Perfect Choco-Chip Pancakes

Went to bed at 9 o'clock last night, woke up at the crack of dawn this morning and had this conversation with Stephen...

Me: "I want pancakes"

Stephen:  "Well, we can't rewind to a week ago and put pancake mix on the grocery list"

Me: "Let's go to IHOP"

Stephen:  "Come on...we are going out to dinner tonight"

Me:  "Ok, I'm going to make a mess of the kitchen....."

Ingredients:

2 cups - all-purpose flour

3 tbsp - sugar

1 tbsp - baking powder

1 tsp - salt

2 cups - milk

2 eggs

3 Tbsp - vegetable oil

chocolate chips

sliced strawberries

butter

syrup

Directions:

1.  Preheat pan, or griddle to medium high heat.

2.  Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl (flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt).

3.  In a smaller bowl whisk together wet ingredients (milk, eggs, vegetable oil).

4.  Pour wet ingredients into the larger bowl with the dry ingredients - mix with an electric mixer on a low setting until smooth.

5.  Scoop pancake mix onto pan or griddle, place chocolate chips onto each pancake.  After a few minutes (when top starts to bubble slightly), carefully flip pancake and cook until finished on the other side - another 3 minutes or so.

6.  Serve with strawberries, butter, and syrup....and then enjoy the leftovers tomorrow!!!

***Makes 12-16 good sized pancakes!!!

We used our awesome Cuisinart Griddler to make these....they came out SO perfect.  I love this thing!  

If you don't have one of these....you need one!  The plates  reverse to a grill side, AND it folds in half  too!   So functional!!!