If your kids love helping out in the kitchen this is the perfect pancake recipe for them.
These buttermilk blueberry pancakes are perfect for making with little ones - even toddlers can have a go. We've split the recipe down into steps children will be able to manage. The rest will probably need mum or dad to work a little magic. We find step three - plopping the blueberries into the batter - is a favourite bit even with very young children. Obviously, a chef's hat is required, and possibly some blueberry testing along the way. This is a great Pancake Day recipe, but there's no need to save it for then - really it works for any weekend breakfast. If you want a more grown-up take, check out our classic blueberry pancakes recipe.
Ingredients
- ½ vanilla pod
- 1 egg
- 225g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 300ml milk
- 75g sugar
- 25g butter, melted
- 150g blueberries
- Honey, to serve
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Method
- Mum or Dad and child: Weigh and prepare the ingredients for the pancakes together.
- Mum or Dad: Split the vanilla pod and scrape the seeds from the inside. Melt the butter.
- Child: Crack the egg into the bowl and pour the prepared ingredients into the bowl. Stir with a wooden spoon. Gently stir in the butter and blueberries.
- Mum or Dad:: Heat a large non-stick frying pan and grease lightly with oil. Drop large tablespoons of mixture into the pan. Cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Child: Carefully flip each pancake over with a spatula. Cook until golden. Put two or three on a plate and drizzle over honey before eating.
Top tips for making buttermilk blueberry pancakes
Don't discard that precious vanilla pod. Keep it in a jar of caster sugar and it will flavour it to make vanilla sugar.
Fussy eaters might find whole blueberries too much, but cutting them into quarters - or even smaller, can make them more palatable. Feel free to use whatever fruit your children prefer though. Any berries or chunks of peeled apple work well.
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Author, writer and Mum of three, Anneliese Giggins has been creating recipes for Goodto.com for the past 9 years. She has also created food-related content for household names such as Daily Mail, Daily Express and Goodto.com. Her most successful to date was how to feed a family of 4 on £20 a week.
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