Make your own Pancakes

We eat a lot of pancakes in this house! 

"Cancakes" are one of Alex's favorite breakfasts and he loves to sit on the counter,  help me mix up the batter and then me cook them. 

I always use this recipe as the base but we love to add in all sorts of things in them. (Bananas, Chocolate, Coconut, Cinnamon Roll and mixes of all of those!)

So when my brother, sister-in-law, and her brother came to visit, I decided to put out a little bit of everything and let people make their own pancakes! 

Even with six basic ingredients, the possibilities are endless! 

(Note: for cinnamon roll mixture melt 2-3 tbsp butter in a bowl. Add in 2 tbsp brown sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon. Mix together.)

Then let people start creating!

Then on the table have out a bunch of toppings--jams, syrup, butters, powdered sugar etc! 

It is a super easy, good-for-a-crowd kind of breakfast!

We were so busy eating I forgot to snap a picture of the finished product!

Blueberry Peach No-Churn Ice Cream

 Next up is Ice Cream! (See the recipes for blueberry buckle and blueberry muffins here and here.) This summer I really wanted to make ice cream, but I didn't really want to have to buy an ice cream maker...I kept my eyes open for a good deal on one, but couldn't find anything I liked, so I was super happy to find a recipe for ice cream that took out that step! It was from a Woman's Day magazine and took no time to make at all! The magazine had a couple of different options, but I had just been blueberry picking and had a bunch of peaches on hand so I decided to make blueberry peach ice cream!




You need:
2 cups very cold heavy cream
1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
6-7 medium peaches
handful of blueberries
blueberry jam

• cut up peaches and put in blender to puree
• using a mixer, beat cream, condensed milk, and vanilla in a bowl until stiff peaks form.
• Mix peach puree in
• Spoon half the mixture into a freezer safe container. Spoon a spoonful or two of blueberry jam and the blueberries on top and then swirl in. Add in the rest of peach mixture and repeat with the blueberry jam and blueberries.
• Freeze for at least 4 hours. It makes a ton! 
• Eat up! 

 Alex enjoyed it! But I think he enjoyed the cone more! ;)

Blueberry Buckle

After a fun blueberry picking trip I had lots of blueberries to use!

This was actually how I finished up the rest of my blueberries...by making Blueberry Buckle. Basically a coffee cake but with blueberries! I think I may have in the past eaten it as a dessert, but it makes a great breakfast too! :) This is a favorite family recipe! I remember making this for my grandpa after going blueberry picking one time. fun times.

You need:
1/2 cup butter, soften
2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup milk
5 cups blueberries (I used 4 cups and that was plenty!)

for the streusel topping:
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup flour
6 Tbs butter

• Heat oven to 350
• butter/flour a 10 inch round pan (or springform pan)
• sift together flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl
• cream butter and sugar for 3 minutes, then add egg and vanilla
• alternate adding flour mixture and milk (start and end with flour)
• fold in blueberries
• pour batter into pan
• for streusel--mix dry ingredients together. cut in butter until fine crumbs form. Using hands, squeeze together mixture to form large clumps
• Sprinkle topping on top of batter
• bake for 60-70 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean and streusel is light brown
• ENJOY!

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