Pancake Art - Materials and Equipment

If you like to make your pancake batter from scratch, you will need at least flour, butter/oil, eggs, and milk. Even if you like to resort to the ready 'made' pancake mixes you will still need the other necessary ingredients to fix the batter. Other needed items are a pan and a spatula. Yeah, a heat source would help out a lot as well! Grin.

For pouring dots, circles and lines, a squeeze bottle is ideal. By using different sized openings, you can adjust the width of the poured batter which allows for more intricate detailed creations.

Unfortunately, I still haven't found any step by step instructions or workshops, but even if you don't want to go through all the trouble of coming up with an originally shaped pancake, you can still resort to food color and dish up a unique treat.

The food color can be mixed in with the batter before baking. The same food color can also be used for painting the pancakes after they are baked. I am sure children, and grown ups too for that matter, would love doing that!

You would need different colors of natural food coloring and several brushes. Disposable cups, or small bowls will do fine holding the food color, but egg cartons make excellent 'paint trays' as well.

Enjoy your creativity and your meal! :-)