Pinterest Pancakes

Don't you just love PINTEREST? A couple of weeks ago I saw a great recipe posted by pleasenotepaper for Lemon Poppy Seed Pancakes. Only problem...they're a gluten-infested website :( But it sparked a great idea in me so after many breakfasts of poppy-pancake-blunders, I finally got a really tasty result! I didn't make them sweet like a muffin so that you CAN top them with something yummy. We topped ours with soy-yogurt and strawberries. Audrey loved hers with lemon soy yogurt! 

  

Lemon Poppy Seed Pancakes 
(Gluten-Free, Can be Dairy-Free)
Created by jalene (inspired by a recipe by pleasenotepaper.com)

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup sweet white rice flour (or grind your own from Calrose Rice)
• 3/4 cup brown rice flour
• 1 Tbsp sugar or evaporated cane juice sugar
• 1 & 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 egg, beaten
• 3/4 cup milk  or milk alternative (I used soy)
• 2 Tbsp olive oil 
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 tsp Lemon Flavor (This is different than lemon extract-it does not contain any alcohol in it. I get mine at Sunflower Market. See picture below for an example)
• 2 tsp poppy seeds 

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Directions: 

1. Preheat a griddle over medium heat. 
2. Add all the dry ingredients together except the poppy seeds: flours, sugar, baking powder and salt. 
3. Add together all the wet ingredients: egg, milk, oil, lemon flavor, and vanilla. 
4. Combine dry and wet ingredients until just combined. Fold in poppy seeds. Do not over mix.
5. Griddle is ready when a drop of water sizzles away. Cook until lightly brown on each side. Taste great warm or cold. 

Makes 12- 3 inch pancakes 

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Lemon Flavor

• is NOT the same thing as Lemon Extract!
  
• usually contains an oil base where as lemon extract is alcohol based. 
  
• is not as strong as extract in flavor.
  

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Sweet Rice Flour

• holds together better than a long grain white rice flour.
• is usually made from a sticky rice.
• is easy to make if you ground your own Calrose Rice.
• is pretty cheap on Amazon! Click the link to the right to see.