Easy Pancake Recipe: STEM Learning in the Kitchen
Cooking up a plate of fluffy buttermilk pancakes isn’t just a great life skill, it’s also an opportunity to work in some serious math and science lessons. The results are delicious!
Ingredients
Directions
Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Mix wet ingredients in a medium-sized bowl.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry. Mix until just combined.
Pour about 1/4 cup of batter onto a hot, lightly-greased griddle for each pancake.
Cook over medium heat until you see bubbles form on the top of the batter and the bottom of the pancake is brown. Flip, and cook 1-2 minutes more or until the other side is brown.
Take It Further
Math and science are an essential part of baking — though we don’t always think of it that way! While you whip up the pancakes, as your child how many cups of flour, eggs, etc you would need to double the recipe. You can also work in some fractions by layout out 1/2 and 1/4 measuring cups or spoons. Ask your child to find out how many it takes to equal one whole.
When you and your child combine the wet and dry ingredients, you’re really mixing an acid (from the buttermilk) with a base to create a chemical reaction. The result? Bubbles that form to make the pancakes light and fluffy! When you add the pancake batter to the griddle, you’re applying energy (in this case, heat) and that energy changes the liquid batter to a solid. Our buttermilk mixture becomes pancakes we can eat!