Baking with my kids has always been a favorite way for us to bond. While my firstborn child bakes and cooks much better than I do, one thing I know how to make is a delicious pancake. Today I’m featuring a festive set of Christmas pancakes for you to make this holiday season.
Mindful Parenting
While I do work a lot and that keeps things running smoothly, it’s always great to be more mindful as a parent and make time to do something fun together. During the holiday season, it’s pretty cold in NH so we tend to stick indoors. That’s why I love having some new holiday recipes to enjoy. These Chrsitmas Cookie Cutter pancakes will be a delightful change from your regularly scheduled pancake servings.
Christmas Cookie Cutter Pancakes
Whip up a festive set of pancakes using this Christmas Cookie Cutter Pancakes recipe today. Whether you want to start a new family tradition with these pancakes, or simply get ready to celebrate the holiday season, these pancakes are D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S.
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ¾ cups milk
- ¼ cup (½ stick) butter, melted but cooled slightly
Instructions
In a medium bowl, whisk together dry ingredients: flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, and vanilla. Then, slowly add the butter.
Create a well in the middle of the dry ingredients. Pour wet ingredients into the well and stir the batter until combined. There may be small lumps. Allow the batter to rest at least 5 minutes.
Transfer batter to squeeze bottles.
Heat a griddle to 300 degrees. Spritz with non-stick cooking spray for a coat with additional butter prior to adding batter.
Spray cookie cutters with non-stick cooking spray. (Do not use plastic cookie cutters.) Place cookie cutters on the griddle. Using squeeze bottle, fill the cookie cutter with an even layer of batter about ¼ inch deep.
When the bubbles break the surface of the pancake, use a fork to remove the cookie cutter. (Caution: The cookie-cutter will be hot.) Once the cookie cutter is removed, flip the pancake and cook until done.
Repeat with remaining pancake batter. Serve warm.
What are some family traditions for Christmas?
Now that you have a festive holiday pancake recipe to whip up with the kids, what are some other family traditions you can opt to do this holiday season? Below you’ll find a brief list of some family traditions for Christmas to start enjoying with your family this year.
- Host a cookie exchange.
- Volunteer at a local animal or homeless shelter.
- Go Christmas caroling.
- Elf on a Shelf.
- Donate food to a local food bank.
- Read Christmas stories.
- Watch Christmas movies.
- Open one present on Christmas Eve.
Mind you, I am not a winter person. I quite honestly hate the snow in NH and the cold weather, but I do love Christmas. The holiday lights and other beautiful holiday displays found around our local area make me smile. If you take away the cold weather, Christmas is by far my favorite holiday of them all. It’s a joyous time where most families pause to be more mindful of others as well as their own family unit. This makes my heart happy.
This looks like a fun idea! I need to try it when it’s the kids and I making breakfast! (Also need to look for some non plastic cookie cutters )
What a fun idea to make cute shapes. My granddaughter is totally going to love if I do this the next time she comes to visit.
What a great way to use Christmas cookie cutters! Your holiday pancakes look yummy and special!
I like that I can finally use the cookie cutters I have. I don’t ever make the cookies with them.
Pancakes is one of my kids favorite afternoon snacks to eat and they more like it if its on a different shapes. I do love that pancake cutter!
These pancakes are so adorable and what a genius idea to create cute shapes for our favorite breakfast meal! I will have to try this out with my little one.
I really love these. I’m going to have to do this for my daughters this year. I always wondered about using cookie cutters for pancakes. Love this!
We do this a lot! Every holiday I bring it the cookie cutters! Over the summer we did dinosaurs. My kids are older now and they still love it!
Wow super ideas for making pancakes. This will be definitely fun to make.
It must be so fun making them. Sometimes it’s the process of making the food that I look for. The kids are going to love this!
Oh, those are so cute! I am going to make some of these for the 3 year old. I plan to add some food coloring to make them red and green too!
This is a fun idea and I’m going to do that this year for my kids. I will also add some red and green sprinkle mix too. I did that at Valentine’s day and it made the pancakes festive. I used chocolate flavored sprinkles so you got a hint of chocolate but it wasn’t overpowering like making chocolate chip pancakes.
What a super cute idea for pancakes! I will definitely keep this in mind when we get close to Christmas time.
Omg what an amazing idea!!! I can’t wait to bust out the old cookie cutters and use them with my pancakes !!
What a tasty treat! I might have to do this during the holidays. We love pancakes.
I never thought about making pancakes into shapes, but I guess those cutters would work, and they will be a change from always having cookies.
This is such a fun idea. I can’t wait to make this recipe for when my nieces and nephews come over.
Those pancakes look amazing and the shapes are a lot of fun for any time of year. I would love to make thes for a family brunch or weekend meal
We did this recently with cookie cutters and it was so fun! I need to do it around christmas with the christmas ones