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!
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.
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!
If you are looking for Alphabet Cutters, here’s a nice set!
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For other breakfast ideas, check out these posts:
Peanut Butter & Banana Pancake Sandwiches
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this is great! Mine dont even become round… this is much better 🙂
What a fun idea! I think that even older kids would love to make some of those for breakfast. I host a recipe swap every week and I’d love for you to come by and show off a recipe or two. Have a blessed day 🙂
Katie
We love this, we’ll be linking up on our DIY Literacy Projects. Stop by and visit and grab our “featured” button. Thanks for sharing.
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!)
Awesome idea!! I love this! Thanks, Rachel!
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!
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
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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.
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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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 🙂
This is a really cool idea!
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