The Best Pancake Recipe – This tasty pancake recipe is easy and has a secret ingredient that gives them the perfect fluffy pancake consistency.
My whole family loves this pancake recipe. This has become my go-to when we want pancakes for breakfast on the weekends.
What’s the secret ingredient that makes these pancakes the best? Sour cream. It may sound strange but it really works!
These sour cream pancakes have a butter crisp outside and the inside is so soft it’s almost creamy. To balance the flavor of the sour cream, I added more sugar. So these are actually sweeter pancakes than most. So good!
The pancake batter is made in one bowl, making this pancake recipe easy!
How to make pancakes:
- In a large bowl, add milk and sour cream.
- Add sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
- Whisk together.
- Add flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Stir until just combined (this batter will be VERY lumpy).
- Melt butter in a skillet over medium-low heat.
- Pour pancake batter into the skillet (about ¼ cup for each pancake).
- Cook 3-4 minutes (bubbles will form on the top of the pancakes).
- Flip and cook 1-2 minutes.
Top with maple syrup, fresh fruit, fruit syrup, nuts, chocolate chips, etc.
Looking for more great breakfast recipes? Try these:
- Sausage Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole from Amanda’s Easy Recipes
- My Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal Muffins
- My Tropical Banana Bread
- Monkey Bread Recipe from The Self Proclaimed Foodie
- Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Bake by Alexandra’s Kitchen
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The Best Pancake Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Butter for greasing the pan -about 3 tablespoons
- Maple syrup for serving
Instructions
- In a large bowl, add the milk, sour cream, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Whisk until combined. It’s ok to have small lumps of sour cream.
- Add the flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir just until no large clumps of dry flour remain, trying not to over mix. The batter should be very lumpy.
- Melt about ½ tablespoon of butter in a large non-stick skillet over medium-low heat until lightly bubbling and light brown.
- Ladle the batter into the skillet making 3-4 pancakes (about ¼ cup of batter each). Cook 3-4 minutes, until bubbles form on top of each pancake and the bottoms are golden brown.
- Flip the pancakes. Cook 1-2 minutes, until the bottoms are golden brown.
- Carefully wipe out any excess browned butter with paper towels. Repeat with the remaining butter and pancake batter.
- Serve warm with maple syrup.
Has anyone tried these using buttermilk instead of regular milk?
I suggest a very low flame, don’t try to rush theough cooking these or they will burn easily.
Make sure your pan has been evenly hot for a few minutes and these come out so good!
This truly was amazing.
A family favorite 💜💜💜
Perfect texture!
Delicious! Thank you for the great recipe! My teenagers loved it for our lazy Saturday morning. So fluffy and reminiscent of Cracker Barrel’s!
Holy cow these ARE the BEST pancakes ever truly. Perfect. Don’t change a thing (ok except I used a 1/2 C scoop)
These were delicious, I added Blueberries. This is a keeper. Thank you
Best pancake mix I’ve tried thank-you Can you tell me if the batter can be made and put in the fridge over night @and it I emit the sour cream and sugar can I use the batter for fritters ? Once again a great recipe
To make them a little healthier, I used Greek Yogurt in place of the sour cream. Delicious! These will be our go-to pancake recipe! So light and fluffy and the yogurt adds a little protein.
I made them this morning and added chopped pecans just before flipping them They were delicious!
These are delicious! Thank you for sharing this recipe. Absolutely the best!!
I added a bit more sugar and cocoa to the mix. Tasted similar to fudge when slightly under cooked 🙂 thanks!
Love it! New Sunday breakfast 🙂
We make this recipe almost every weekend! The kiddos love it. I can’t get away with a box anymore lol.
Yum
These pancakes are sooooo delicious! Added fresh blueberries and used buttermilk instead of milk. They were amazing!
Best pancakes!
Fluffy and delicious!
My Favorite. I am so glad I found your channel.Thank you.. You are my kitchen Angel
I really like this recipe for pancakes! I tried it for the first time last night. I didn’t have sour cream, so I used chabini greek yogurt. And I really craving some sweet yummy pancakes, so I did about 3/4 the amount of sugar and divided the batter into 3 portions. In each portion one of each: organic wild blueberries, mini chocolate chips, and about 1/4 – 1/3 nutella. They all turned out amazing! I really love this pancake recipe!!! Thanks!!!