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The Fluffiest Pancakes

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 At our home, weekends are for good food. We choose to start our weekend off right nearly every Saturday with a hearty home cooked breakfast. This weekend we challenged ourselves to make some fluffy flapjacks. The result was not only some pretty awesomely fluffy cakes at 3/4 inches thick, but some mightily moist and delicious ones too. Not only do these pancakes boast sky high stacking ability, they are full of protein, sugar free, and low calorie.
Gather your ingredients.
The use of Greek yogurt makes it possible to check off all of these boxes. I use Chobani Greek yogurt because it has a whopping 22 grams of protein per serving and makes the pancakes super moist. I will even go as far as saying you wont need too much syrup on top, and this is coming from a heavy handed pourer.  Also, the acidity in the yogurt reacts with the baking soda to puff these babies up and give them their impressive fluff.
Just enough whole wheat to keep you full until lunch.
To give these pancakes extra rib sticking super powers, I like to use whole wheat flour. Now, everyone knows an entirely whole wheat pancake would go down the hatch like a load of bricks, and would soak up entirely too much syrup, so I only use 1/3 whole wheat flour to regular flour. I have also been known to play around with quinoa and almond flour which don’t seem to completely wreck the yum factor of this recipe.
Did you know these funky whisks making whipping eggs by hand super easy and quick?
Another top secret tip which we used in our baking today is to whip your egg whites to stiff peaks. My grandmother passed this suggestion along to me so I had to give it a try and I must say granny was right! I hope to some day pass this vital information on to my own grandchildren. Just make sure if you go to all of the work to whip your whites, you fold the whites into the batter rather than stir. We need to be gently with all of that air!
Fold not stir!
Once we doctored our batter up just how we wanted it, we whipped out the griddle and started cooking. This morning we had one scary hangry toddler nipping at our heals so the griddle was a must to get those pancakes done ASAP. If you have a crowed of your own to cook for, this is a great option.
We are fluffy NOT fat.

After our fluffsters came off the grill we slathered them up with our favorite toppings. My go to pancake accessories at the moment are almond butter and pure maple syrup. My kids couldn’t fathom eating their pancakes without loads of chocolate chips cooked inside and a puddle of syrup on their plate. Another good reason to find a recipe without extra sugar in the batter.

Needless to say we enjoyed our breakfast today and we hope you can make your own satisfyingly fluffy pancakes as well!

 

 

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Extra Fluffy Pancakes

Servings 8 pancakes
Calories 120 kcal

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 eggs separated
  • 3/4 cup Greek yogurt
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  1. Mix all dry ingredients in a large bowl.

  2. Combine Greek yogurt, vanilla and egg yolks in a medium bowl.

  3. Stir Greek yogurt mixture into the dry ingredients.

  4. Whip egg whites in medium bowl until you can form stiff peaks. Fold the egg whites into the batter.


  5. Cook over medium heat. We like to grease our pan with butter but you can use any oil of your choice. 

  6. The pancakes are ready to flip when small air holes begin to form in the batter.

  7. Enjoy with your favorite toppings!