Sweet Potato Pancakes

You HAVE to try these pancakes!  I think we've had pancakes every Sunday since we moved into our new house.  We have a Wolf cooktop with a griddle, so it's a great excuse to make pancakes!  We rotate between buttermilk, blueberry, and sweet potato pancakes.  We got the idea for this recipe from Deceptively Delicious.  

We use Bisquick because we can get it at Costco, but this recipe should work with any instant pancake mix.

2 cups Bisquick Mix

1 cup milk

2 eggs

1 Tbsp sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1 Tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup mashed sweet potato (1 sweet potato)

1/4 tsp cinnamon

Stir ingredients until blended.  Pour 1/4 cupfuls onto hot greased griddle (we set ours at 350 degrees).  Cook until edges are dry.  Turn; cook until golden.  Sweet potato pancakes will be a little darker than regular buttermilk pancakes.  

We usually try to have sweet potatoes for dinner one night during the week and just make an extra one for pancakes.   Sometimes we just buy one sweet potato and microwave it that morning.  I usually microwave it for 5 minutes, flip it over, and microwave it for 5 more minutes.  It pretty much cools off enough to add it to the batter when you mash it in a bowl.

You can see how well seasoned the griddle is.  We use it a lot more than we thought we would.  It's primary purpose is pancakes, but we also use it for premade burgers, turkey burgers, and salmon burgers (from Costco, of course).  We've also made sausages, fried eggs, bacon, and tilapia on it.  It works great!

Chris is a griddle pro now!

Ok, bottom line, you gotta try these pancakes!  How else are you going to get 5 servings of vegetables a day!

Sam actually likes sweet potato pancakes best of all.  We had them today and he ate three of them.  "More syrup, Mommy.  More syrup!"