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Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 large eggs, separated
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 6 ounces cream cheese, cut up
- 3 teaspoons melted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- zest of one large lemon
- 1 1/2 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
Details
Servings 6
Adapted from food52.com
Preparation
Step 1
For those who crave the purity of a plain pancake but occasionally find themselves wanting more, ENunn's recipe might be the perfect compromise. Lemon's perfume (from both the juice and zest) permeates these light, fluffy buttermilk pancakes, but the real magic lies in the addition of one key ingredient: chunks of cream cheese are blended into the batter until they are reduced to about pea-size, later resulting in salty, creamy pockets scattered throughout the cooked pancakes. The trio of lemon, cream cheese and tangy sweet blueberries is subtle yet seductive -- a combination that can only be improved upon with a generous slathering of excellent quality maple syrup. - A&M
In a medium bowl, mix together flour, sugar baking powder, baking soda, salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together egg yolks, buttermilk. Add cream cheese and mix until cream cheese has separated into uniformly small lumps, about the size of large cottage cheese curds. Stir in melted butter, vanilla, lemon juice and lemon zest.
Add dry ingredients to wet, then stir to combine. Whisk two egg whites until stiff but not dry; fold gently into batter.
Heat a griddle or cast iron pan over medium high heat, until a drop of water sizzles. Lower heat to medium; butter or oil pan. Drop batter into pan by 1/3 cupfuls. Once the batter has spread, drop in the berries. You might want to drizzle some batter to cover them. These need to be cooked a bit longer than you might expect; they won't bubble as quickly or as much as plain pancakes. Turn down the heat if necessary, to keep them from overbrowning, and let them puff up to their full extent after you turn them, which will take 2-3 minutes. Serve with honey or maple syrup or jam.
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We have pancakes nearly every morning in our house. Of course, ours have chocolate chips in them (occasionally blueberries for company), but I can't wait to try this recipe. Perhaps I will make a few pancakes with blueberries, a few with chocolate chips, and then try some other wonderful add-in. The base recipe sounds like it will taste great with a lot of variations. Thanks for sharing! :D
I'm not normally a fan of blueberry pancakes because I tend to be a pancake purist. (I won't even have them with syrup.) But the addition of lemon and cream cheese has totally sent me over the edge. I cannot wait to try these!
I have been hooked on the paper thin Swedish pancakes, but am ready to something a little fluffier - and the cream cheese and lemon in your recipe remind me of my favorite sandwich cookies - will definitely put these in the Thanksgiving weekend rotation.
Jennifer Ann, let me know what you think! The blueberries really turn them into something crazy. (I froze some from the greenmarket on a cookie sheet this summer, and have two giant bags in my freezer--happy!) And I use butter to cook them, which makes them super-crispy on the outside, the way I like them.
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