Pamela’s Products Produces Perfect Pancakes and Other Delicious Products

Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day.  Especially to a breakfast-fiend like me.  I’m not talking just cereal with a splash of almond milk.  I mean a real, hearty breakfast.  What’s the point of breakfast if it isn’t filling?

When I had to go gluten-free, most of my homemade breakfasts consisted of eggs.  Now, I like eggs as much as the next person, but after awhile, you need variety.  Since pancakes and waffles are not always an option for the gluten-free breakfast lover, unless you want to pay an arm and a leg for a mix, I was regulated to frozen waffles, which didn’t wow me.  Or toast…which is kind of…boring.  Not meant for a breakfast diva, like myself.

Then, one day, my roommate surprised me with a pack of Pamela’s Products Baking & Pancake Mix.  Now, I love Pamela’s Products’ cookies.  I’ve had three different varieties of them (and sadly have only blogged on one, but will remedy that soon enough).  This line of gluten-free goodies has wowed me from the moment I put a double dark chocolate cookie into my mouth instead of a slice of cake at a party.  So…here was a chance not only to enjoy another product from this reliable brand, but also to have one of my most favorite breakfasts ever…PANCAKES!!  Gluten-free pancakes.  My breakfast suddenly gave me a lot more to look forward to.

Making Pamela’s pancakes is not a difficult task.  One cup of mix, 3/4 cup of water, 1 egg…mix.  Make sure the mix isn’t runny or your pancakes won’t be fluffy.  Place on skillet.  Cook.

I grew up in the age of my mom’s “Best Ever Pancakes,” which are made from scratch.  When I moved out and on my own, it was mixes in a box from Fiber One or Bisquik.  What could possibly live up to that, right?

Pamela’s Products Baking & Pancake Mix.  That’s what!  No joke.  They cook up really fluffy.  And, despite not having a bit of milk in them, taste like a buttermilk pancake.  No joke.  They are fantastic.  Light, fluffy, and packed with flavor.  The recipe on the back cooks up six amazing pancakes, and the good news is…they reheat and taste just as good the next morning.  Most of the time, reheated pancakes seem a bit stiff.  Not these.  Soft and delicious right out of the microwave, almost as if they were just flipped off the skillet and drizzled with some (gluten-free) maple syrup.

But why limit yourself to just pancakes when you clearly have a mix that can go beyond that?

My birthday was coming up and, since I had to go gluten-free, I know a birthday dessert can be a bit of a bear for others to deal with.  I took it upon myself to make my own birthday treat (although I didn’t get a candle or the ‘Happy Birthday’ song to go with it, but alas…) for my after-dinner with friends and family event.  Cake was an option, but cake has never really been my favorite dessert in the world.  Mostly because I am not a frosting person and without frosting, most cakes tend to be lacking something.  So…I went for something I had been craving since going gluten-free…and one of my favorite desserts in the world:

Strawberry shortcake.

The shortcake part was the difficult part.  But what I decided to do was use a bit of Pamela’s Products Baking & Pancake Mix and make some drop biscuits that could be sliced and piled high with fresh (organic) strawberries and dollops of Cool Whip.  What could be more amazing than that?  So I set myself to the task the night before, baking up drop biscuits and having my roommate, Cathy, and our friend Greg (who ventured down for my birthday weekend) act as guinea pigs for the finished product.  They aren’t gluten-free so if it won them over…we were golden.

What I got was high praise for the melt-in-your-mouth, buttery, delicious taste of these biscuits.  So, naturally, I had to have one too.  And then I had requests for seconds.  So, I baked up another batch to have for the birthday celebration and tucked them away for the time being.  The following morning, I had a request for the biscuits, so I made another round of them for breakfast.

After dinner out, everyone reconvened back at my apartment for dessert.  The idea was a ‘build your own’ strawberry (or blueberry, or raspberry) shortcake, but I just did everyone’s for them.  And everyone loved it with the biscuits.  I sliced them in half, put on layers of fruit and Cool Whip, and topped them off with the top of the biscuit, more Cool Whip, and fruit.  They were a hit, that’s for sure.

So, whether making gluten-free pancakes, biscuits, or other products (like scones, muffins, etc…) I highly recommend trying out Pamela’s Products Baking & Pancake Mix.  It’s delicious and everything I have made has been light, fluffy and delicious.  Baking mixes sometimes need a lot to be added to them to make them palatable.  But not Pamela’s.  This mix is packed with powerful flavors and bakes up to perfection, no matter what you set out to bake.

Pamela’s Products = Perfection.  Every time.