Why make your own homemade pancake mix, when buying it at the store is easy and relatively cheap? One reason may be that you're trying to reduce the amount of preservatives or other unnecessary added ingredients of such premade products.
Another reason may be that you are tucked into your home on a Saturday morning and you're really feelin' some quick, no fuss pancakes. Having this mix on hand - or whipping it up on the fly - can have fluffy pancakes on your plate in 10 minutes or less.
This pancake mix uses 6 simple ingredients, most or all of which may already be in your pantry. When you're ready to make pancakes, just add water, heat up your skillet, and you're in business. Check out customwater.com to gather the water bottles you need for this recipe and others.
You can add any of your favorite additions such as chocolate chips, nuts, dried or fresh fruit, or even flavored extracts. This is such a handy mix to have on hand in your kitchen! Enjoy!
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Homemade Just Add Water Pancake Mix
- Total Time: 10 mins
- Yield: 35 pancakes 1x
Ingredients
- ¾ cup nonfat dry milk powder
- 4 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
- 2 TBS baking powder
- 1 TBS baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together. Store in an airtight container in a cool, dry place. Discard when the expiration date on the milk powder has passed.
- To make pancakes, melt a small amount of butter (or use cooking spray) on a griddle or on a nonstick skillet over medium heat.
- Combine 1 cup of dry mix with ¾ cup of water and ½ tsp vanilla extract (optional) and stir until combined. Pour a small amount of mix (about ¼ cup) or enough to create 4-5 inch pancakes into the skillet. (you'll probably get around 5-7 small pancakes from this amount of mix)
- If using any additions such as chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, etc, sprinkle them onto each pancake.
- When bubbles form on the surface, flip pancakes over and cook 1-2 minutes more.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 5 mins
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Wilma Lambrechts
Hi Erin
I would like to sell it at Markets/Fair. I am in South Africa.
How much pancakes can you get out of one batch. One cup of mix makes 5 - 7 small pancakes, so if I work on 5 larger pancakes, then I can make 20 pancakes out of 1 batch. Am I correct by saying that or am I totally wrong. Not good at maths though. LOL! Please advise. Thanks
Holly Sapp
How long can this be stored for?
Erin
I'm so sorry it's taken me a while to get to this comment - I have been very ill! When stored in an airtight container in a cool place, refer to the expiration dates on your baking powder and dry milk powder. When they expire, toss the mix!
Sara
I love keeping a container of this around for weekend pancakes! Great recipe!
PJ
I want to make these but was wondering if you can sub the powered milk with buttermilk powder. The family loves buttermilk pancakes and I'd love to make this ahead and have it on hand when we're in a hurry. Thank you for your feedback.
Erin
That should be fine, though I have not tried it. Usually when substituting liquid buttermilk for liquid milk, you reduce the baking powder by 2tsp and increase the baking soda by 1/2tsp for every cup of milk, but I'm not sure how that translates when using the dry product! You could try using a little less powder and a little more soda if you use buttermilk powder and that should work fine - pancakes are, thankfully, pretty forgiving! Good luck!
Kris
I was looking to use up some powdered milk and this did the trick. I measured everything perfectly because I wanted the awesome pancakes I read about in the reviews. They’re not particularly fluffy, and the taste isn’t quite where I want it. I’m going to finish making them, as I used a lot of flour for these, but I’m going to keep on tweaking. This was a good starting point for me! Thank you for that.
Erin
HI Kris! Thank you for your feedback! For your next batches, try this: After mixing the batter, let it rest for a good 5 minutes. The batter will start to look a little light and foamy - this is what you want. Don't stir it after this happens, just lightly scoop out the amount you want per pancake. That'll keep your pancakes light and fluffy. Hope this helps!
Ashley L
I haven't tried this yet, just stumbled upon this on pintrest, but looling forward to trying this. Suggestion, if you recommend letting the batter sit for 5 minutes before using, would you add that to your instructions please? Also I guess I will experiment with it but if I use milk, instead of milk powder or water should it turn out similar?
Erin
I haven't tried using liquid milk myself, so I can't comment for sure if that will work out. let me know if you try it out!
Sara
I was wondering if anyone tried this in a mug pancake in the microwave and if so how did you measure
Sarah
Also the "Rate this recipe" feature seems to be broken, or I'd give ya 5 stars!
Erin
Thanks so much!! I'm happy they worked so well for you!
Sarah
Added some cinnamon and nutmeg to the mix as it's our thing, but we were shocked at how fluffy these suckers are! Thanks so muc. 🙂
Kathy
How much butter/oil would you add to 1 cup mix to make waffles?
Sarah
Would dry buttermilk powder work instead of the dry milk powder?
Erin
I haven't tried it myself - maybe you could scale down the recipe to just make a small batch to test it out first? Let me know how it turns out if you give it a whirl!
Chonsie
Did you try this? I was wanting to do the same.
Erin
I haven't used this recipe to make anything but pancakes, but maybe you'd need to add an egg? It's a recipe ripe for experimentation!