Honey Whole Wheat Pancakes

My mornings go like this: 

"Mom, I'm hungry will you get up now?"

"Okay, I will in just a minute . . ."

15-30 minutes later, "Mom, Arden's awake will you get up now?"

" Okay."  And this time is for reals.

"Yah!  I'm hungry can we have pancakes with seery-up? ( that's how Logan pronounces syrup, kind of like giddy-up)

Every morning, without fail, she wants pancakes and syrup.  And because I don't like to have to start my first moments of the day picking a battle, that's what they usually get-frozen walmart mini pancakes. And then Jude chimes in with "And, can I have caramel milk!?!"  Logan, "And, can I have chocolate milk!?!" I've never felt good about this "most important meal of the day" routine, so I finally did what I'd always planned to do and together we made homemade whole wheat pancakes, fishing the whole wheat flour I had bought months ago from the back of the pantry.  I doubled the recipe, as it is here, and it made ~ 40 mini pancakes to pop in the freezer and pull out a few in the mornings.  I liked them, the kids liked them and now i don't feel so bad about the chocolate milk!  I also loved that these had a light and fluffy texture, since sometimes recipes with wheat flour can end up too dense.

Honey Whole Wheat Pancakes
Food.com by WJKing
makes 40 mini pancakes, ~ 20 regular size

Ingredients

• 2 cup whole wheat flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoon honey
• 6 tablespoons oil
• 2 cup buttermilk * OR 2 cups regular milk+2Tbs lemon juice
• 4 large eggs

Directions

1. Stir honey& oil together in a bowl.
2. Add milk& eggs& beat well.
3. Mix dry ingredients into the liquids until flour is moistened.