The World's Fluffiest Pancake Recipe

 
Pancakes are probably my second favorite breakfast food that I never eat, right up there behind French Toast. I love them.  I love their soft, doughy middles covered in sweet syrup.  But I only eat them once in a blue moon, due to the amount of calories and carbs behind all of their delicious goodness.  

When I do allow myself a pancake or two, I always make this recipe which was in Saveur Magazine's breakfast issue a few years back. This recipe promised to be light and fluffy pancakes and employs two unusual ingredients:  yogurt and seltzer water. I had to try it.

The result is a pancake that is so high and light, it is almost like a chiffon cake.  But be careful.  If you work with a heavy hand, these will be dense and hard to cook through.  And we don't want that, now, do we? Not when you're about to eat all of those delicious, fluffy, syrupy calories.

Syrupy calories... mmmm.....

Fluffy Blueberry Pancakes

Combine 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon fine salt.

  

Combine 1 cup yogurt with 2 teaspoons baking powder.

 

Let rest for 10 minutes until it looks like this:
 

Combine dry ingredients with yogurt mixture.
 

Add 2 lightly beaten eggs and 1/2 cup seltzer water or club soda.

Let rest for ten minutes.

 

Spoon two 1/4-cup portions batter into a nonstick skillet over medium high heat and cook for 2 minutes. Press a handful of blueberries into the batter and then flip! 
 

Mmm... pancakes.
 

Mmmm... fluffy pancakes...
 

Fluffy Blueberry Pancakes adapted from Saveur Magazine

2 cups flour
2 tsp. sugar
1⁄2 tsp. fine salt
1 cup yogurt
2 tsp. baking soda
1⁄2 cup seltzer water or club soda
2 eggs, lightly beaten
6 tbsp. unsalted butter, plus more to taste
3 cups fresh blueberries
Confectioners' sugar
Maple syrup

Place a sieve over a large bowl and sift together the flour, sugar, and salt. In a large bowl, stir together the yogurt and baking soda; let sit for 10 minutes. Add the yogurt mixture, seltzer, and eggs to the flour mixture and whisk until just combined. Let batter rest for 10 minutes.

Heat 1 tbsp. butter in a 12" nonstick skillet over medium heat. Working in 6 batches, spoon 2 portions of batter (about 1⁄4 cup each) into skillet, gently spreading out each portion of batter with the bottom of a spoon or a measuring cup to make disks about 4 1⁄2" in diameter. Cook pancakes until bubbles begin to form around edges, about 2 minutes. Top each pancake with 1⁄4 cup blueberries, press down on them gently with a spoon, flip each pancake with a spatula, and cook until golden brown, about 2 minutes more. (Alternatively, for "silver dollar" pancakes, spoon 1 heaping tbsp. batter into the skillet for each pancake and top with 1 tbsp. blueberries.) Transfer pancakes to a paper towel–lined baking sheet and cover with a towel to keep warm. Wipe out skillet and repeat process with remaining butter, batter, and blueberries to make 12 pancakes in all. Dust with confectioners' sugar and serve with butter and maple syrup.

 

Comments

[Katrina]

That last photo just did me in! I will have to try these--sometime when I remember to get some seltzer water!

[grace]

pancakes are #2 for me as well, but they fall behind fresh cinnamon rolls. incidentally, i suspect their appeal has a lot to do with the pools of maple syrup i add... :)

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Cool pancakes, I love pancakes with that size. Wow yummy.

[Elizabeth - Cake or Death]

Oh, those crazy kids at Saveur. Seltzer water in pancakes. What will they think of next?

[Katie @ Cozydelicious]

I have made a lot of panckaes in my life (I used to cook at a B+B, so I mean A LOT). But never, ever have a made a pancake that looked as good as yours! So fluffy and oozing with blue juices. Amazing. Next time I make panckaes I am trying this recipe!

[Jessie]

holy moly I must bookmark this one for the future. I make pancakes often on the weekends and this is something I must try asap

[Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction]

Yum... Your pancakes look beautiful. Love the picture at the top.

[Stacie]

I am going to have to try these sometime soon for breakfast. We all love pancakes in this house.

[Carolina]

What cute lil pancakes!

[steph (whisk/spoon)]

shoooot-- thaose look so good! pancakes are my favorite breakfast!! i've never seen a recipe with seltzer, but makes perfect sense...i must remember to try these!

[Tracey]

Blueberry pancakes? Yes, please!! I rarely eat pancakes either but not because of the calories - I'm just lazy. These look like they're worth the effort though!

[Eliana]

YUM-O is all I can say :)

[smilinggreenmom]

These look so amazing I feel like I could gobble them up right through the screen LOL! Our family LOVES pancakes and we just tried yeterday in fact, Kamut Khorasan Wheat pancakes and they were AWESOME!! Now - I am such a recipe lover - yours might just be next on our list of "must try's" :D Thanks for sharing it w us!

[Ashley]

Ooo fun I'll have to try these!

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These look amazing!!! I just have to try them this weekend! thanks so much for sharing

[Will]

Everyone says they look so good but has anyone actually tried this recipe? Well I did. Terrible. So dense. Fail. And BTW your illustrated interpretation of the original instructions was not very faithful. You say to "Combine dry ingredients with yogurt mixture" then "Add 2 lightly beaten eggs and 1/2 cup seltzer water or club soda" then "Let rest for ten minutes." This is very different from "Add the yogurt mixture, seltzer, and eggs to the flour mixture and whisk until just combined. Let batter rest for 10 minutes." Even if mixing the yogurt with the flower first as you suggested, or to combine all wet with all dry as in the original, would have made any difference, you've already wasted enough of my time. I tried the Pancakes I recipe at Allrecipies (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/pancakes-i/Detail.aspx) with half soda water and half milk and got my fix, they turned out super fluffy (and look better too).

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