With a couple of ingredient changes, enjoy our new favorite family breakfast from Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Table Cookbook, and create your own delicious memories around the table!
Joanna Gaines’ Best Pancake Recipe
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Joanna Gaines’ Best Pancake Recipe
For several years now, our family has made breakfast together on either Saturday or Sunday morning.
Our go-to for the last several years has been my homemade french toast recipe with fresh fruit, but since discovering the Magnolia Table cookbook we have landed on a new favorite.
Joanna’s “Best-Ever Fluffy Pancakes.” After tailoring it to suit the ingredients I always have stocked in my fridge, I would have to say these are the best pancakes I have ever had.
The primary difference is that she includes buttermilk. I don’t typically keep buttermilk stocked in my fridge on a regular basis. I do, however, always have lemon juice and milk.
We made this recipe several times with buttermilk and many, many times since with my substitutions and they taste the same – amazing and delicious every time.
The other key is to let the mixture stand for 20 minutes as the instructions say. This allows it to thicken creating fluffier pancakes.
I am telling you. These pancakes are absolutely the best.
This month pick a weekend, get your kids to help mix the ingredients, set the table, write a list of 5 questions that each person has to answer, and enjoy The Best Pancakes.
You won’t be disappointed.
Bon appetit!
Need more breakfast ideas? Be sure to check out:
- 10 Easy Make Ahead Breakfast Ideas
- Slow Cooker Egg Casserole
- The BEST Cinnamon Rolls
- Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal
- Zucchini Carrot Cake Muffins
- Lemon Glazed Scones
- Smokey Ham and Cheese Egg Casserole
Joanna Gaines’ Best Pancake Recipe
First of all, be sure to check out my post on how to turn Joanna Gaines’ best pancakes into a boxed mix for quick and easy breakfasts!
Why not create your own mix so that it is easy to get out for breakfast? I created my own mix to make her pancakes that I store in the container below. The post includes printable instructions so you can just read right off of your “box.”
Check out how to make your own pancake mix for this recipe here!
Joanna Gaines’ Best Pancake Recipe
Zach and Caleb have become our expert pancake cooks!
And as you can see they are well-received by all!! Pancakes and pjs. Doesn’t get much better than that.

Joanna Gaines’ Best Pancake Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups white flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 3/4 c 1% milk (or dairy free substitute)
- 1 stick butter
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- Mix the ingredients lightly and let stand for 20 minutes.
- Once thickened pour ¼ c batter onto generously buttered griddle at 325F.
- Flip the pancake once bubbles appear.
Freezing Instructions
- Prepare as directed above. Wrap short stacks of pancakes tightly with plastic wrap and then aluminum foil. Freeze. Reheat in microwave when ready to serve.
Notes
Need more breakfast ideas? Be sure to check out:
- 10 Easy Make Ahead Breakfast Ideas
- Slow Cooker Egg Casserole
- The BEST Cinnamon Rolls
- Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal
- Zucchini Carrot Cake Muffins
- Lemon Glazed Scones
- Smokey Ham and Cheese Egg Casserole
If you give this recipe at try, then tag me @ahna_hammersnhugs or use the hashtag #hammersnhugs.
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