Join My Readable Feast over at Pancake Recipes for his Carnival of the Recipes salute to Pancake Day – also known as Shrove Tuesday – on February 5th.

The Denver Post ran a wonderful healthy pancake recipe created by their food editor Kristen Browning-Blas. What I like about it is that you can prepare the dry ingredients ahead of time to keep in the freezer so you always have them on hand – all you need to do is add buttermilk and an egg.

If you’re allergic to eggs like my daughter Lucie, then you can use a blend of milk, sour cream, and yogurt instead. To make it even healthier you could try no-fat milk and plain no-fat yogurt (which is kind of sour like buttermilk). Also, instead of vegetable oil, try some grapeseed or flax oil for extra Omega-3 fatty acids.

Oatmeal Pancakes

Ingredients

1. 1 1/2 cups raw quick or old-fashioned oats
2. 1 1/2 cups unbleached white flour
3. 2 cups whole wheat flour
4. 1/4 cup each: flax meal, wheat germ
5. 6 tablespoons brown sugar
6. 2 tablespoons baking powder
7. 1 tablespoon baking soda
8. 1 tablespoon salt

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients. Store in a resealable bag in the freezer.

To make about 12 medium pancakes:

1. Blend 1 cup dry mix with 1 egg and 1 1/4 cups buttermilk (or a blend of milk, sour cream, yogurt) and 2 tablespoons vegetable oil. Stir to remove lumps but do not over beat. Let sit at least 10 minutes to soften oats.
2. Pour by half-cups onto hot buttered griddle.
3. Serve with butter, syrup or honey, jelly, whipped cream and/or powdered sugar.

Pancake Inspired Books

We all know If You Give a Pig a Pancake, but there are lots of other wonderful children’s books with a pancake theme:

• Pancakes, Pancakes! by Eric Carle
• Pancakes for Breakfastby Tomie dePaola
• Mama Panya’s Pancakes: A Village Tale from Kenya by Mary Chamberlin, Rich Cahmberlin, and Julia Cairns
• Curious George Makes Pancakes by H.A. and Margret Rey
• Marsupial Sue Presents “The Runaway Pancake” (Book and CD) by John Lithgow and Jack E. Davis
• The Runaway Pancake by Mairi Mackinnon, Lesley Sims, and Silvia Provantini from Usborne Books
• Mr. Wolf’s Pancakes by by Jan Fearnley
• Round Is a Pancake by Joan Sullivan Baranski and Yu-Mei Han
• Hey, Pancakes!by Tamson Weston and Stephen Gammell
• Pancakes For Supper by Anne Isaacs  

Do you have a favorite pancake book or recipe? Share below!

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