Banana Pancakes

Perfect Sunday morning:

• Making banana pancakes
• Listening to this song while making banana pancakes
• Dancing with Buzza while making banana pancakes

For some reason, every European I've ever met go crazy for banana pancakes, especially Italians. And we've had a lot of those in and out of our house in the past two years. It may be that the traditional Italian breakfast is a light pastry and espresso, or the fact that you can't really get maple syrup in Italy (so I've been told).

So whenever I want to spend a lazy Sunday inside, and have a few ripe bananas, this is my to-go recipe. Oh, and the heart shaped griddle? That's like icing on the cake.

This recipe is adapted from my favorite pancake recipe so far.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (sometimes I use whole wheat flour and it doesn't really make a difference)

3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon white sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 1/4 cup of milk

1egg

3 tablespoons of butter melted

More butter for the griddle/pan

2 or 3 ripe bananas, mashed

2 ripe bananas, sliced

maple syrup

1. Turn this song on med volume, high volume if you want to sing along.
2. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk, egg and melted butter; mix until smooth.
3. Mix in mashed bananas
4. Heat a lightly buttered griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.
5. Garnish with sliced bananas, preferably as the initials of you and Buzza.

Buzza thinks these are good enough to eat sans maple syrup, but this girl prefers the sweet life.