Recipe Swap: Banana Sour Cream Pancakes

The theme for this recipe swap was a celebrity recipe. I was excited when I got Jey's submission - Ina Garten's Banana Sour Cream Pancakes. Yum!

I was really hoping for pronounced sour cream and banana flavors but if I hadn't made these myself I wouldn't have known the sour cream was there. And the banana flavor was also non-existent, aside from the slices of banana on top. Don't get me wrong, these still tasted good, but for the effort of making pancakes from scratch I was hoping for better flavors. My batter was also a little thin and I didn't want to add more flour to thicken it up in case it threw off the other ratios.

I didn't realize just how many pancakes this would yield. I got about 24 medium-size pancakes. Thankfully pancakes freeze well so I have quite a few for another time.

Banana Sour Cream Pancakes
As seen on Jey of Cooking, slightly adapted from Ina Garten
Makes about 24 medium pancakes

1 1/2 cups flour
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 1/2 teaspoons Kosher salt
1/3 cup sour cream
3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon milk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Zest of 1 lemon
3 bananas, 2 diced, 1 sliced
Maple syrup, for serving

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. In a separate bowl, combine sour cream, milk, eggs, vanilla and lemon zest. Slowly add the dry mix to the wet ingredients and mix to combine, and then stir in bananas.

Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Spoon batter into the pan to make 3 or 4 pancakes and cook for 2-3 minutes. Flip and cook an additional minute. Continue, working in batches, until all batter is used.

Serve with sliced bananas and maple syrup.

Banana Sour Cream Pancakes

I had a bunch of bananas to use up so I went searching for banana recipes in some of my favorite blogs. This recipe for Banana Sour Cream Pancakes looked like a delicious Sunday breakfast.


I wish there had been a little more tang to the pancakes but overall they were delicious. I'll definitely make these again.

Pancakes

Today is Labor Day so we have the day off from work. SP and I slept in and then I made us some pancakes for breakfast before we went to the supermarket:


As usual, I had chocolate chip pancakes.

Pancakes

Sunday morning we had only 5 eggs and I needed 4 for dinner that night, so we had pancakes:


As usual, I made mine with chocolate chips.

Chocolate Chip Pancakes

This morning I made pancakes for breakfast.


As always, I cooked mine with chocolate chips. Yum!

Banana-Chocolate Chip Pancakes

I'm not sure how it happened but we're running dangerously low on staples. As in, we have no bread, only 2 eggs and no breakfast meats (among other, non-breakfast-related things). As we were falling asleep last night I asked SP how he felt about me experimenting with bananas in waffles or pancakes, since we had a few ripe bananas that needed to be used and plenty of pancake mix. He said that sounded good so this morning I made banana-chocolate chip pancakes that were quite delicious:


And just so you don't think everything I make is always fantastic, here's what I initially made:


That's the remnants of the banana waffles I tried to make. I'm not sure what happened, but when I opened the waffle iron the waffles had separated into two layers, one stuck to the top of the iron and the other stuck to the bottom. It smelled so good while it was cooking that I was sad it didn't work out, but it certainly was a funny sight.

Chocolate Chip Pancakes

SP and I were both in the mood for pancakes Saturday morning so I whipped up a batch of the chocolate chip variety:


I do love chocolate chip pancakes. A nice sweet way to start the day.