Make Rainbow Pancakes
Feeling a bit bored with your usual pancakes? Feel as if you could make something new? If you're wanting to create a more colorful breakfast, give rainbow pancakes a try. These festive treats are sure to put a smile on your family's face in the morning!
Contents
Ingredients
- Pancake mix (or make your own pancakes)
- Non-stick cooking spray
- Red, Orange, Purple, Blue, Yellow and Green food coloring (extra colors can be created by mixing pigments)
- Whipped cream topping (optional)
- Your choice of berries (optional)
Steps
- Prepare the pancake batter by following the directions on the box. Or the ingredient list in How to Make Pancakes if you are making your own pancakes.
- Divide the pancake batter (depending on how many you wish to make) into 6 small bowls.
- Color the pancake batters using the food coloring.
- Red: In bowl 1, drop in 4 drops of red food coloring and mix well.
- Yellow: In bowl 2, drop in 3 drops of yellow food coloring and mix well.
- Orange: In bowl 3, drop in 5 drops of red and 5 drops of yellow food coloring and mix well.
- Green: In bowl 4, drop in 4 drops of green food coloring and mix well.
- Blue: In bowl 5, drop in 4 drops of blue food coloring and mix well.
- Purple: In bowl 6, drop in 5 drops of blue and 5 drops of red food coloring and mix well.
- Preheat a griddle on medium-low heat.
- Spray cooking spray on the pan to prevent the pancakes from sticking. Keeping the heat medium-low prevents the pancakes from cooking too fast and keeps them from turning brown. Remember, you want rainbow pancakes, not brown!
- Pour a cup full of batter into the griddle or frying pan and cook until ready to flip. You should see lots of bubbles on the top and be able to handle the bottom of the pancake without batter flowing everywhere into the pan. That is how you know when to flip.
- Cook on the other side for about 1 minute and place on a plate.
- Continue with the other colour batters until you have all of the pancakes cooked.
- Stack your pancakes however you like. Serve and enjoy!
Tips
- Put butter on the pancakes for a great taste.
- Choose your choice of toppings! From fruit to whipped cream, there are many things you can top these colourful cakes with!
- To remember the colors and order of the rainbow's spectrum, recall the famous, but mythical physicist, Roy G. Biv (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet).
- An easier method of remembering the order of the rainbow's colours is Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.
- Add flavorful extracts to make fruity flavored pancakes.
- Make a similar waffles by adding an egg to the mix and milk for consistency.
- Add toppings of contrast colors to make the pancakes appear rainbow colored. For example, a green pancake with strawberries as toppings or an orange pancake with blueberries as toppings.
Warnings
- Pancake batter can pop while you are cooking, and you can burn your skin. Be careful.
Things You'll Need
- Bowl for preparing batter
- 6 small bowls for colouring the batter
- Mixing implement
- Griddle/frying pan
- Cup (standard size)
- Spatula for flipping
- Plate for stacking pancakes
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