‘Cause we had to unplug the… But that’s okay. This will all work, okay? Pancakes are like, it’s a community. It’s on? All right. Larry led me astray. Wasn’t the first time. It’s okay. Appreciate this crew, ’cause they always get in there and try to make it happen, and I appreciate that. These don’t even have to cool look real fast. Let them go slower and brown evenly. Tell ya, when we get to the table today, you’re gonna really wish you were here. ‘Cause I think half the crew, and half the people in the offices, are probably gonna come by. So we’ll be back in just a minute with everything we’ve prepared today and the final, in just a minute. Well, we hope that you’ve enjoyed today’s program, because we certainly have enjoyed putting it together. Pancakes, pancakes, and more pancakes. And let’s take a little trip around the table. This is our Dutch Boy Pancake. See how it comes up into a shell? And then we filled it with fresh fruit and that little topping that we made. That is like the center of the table. That you’d wanna bring out, if you have, you could make this sometime when you have just a very small breakfast, something light. Bring this out, and you’ll wow the crowd. And then we have our sausage and our bacon that we cooked. These recipes are all in the newsletter, you’ll get them all. And that’s great to do it like that, it’s not greasy, the bacon, the grease is all gone. Next to it, we’re showing what we can do. We just have some plain pancakes, just added a little Cool Whip. It can be a dessert item if you want to. And don’t forget, if you have leftover pancakes, put them in the freezer, pop them in the toaster when you want just two for breakfast sometime. That works well. Next to it, we have raspberries on plain pancakes. Next to that, we have a couple of pecan pancakes there. And we’re gonna pour some maple syrup over that one. And in the center, you can see there are our Ricotta Blueberry Pancakes on a big platter, an old griddle in fact that’s a great serving idea, with our Melt In Your Mouth Pancakes that are light as a feather. This makes such a colorful, beautiful table. And there’s nothing like beginning the day with your family around the table. Most of all, nothing like beginning the day with the Lord. And what better place than here? I have many memories, my brothers and I, sitting at our breakfast table and having family alter after we had something similar to this. So this is a good foundation for the day when you spend it with your family, and the Lord being the center. And then we just added some wonderful orange juice. We’ve got coffee. What more could you want, except some great family and friends sitting around the table. That’s why there’s always a place for you. We appreciate you, family. You’re important to us. You’re important to our ministry. We hope that something we’ve said today, will encourage you to try to do just a bit better. If you’re a grandmother or a grandfather, you sow seeds of prayer into those grandchildren’s lives. Our family, my personal family, are reaping the benefits of praying grandparents. And you know, you say, “Well, I don’t have money, and I can’t.” Well, you can pray. Everyone can pray. And don’t forget, go to church this Sunday, every Sunday, in fact, because you know what, they’ll miss you if you’re not, and you’ll miss it if you don’t go. Most of all, the Lord will miss not having you there. So until the next time, be sure to join us, because it just wouldn’t be the same without you here at home. We’ll see you then.
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