Easy Pancakes

Who doesn't love pancakes for breakfast? But who also doesn't love slaving in the kitchen first thing in the morning? Am I right or am I right?

Enough questions, here's a recipe for super simple and delicious pancakes.
My advice: skip the heavy maple syrup and opt for a generous dusting of powdered sugar and a couple dabs of butter, there's something light and satisfying about it...

Ingredients

• 1.5 C all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 T sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 4 T unsalted butter, melted

Directions

• Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a bowl
• Mix the milk and eggs in a large pitcher (this makes it easy to pour portions onto the griddle)
• Slowly whisk in melted butter
• Quickly mix in flour mixture, leaving lots of lumps (these create an extra fluffy, airy pancake)

• Heat skillet or griddle pan on medium hot heat *

* My trick for having a perfectly tempered pan: drip a few drops of water over the pan- they should "dance" around before evaporating. If the water doesn't sizzle- it's not hot enough, if the water sizzles aggressively and evaporates almost immediately it's too hot!

not ready to flip

ready to flip... see those bubbles?

mmmm perfect

• Pour a tester pancake, flip pancake when bubbles start to form in the batter and the bottom is golden brown, about 1-2 min.
• Cook pancakes in batches, remembering to temper the pan between each batch for perfectly cooked pancakes!