Happy Mother's Day 2023 & Pumpkin Pie Spiced Pancakes

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

Dry Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 1 tspn baking powder
• 1 tspn pumpkin pie spice
• ⅜ tspn salt

Wet Ingredients:

• ⅔ cup milk + 3 tbspn milk
• 1 egg
• 1 tbspn butter (melted)
• 1 tbspn honey
• 1 tspn vanilla extract

Note:  I don't know if vanilla extract and pumpkin pie spice are normal in pancakes.  Math Teacher bought them during Thanksgiving thinking we'd make pumpkin pie; that didn't happen.  So now I have a lot of leftovers.  Anyway, cinnamon-and-vanilla-flavored pancakes didn't sound too bad.

Steps:

1. Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl.  Definitely do this step first.  Then I'll have clean measuring cups and spoons for the wet ingredients.
2. Combine all wet ingredients in another large bowl.
3. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.  Fold the mixture and make sure no flour lumps.  I started out with ⅔ cup milk.  If it looked dry or thick batter (I like a thinner batter), then I added one more tablespoon of milk.  Today I added three tablespoons.
4. Fry the pancakes in a nonstick pan.  The butter in the batter was greasy enough that I didn't need to add more to the pan.
5. Wait for the bubbles to rise to the top of the pancakes.  Flip.  Cook a few minutes more on the other side.  Continue with the rest of the batter.
6. Serve with more honey, more butter, or fruits.

Pumpkin Pie Spiced Pancakes

I couldn't taste much of the vanilla extract.  I could taste the pumpkin pie spice; it was actually quite nice.  Maybe from now on I'll keep adding pumpkin pie spice to pancakes.