smpx 33: mango

I chopped up dried mango and added it to the batter mix. Must have been dealing with a crazy sweet tooth, because I also added brown sugar and honey. The finished pancakes were topped with a little more of the secret ingredient.

Surprisingly, I didn't kill us with sugar overload. These were chewy and fruity and pretty darn good.

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We give mango pancakes 4/5 stars. Next week: something exciting in celebration of National Pancake Day.

smpx 28: maple oat with brown sugar

We just kind of threw this week's SMPX together. Used the whole wheat mix and added quick oats, maple syrup, and some brown sugar. Then I sprinkled brown sugar on the pancakes while they were cooking, and some oats on the finished product.

They were chewy and sweet. I love the whole grain mix.

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We give maple oat with brown sugar pancakes 3.5/5 stars. Next week: lime coconut.

smpx 20: coffee cake

IHOP has been advertising their coffee cake pancakes this past week. We saw the ad and thought it would be perfect to try for the 20th week of SMPX.

We used the whole wheat batter mix and added a little brown sugar and sour cream. Once they were on the griddle, we sprinkled streusel from a package of apple muffin mix on one side of the pancakes. Once flipped, this made a sugar crust that was amazingly good. We topped the finished pancakes with honey butter and sprinkled on a little more the streusel.

These were the best SMPX attempt we've had a long time. I think these might be my new favorite.

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We give coffee cake pancakes 4/5 stars.

smpx4: gingerbread

SMPX1-3 were solely experiments with fruit additions to a standard batter, so I was nervous going into SMPX4. It was more additional ingredients than we had ever used before: ground cloves, ginger, cinnamon, molasses, and a little brown sugar.

Thankfully, a success! Yum.