After a late lunch yesterday at my nephew's 4-year birthday party and thus a late dinner of pepper-lime broiled chicken, we got a late start regarding breakfast today. What do you have when you have buttermilk, dates, oatmeal and walnuts on hand? Awesome pancakes. What do you do when you don't have the items in the pantry to make awesome pancakes? You go and get the stuff to make these:
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1/3 cup chopped dates
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 2/3 cups buttermilk
- 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Heat oven to 200°F. Combine flour, oats, dates, walnuts, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in large bowl.
Whisk eggs, buttermilk and brown sugar in medium bowl until blended. Whisk in butter and vanilla until well-blended. Stir egg mixture into flour mixture just until combined.
Heat griddle(s) or large nonstick skillet(s) over medium heat until hot; oil griddle(s). Ladle batter by scant 1/4 cupfuls onto griddle(s), spreading to 4-inch rounds.
Cook 2 minutes or until bubbles break surface of pancakes.
Turn; cook 1 1/2 minutes or until golden brown.
Place in oven to keep warm while cooking remaining pancakes.
These 'cakes are delicious!! What's kick-ass is that they are just as good reheated the following day if you, somehow, can't consume them all fresh from the griddle in one sitting. Regardless, you'll be spoiled and no other hot-cake will be satisfactory, especially if you top these bad boys with butter and Grade A maple syrup. Actually, I bet they'd be good with margarine and some Mrs. Butterworth's. Yep, they're THAT good.
Also, they are so filling that you don't need a side of eggs or bacon or ham or sausage or steak or anything else to go with breakfast. So that means you can use both your skillets for making the cakes.
If you had to go buy all the stuff to buy these specifically, they're definitely not the cheapest 'cakes to make. However, considering the multitude of uses for the most costly ingredients, it's worth it if you can swing it. In other words, we only have these when we have something else that requires buttermilk, like buttermilk-brined fried chicken. Dates (about $4/lb at Costco), oatmeal ($0.50-1/lb at Ralph's) and walnuts ($2-3/lb from Costco) will stay ok forever if you treat 'em right. Buttermilk is the most high-falutin' of the group. The rest we end up having on-site anyway.
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See Take 2 here if you're still not convinced. It even has a link to print.
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