Red Velvet Pancakes
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I saw this recipe in The Pioneer Woman Cooks A Year of Holidays and had to make it. The combo of pancakes with red velvet cake sounded amazing. She has this as a Valentine’s recipe, but I thought it might make a fun Christmas breakfast. We tried it out and I’m sorry to tell you it was just ok. It was good, but it didn’t knock my socks off and it didn’t really taste like red velvet cake. Mine don’t look very red because I am allergic to red dye, so I used natural food coloring which just isn’t as vivid (or as toxic!) as the traditional kind. We did not make the frosting, which in retrospect might have been a mistake, but I just couldn’t face pancakes without real maple syrup. It’s definitely something fun and different to make for Christmas breakfast.
- Pancakes:
- 3 cups + 2 tbsp cake flour
- 3 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1½ tsp cocoa powder
- 1½ cups milk
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 eggs
- 4 tbsp melted butter
- 2-4 tsp red food coloring
- Icing:
- 2½ cups powdered sugar
- dash of salt
- 4 tbsp melted butter
- ¼ cup buttermilk
- ¼ cup whole milk
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- Mix all pancake ingredients together and pour into pancakes on a hot buttered griddle. Makes about 20 medium pancakes
- Mix icing ingredients together and pour over pancakes when serving.
I saw this recipe in The Pioneer Woman Cooks A Year of Holidays and had to make it. The combo of pancakes with red velvet cake sounded amazing. She has this as a Valentine’s recipe, but I thought it might make a fun Christmas breakfast. We tried it out and I’m sorry to tell you … Read more
