- Today, we're making sweet ricotta pancakes.

Don't these look absolutely delicious!

Stick around, let me show you how!

(bright music) So here we have all of our ingredients to make our sweet ricotta pancakes.

We're going to start with one cup of ricotta cheese that I made myself.

And there is a video that you can watch so you can do a too.

We're going to put that into our larger bowl here.

(whisk scraping bowl) And then to that, we are going to add three-fourths of a cup of buttermilk.

(soft music) We have here two eggs (egg shells cracking) that we're going to add to our mixture.

There's one.

(egg dropping) There's two.

And then last but not least we have two teaspoons of vanilla.

In it goes.

Now for this part right here, I'm gonna use a whisk.

And I just want to whisk all of these ingredients together.

(whisk scraping) I like the whisk little bit better because it helps to blend that ricotta cheese and the eggs versus just a spoon or a spatula.

But we're gonna mix that nicely together.

You can see how kind of creamy it looks.

All right there we have that.

(whisk knocking) Now I'm gonna switch out my whisk.

I'm gonna move to just a little spatula and to this mixture now, we're putting in one cup of all-purpose flour.

To that we are putting in four tablespoons of sugar, just regular granulated sugar.

We have here one and a half teaspoons of baking powder.

And then last but not least for this part, we have one-fourth teaspoon of salt, in it goes.

All right, now we're going to mix this all together but this is where we really don't wanna over mix.

These ricotta pancakes are so fabulously delicious that if we mixed it too much, same as like with our cake we would have a tough batter, and that we don't want for our pancakes.

So here you can see it's pretty easy to get it all incorporated and to get it mixed together.

I want to try and get as many of those lumps out.

So, I know, although I just told you don't over-mix, you also wanna mix long enough that you get any of those larger lumps out.

But I think we're doing pretty good here.

Just gettin' everything from the bottom, make sure it's all mixed in well, we're lookin' good.

And here we have it!

(soft bright guitar music) All right, here we go.

Where you are going to now grill up our ricotta pancakes.

So to get started, I've just melted a little butter and I'm just going to brush some butter (grill sizzling) along the grill that since this is an electric grill I've preheated it to about 325.

But just the important part here is you just wanna get your grill a little preheated or warm before you get ready to go.

So I am going to try and ladle out about a fourth of a cup.

The reason why I wanna make these pancakes a little bit on the smaller side is because the ricotta cheese makes them so delicious and so moist.

But at the same time, it can make them, you know, take a little bit longer to actually cook up.

So I want them on the smaller side so I can be sure that I have delicious brown pancakes, but that are done all the way through.

So on this griddle, I can fit probably four comfortably.

And that's really about all that I can manage just keeping an eye on at one time.

So that's what we're going to do.

I have to tell you guys though I really do hope that you try these because I, overall am more of a French toast girl but these ricotta pancakes have definitely made me a convert.

They are absolutely delicious.

So what we are looking for here is a area around the edge that gets a little less shiny than the center.

And then we want to start seeing some bubbles.

Right now, if I were to try and flip these we would have pancake batter all over the place.

So I'm just going to keep an eye on them.

It's going to take probably anywhere from a couple minutes, maybe just a little bit longer, but it's just important to wait just to that perfect moment before we even attempt at flipping 'em.

Okay, see how we have the nice little bubbles now that are forming on top of our pancakes here.

So let's give it a go, and you know you have to be brave, which I am not always.

Yay!

Oh gosh, you guys, if you only knew how excited I am!

All right, there's one!

There's two!

(pancake softly sizzling) There's three.

So now we are going to just kind of let 'em go probably for about a minute.

Doesn't take as long on the flip side as it does on the first side.

But we just want that backside to get a little brown and to finish kind of baking off the center.

But see how they're kind of rising up nicely and getting all wonderfully fluffy on the inside.

So let's get our plate.

I think we are so getting there!

Let me just, now I can kind of peak without getting batter all over the place, which just makes me so relieved.

All right, all right, here we go.

Just gonna plate these guys up.

This particular recipe will make probably this size pancake, about 12 of them.

And you know, I'm not gonna tell you how many people that's gonna serve.

You decide, but I will tell you that there were our two of us in my household and we were able to Polish off all of them.

So here we have sweet, delicious ricotta pancakes.

We're gonna plate 'em up.

We're gonna add a little syrup and we're gonna give them a try.

(soft music) So here are our finished ricotta pancakes.

Let's give 'em a taste.

Got just some warm maple syrup with a little butter pats on the top.

(utensils scraping) I can't wait!

Get a little bit of that butter and the syrup!

I know I say this with almost every single recipe, but you have got to try these!

They are creamy!

They are fluffy and light!

They are the perfect pancake for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, anytime!

I really do hope you try them, enjoy!

(soft music)