Tie Dye Pancakes

What?

What did that title say?

Did it say tie dye pancakes? Blech! Who wants to eat tie dye? That doesn’t sound appetizing.

Well. Not to worry. These pancakes really don’t use tie dye. They are merely colored by food coloring. Phew!

The pancakes are colorful and way fun to make for breakfast. Kids love making and eating these little fellas.

They are super easy to make. First, you’ve gotta make sure that your grandkids are still wearing their pajamas. It’s lots of fun to wear your pjs while cooking! (Notice that my little granddaughter has a purple cast on her arm? She fell off the swings at her cousin’s house. But that didn’t stop her at all!)

Next, simply make the pancake batter like you normally do. Then, pour the batter into several bowls.

Squeeze one or two drops of food coloring into the bowls. Stir until the color is all mixed in.

Then, using a spoon, drop the batter onto a hot griddle. Drop several colors all together for each individual pancake.

Cook the pancakes on one side. Then flip and cook on the other side. When they are done, serve them to your hungry family.

In addition to pouring syrup on our pancakes, we like to spread butter on them and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Yum!

When our kids were little, I would make smilie face pancakes. I would pour batter for the eyes and the smile and let them cook for a while. Then, I’d pour batter around them to form the face. When I’d flip the pancakes, the eyes and mouth were darker brown than the rest of the face. The kids loved them.

Well. With my grandkids and with this colored pancake batter, I used the green batter for the eyes and the mouth and regular batter for the face.

Look really close at the smilie face. Do you see nostrils? I didn’t try to make nostrils. The batter didn’t completely fill in as I made the face. It left two holes in just the right spot for nostrils. We got a kick out of that!

Instead of putting the batter in bowls, you could put it in plastic squeeze bottles. I only had two and I didn’t want to cut the holes bigger. And, I didn’t get a chance to buy others before my grandkids came to spend the weekend. But, I think that next time I would make sure I had the squeeze bottles. I think that it would be much easier for grandkids to make the pancakes.

You could also make tie dye waffles. I think those would turn out great, too.