Bacon Pancake Dippers

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups buttermilk
• 1/2 cup milk
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• 12 slices bacon
• maple syrup

Recipe

• 1 for pancake batter:.
• 2 in a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• 3 in a separate bowl, whisk room-temperature buttermilk, milk and eggs, vanilla extract and melted butter.
• 4 stir the wet mixture into the dry mixture until it’s just blended, being careful not to over stir the batter. you want your batter to remain fairly thick. set aside.
• 5 cook bacon according to package directions. you will want bacon on the crispy side.
• 6 it's easier if you put your batter into a squeeze bottle, but it's not necessary.
• 7 draw” the pancake batter in a long oval shape onto the griddle, a tiny bit bigger than your cooked bacon slices (it will expand, so be careful not to make them too large).
• 8 place a slice of cooked bacon in the center of each pancake, and gently press bacon into the batter. squirt more batter on top of each bacon slice, in a zig-zag pattern, so that you don’t end up overcooking the bacon when it touches the griddle.
• 9 cook each dipper until the batter bubbles up and then flip until golden brown.
• 10 serve the bacon pancake dippers with your favorite syrup and eat while hot.