Pink and Purple Pancakes

My kids love pancakes, especially brightly colored versions of the recipe their babysitter found. The original recipe is on AllRecipes.com but I'm posting it below for you.

Pancake Ingredients:

• 1.5 c flour
• 3.5 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 TBSP sugar
• 1.25 c milk
• 1 egg
• 3 TBSP melted butter

Directions:

1. Combine dry ingredients and mix well.
2. Add in milk, egg, and butter. Mix well.
3. Add in food coloring (We use AmeriColor available on Amazon)
4. Cook in a greased skillet

The kids love making these in a variety of colors, but pink and purple seem to be the winners. I'm planning to buy big bottles of the pink and purple food coloring because we go through it faster than the other colors.

I make one batch then split it so each kid gets a bowl for their color choice. My eldest remains firmly in the pink camp. My youngest is much more willing to experiment. Thankfully, they will eat any color pancakes.

Even better, these can be frozen between pieces of wax paper. This is critical for my youngest who takes after my baby brother. She wants pancakes every morning and I don't often have the time to make a fresh batch. So, out of the freezer come the leftover pancakes. 30 seconds or so in the microwave and my youngest is a happy kiddo!

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