Alternative Uses For Pancake Mix

Alternative Uses For Pancake Mix

You may have extra pancake mix laying around and don’t know what else you can do with it.  Here are a few ideas:

• Funnel Cakes: Simply mix up the batter with water and place it in a pastry bag or a plastic zipper bag and cut the tip off so you can squeeze the batter into the oil.

• Shortbread: Just add sugar and cream.

• Dumplings or topping for a pot pie: Add milk to mix.

• Pancake mix basically consists of flour, baking soda, salt and sometimes dried milk so you may exchange pancake mix for any recipe that calls slightly sweet flour.

• It is also the base for quick breads, and pizza crust.

Snickerdoodle Cookies (Made With Pancake Mix)

Here is a nice cookie recipe using your leftover pancake mix.  See my earlier post on alternative uses for pancake mix.

 Ingredients:

• 3 cups dry pancake mix
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups of sugar plus 2 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions:

Cream 1 1/2 cups sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs into bowl.  Stir in pancake mix with a spoon just until blended. Refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour.  Shape dough into one inch balls.  Combine 2 tbsp sugar and cinnamon into a bowl. Roll dough balls in the cinnamon and sugar mixture to coat them.  Place coated dough balls 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet.  Bake 8-10 minutes at 400 degrees.  Allow to cool, then serve.

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