Gingerbread Pancakes

Dry ingredients:
3/4 c whole wheat flour
1/4 cup white flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3 Tbs brown sugar
1/2 tsp Ginger
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp ground clove

Wet ingredients:
3/4 cup milk
1 large egg
2 Tbs oil

Directions:
Mix dry and wet separately, then mix together just until blended.
Cook then top with syrup or warm peach or apple pie filling. We like it topped with peach pie filling and powdered sugar!
Makes 8-10 pancakes

An extra Healthier Version:
use all whole wheat flour, replace brown sugar with molasses, use skim milk or water, 2 egg whites instead of 1 whole egg and replace oil with 2 Tbs unsweetened apple sauce.

TIPS:
my sister-in-law Natalie made this for Trenton for Christmas one year. She packaged up all the dry ingredients together (she doubled the recipe) and then gave him a jar of her homemade peach pie filling. It was AMAZING! Perfect Christmas gift for someone.

German Pancakes or "Couches"

 

6 eggs

1 cup milk

1 cup flour

1/4 tsp salt

4 Tbls butter

 Put the butter in a 9x13in pan and place in the over while the oven preheats to 450. You want the pan hot and the butter melted and sizzling.

While thats preheating and melting, mix the eggs, milk, flour, and salt together. Then pour in the pan over the melted butter.  Cook for 18-20 min. The pancakes will rise and bubble up to look like a couch. Thats why we call them "couches". 

Serve with syrup or jam and powder sugar. We have these almost once a week for dinner. Its my, "I dont' know what to make for dinner" recipe.