8 easy pancake recipes for Pancake Tuesday

Are you looking for easy pancake recipes for Pancake Tuesday? It’s just around the corner and I have put together a list of 8 different, easy, healthier recipes for making your pancakes this year.

Kids love pancakes. And it’s a great dish to get them involved in making. You can of course buy a premad mix but where’s the fun in that?!

Here’s some of the jobs kids can do in the kitchen on Pancake Tuesday:

• crack the eggs

• measure the flour or other ingredients

• pour the milk

• mix the batter

• pour the batter onto the pan

• have a go at flipping a pancake (depending on their age!)

• prep all the toppings

And here are some of our favourite healthy(ish) toppings for pancakes:

• fruit - strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, banana

• maple syrup - a little goes a long way!

• chia seed jam - check out the recipe here

• (n)ice cream - kids will love making this - see the recipe here

• chocolate peanut butter sauce

• the classic lemon juice and sugar

• toasted seeds and nuts

• chocolate chips

• peanut butter - we love Nutshed peanut butters and Harry’s Nut Butters

• creme fraiche or Greek yoghurt

Now to the pancakes. Which pancake recipe will you use?

1.Bestest banana pancakes

This super easy pancake recipe has no milk and only 2 ingredients. Really easy for the kids to help with. You’ll be making these on repeat even after Pancake Tuesday!

2. 4 ingredient pancakes

Using simple ingredients like bananas, oats and eggs, these pancakes are a healthier alternative to classic, white flour pancakes. Get the kids to mash the bananas and crack the eggs!

3. Basic Pancakes

Make these pancakes if you’re after a taste of your youth! Classic, simple recipe from Bord Bia.

4. Jamie Oliver’s carrot cake pancakes

These are delicious pancakes. Jamie Oliver has taken a classic pancake and added all the flavours of a carrot cake to it. Worth a try - we loved them in this house. And they contain carrots!

5. Buttermilk pancakes

Try these simple buttermilk pancakes using the finest of Irish ingredients!

6. Dark chocolate and oat pancakes

My mouth is watering at the sound of these pancakes. This recipe is taken from Sinead Delahunty’s book, Delalicious

7. Raspberry Sheet Pancakes by SR Nutrition

A sheet pancake is when you pour all your batter into a lined baking tray and pop it in the oven. So you don’t have to stand over frying pans all morning - genius! Great as finger food for baby and can be customised to your hearts content.

8. American-style caramelised banana pancakes

This recipe is by Donal Skehan and will give you the thicker, fluffier American-style pancakes. And as for caramelised pancakes … drool!