Snowflake Pancakes with Blueberries
Submitted by Theo
Overnight yeasted buttermilk pancakes with blueberries. Mix the batter before bed, stir in berries in the morning, and cook the fluffiest pancakes you’ve ever had.
YIELD
2 servingsPREP
20 minCOOK
15 minREADY
8 hrsThese are not your regular Sunday morning pancakes.
The batter rises overnight in the fridge, thanks to yeast working alongside baking soda and baking powder. By morning, it’s doubled in size, bubbly, and tangy from the buttermilk fermentation.
Stir in a cup of blueberries, give it a gentle stir down, and cook them in a fry pan over medium heat.
The result is a pancake with more complexity and chew than any quick-mix version could dream of, with pockets of burst blueberry running through every bite.
The batter keeps in the fridge for a week, so you can have fresh pancakes all week long.
Pro Tips
- Use a container twice the size of your batter. It doubles overnight and will overflow if you don’t give it room.
- Stir the batter down gently in the morning. You want to deflate it a bit but keep some of those air bubbles for fluffy pancakes.
- Don’t panic if black specks appear after a few days in the fridge. It’s just harmless yeast mold. Stir them right in.
Ingredients
Directions
Soften yeast in warm water (If using a yeast cake, water should be 80. Dry yeast has better results if the water is heated from 105 to 115.)
In a separate container mix together buttermilk, baking soda, sugar and salt.
Add to this the softened yeast.
Sift flour and baking powder together and add, with the oil, to the buttermilk mixture.
Mix well. Fold in the eggs.
Place in refrigerator overnight in a container large enough to allow the batter to double in bulk.
In the morning add the blueberries to the dough and stir down.
Cook in a fry pan over medium heat and serve.
This recipe will keep in a refrigerator for a week or more.
If black specks appear in the batter, just stir them in. They are just the yeast mold and do no harm.
Comments
Four cups of flour, a quart of buttermilk, plus all of the other ingredients...and this is only supposed to make 2 servings??? They must be HUGE servings!