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Making Pancake Letters: Let your preschooler cook breakfast!

24 February 2010 8 Comments

My son loves being a helper and was thrilled when he got to make lunch for us today! We are eating pancakes – yummy! How fun is it to mix breakfast with learning our letters! We have a set of cookie cutters that are in the shapes of capital letters (thanks Laney). Here is a tip that we use to decrease the likelihood of massive pancake batter spills while using cookie cutters to make pancakes in particular shapes, maybe it will help you!

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We used a dry pancake mix as it is easier for Z to measure out and pour with fewer ingredients to deal with. He loved pouring the mix, the milk and breaking the egg!

Once the batter was mixed I lined a pint canning jar with a sandwich baggie. We then filled the bag with batter and sealed the top of the bag. This really saves on cleanup!

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Then we took our cookie cutters and dipped them into butter to grease both sides, laid them on a hot griddle. Cut the corner out of the baggie of pancake batter and filled the cookie cutters.

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I should have been a bit more patient getting the letter pancakes out, I cracked a few, but they were still great for dipping in maple syrup! Yummy!

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For other breakfast ideas, check out these posts:

Homemade Granola Bars

Freezable Breakfast Burritos

Peanut Butter & Banana Pancake Sandwiches

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8 Comments »

Shirley said:

This is a really cool idea!
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# 24 February 2010 at 10:12 pm

Kiy said:

I so want to do this. My daughter (3 years) loves loves loves to help in the kitchen. I know she’d love to squeeze out these pancakes, but I so worry about her getting burned on the pan and/or the stove (sadly, we have an electric flat top – I miss my gas!). Can you share how you do this to lessen the chance of burns – or is your little guy older?

Thanks, I just adore your fun ideas!
Kiy
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# 25 February 2010 at 12:27 pm

admin said:

We use a flat griddle over our electric cooktop – it is the kind that cools really quickly, the edges of it don’t get hot (unfortunately if you want evenly cooked pancakes). I stand right next to my son (age 2) as he squeezes. I have also done this with my three year old. Because it is in the bag already, I don’t need to focus on anything but them when they are “cooking”. After he squeezes out the batter he is done helping. I do the flipping on my own

# 25 February 2010 at 1:35 pm

Kiy said:

Thank you. Hmmm, I didn’t know I could put a flat griddle on my electric cooktop. Will have to look into that. I may have to start slow, but now’s you’ve given me the courage to even think about it! Thanks again, Kiy
Kiy´s last blog ..DC Trip

# 25 February 2010 at 5:07 pm

admin said:

It is just a metal one, not the kind you plug in – we found ours for ten bucks at Walmart. Hope you enjoy cooking with your youngster.

# 25 February 2010 at 5:20 pm

Jenny, Home is Where said:

wow, that looks like so much fun, and you made it look so easy. Normally that would be something I would avoid, because of mess, but now I think I will give it a try!

# 28 February 2010 at 9:08 pm

Jenna said:

Awesome idea!! I love this! Thanks, Rachel!

# 1 March 2010 at 1:00 pm

Charlotte said:

I just discovered your blog and wanted to just say hello and how much I love your posts! This seems like such a fun idea especially given that I have a 3 year old son that LOVES to help mommy in the kitchen. I will definitely have to try this out sometime as I know that he will just eat this up! (literally, ha!)

# 2 March 2010 at 7:01 pm