Dessert for breakfast, fry your blueberry pancakes!

As previously mentioned, the North Carolina Blueberry Council, Inc. has a secret experimental kitchen. The purpose of this kitchen is to test, sample, duplicate, and invent with blueberries. This month’s experiment was inspired by a national chain that is featuring blueberry pancake puppies on its bargain menu. Well being that the secret blueberry kitchen tries hard to be focused on health, we created some whole wheat blueberry pancake puppies.

You can search online and find many “how to make this chain’s pancake puppies”, but most focus on using a box pancake mix. Well, it only takes a few more spins of a spoon to create this from scratch. Note this recipe does involve milk and egg, so a box mix may suit your experiment better.

The basic recipe for the batter can be tweaked along the way, but this is what worked in the NCBC “secret kitchen”:

Yield: 10 Giant Blueberry Pancake Puppies
1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup whole milk
2 large eggs
dash of salt
three dashes of cinnamon (optional to taste)
1/2 cup of frozen blueberries
Extra flour to “stiffen” batter
Optional: powdered sugar to roll blueberry pancake puppies into.

Small deep fryer or stovetop pan with vegetable oil.

1. Mix flour, cinnamon and salt together.
– Sift with fork, don’t get too crazy here.
2. Add egg and milk, stir only till lumpy
– You want your batter thick enough to spoon into your deep fryer. Add flour if necessary.
– Lumpy is good. If you mix too much, the results are a bit chewy
3. fold in formerly frozen blueberries.
– Mix just enough to spread blueberries into batter.
– fresh or frozen blueberries work just fine.

If you want “Giant” use two tablespoons to spoon into the fryer. One to carry, one to scrape. If you want the restaurant-sized, use teaspoons to spoon batter into fryer.

Cook till deep golden brown and then drain. Roll in powdered sugar if desired.
Drizzle real maple syrup onto plate, add blueberry pancake puppies and then serve immediately.

Lessons learned in this first version..
1. If cooking for more that two, avoid the smaller deep fryers.
2. Teaspoon size are quite large enough
3. Turn this into desert with a quality vanilla ice cream, icing, or ?

We call this one not ready for the menu listing just yet. Having said this, the test subjects suggested this first attempt was better than the national chain variety.
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