7 Incredible Foods To Make With Pancake Mix That Aren’t Pancakes
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When you’re on a budget and you’re trying to be thrifty, pancake mix is your best friend. A box or bag of your standard pancake mix contains flour, sugar, leavening, salt and calcium carbonate. Using pancake mix as a base, you can make all kinds of sweet and savory recipes that have nothing to do with your plain stack of plain flapjacks. Plus, pancake mix lasts forever in your pantry.
1. Gnocchi
How can you not love gnocchi? Whether you toss the potato dumplings with a spicy tomato sauce, pesto, brown butter or vodka sauce, there’s something so comforting about a bowl of gnocchi. You can actually use your pancake mix to whip up a batch. Here’s a recipe that combines, potato flakes, water, egg, pancake mix and spices to make the gnocchi dough. Once you roll out the dough and cut it into bite-sized pieces, they’ll only take about 45 seconds to cook per batch. Not too bad for some pancake mix.
2. Fruit Fritters
No matter what the season, you can always make fresh fruit fritters with ingredients that you have lying around your kitchen. After you go apple picking, save a few for fritters. There’s nothing better with a cup of cider or tea. You basically just make the batter using the pancake mix and some apple pie-type spices like cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
Don’t coat the fruit until right before you’re ready to cook. Even though there’s no way to make fritters “healthy,” you can use coconut oil as a healthier alternative. Cut up the fruit into rings, cubes or slices. Once your oil is hot, coat the apples and lay them into the pan to fry until golden brown on both sides. Drain the fritters on a paper towel and sprinkle with a little cinnamon or powdered sugar before serving.
3. Flatbread
Pancake mix can make a perfect ingredient when you’re craving homemade pizza and don’t want to go buy pizza dough. Spray a 12-inch pizza pan with cooking spray or just grease it with olive oil. You just need to mix your desired amount of pancake mix with a little olive oil and water in a bowl. Knead the dough on a floured surface, spread the dough out in the pan, bake it for 10 minutes, add your sauce and cheese and bake again for 15 minutes until everything is cooked and the cheese is bubbly. Try a breakfast pizza or go crazy with your toppings.
4. Cookies
Whether it’s sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies or something a little more elaborate, you can make them with your leftover pancake mix. Here’s a recipe that uses pancake mix, sugar, eggs, water and vanilla to make sugar cookies. You can pretty much take any of your favorite cookie recipes that call for flour and replace the flour with pancake mix. Get a glass of milk and you’re all set.
5. Pancake Cupcakes
Let’s say it’s your friend’s birthday and you remember last minute that you promised you’d make cupcakes. This is when your pancake mix comes in handy. Line a cupcake pan with paper liners. Mix eggs, butter and milk into the pancake mix and fold the batter together. You just pour out the batter into the cupcake pan and bake. Here’s a recipe for cinnamon pancake cupcakes with maple cream cheese frosting that’ll make you forget all about your usual recipe.
6. Biscuits
Nothing will impress your breakfast guests more than freshly baked biscuits. Making biscuits from scratch can be a little time-consuming and using pancake mix from the box can eliminate a few steps. Here’s a simple recipe that only calls for pancake mix, water, butter and eggs. The results might not be exactly the same as if you made them completely from scratch, but they’ll be pretty close. Top them with some honey, jam, butter or an over-easy egg with cheese. You can’t go wrong.
7. Quiche
A quiche is a perfect dish to bring a dinner party. It can be made as healthy or as indulgent as you want, whether you make it with eggs and bacon or veggies. Pancake mix is an easy way to add a little more structure to your quiche without having to make a crust. This recipe makes a quiche sound easy. You add cheese and bacon to the bottom of a pie pan, whisk all your other ingredients together and pour the mixture in the same pan. It only takes a half hour-ish to bake it and you can serve it either hot or cold.
We bet you’re happy you saved that box of pancake mix!
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