Week 29 - They're always after me lucky pancakes!

So now that we're weeks past St. Patrick's Day, I finally remembered an Irish- and kid-inspired recipe I came up with.  Lucky Charms Pancakes!  Okay, so people in Ireland would probably be very upset with me for calling this Irish-inspired, but I say it tongue in cheek.

In this recipe, I replaced half the flour with crushed oat cereal (no marshmallows please) and I think it added a little to the texture of the pancake.  They turned out very light and fluffy.  Since the oat cereal already has a little sugar in it, you can cut down on the sugar in the recipe if you like. Jó étvágyat!

Lucky Charms Pancakes
Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup crush Lucky Charms cereal (the oats part, separate out the marshmallows)
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2 eggs, separated
2 cups buttermilk
4 tablespoons melted butter, plus more to coat the griddle
1 cup of Lucky Charms marshmallows

Directions
1. First, get a box of Lucky Charms cereal, separate out the oat cereal from the marshmallows.  Great job for little ones, or husbands.  Just make sure you have enough cereal because it's almost guaranteed that some of the marshmallows will "disappear."  My husband tried to sneak a couple to my daughter without my noticing.  It wasn't too hard to figure out considering her mouth turned blue from a marshmallow!  Caught ya!

2. Put the cereal, sans marshmallows, in to a food processor and grind until it is about the consistency of flour.

Before

After

3. Combine, flour, crushed cereal, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar in to a bowl and combine.
4.  Whisk egg whites and buttermilk in a bowl.
5.  In a separate bowl whisk together the egg yolks and melted butter
6.  Combine the egg white and egg yolk mixtures together, then add to the flour mixture.
7.  Now, hever you could choose to proceed in one of two ways:
    a.  Ladle pancake batter onto a griddle/pan over medium high heat.  Sprinkle marshmallows on the pancakes. 

Looks pretty cool.  The marshmallows melt and leave colorful rainbow craters.

    b.  Mix the marshmallows into the batter and ladle onto a griddle/pan over medium high heat (do this right before cooking, otherwise the marshmallows may begin to melt).

Not as colorful when you mix in the marshmallows, but you do get pockets of yummy marshmallows when you bite in to these.  This was my husband's preferred way of making these.

8. Let cook for 2-3 minutes or until bubbles form around the edges, flip, and cook for an additional 2-3 minutes.  Serve with syrup.