Leftover buttermilk and sour cream pancakes

Best recipe to use up the left over sour cream or buttermilk in your fridge. A bit fiddly but worth the effort as the pancakes come out light and very fluffy.

Ingredients (serves 4)

1 cup plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon bicarb soda
1 pinch of salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

Heat oil in frypan. Mix wet ingredients and whisk in a bowl.
In a separate bowl, mix dry ingredients and make a well in the centre. Add wet ingredients and fold through with a metal spoon. Don't over stir the mixture as you want as much air in the mixture as possible.
Place spoonfuls in the frypan and cook until bubbles have formed and ready to flip. Once cooked on the other side, stack them on a plate.
Top with your choice of topping. I used maple syrup, blackberries and a drizzle of ice cream.

Notes

Make this recipe gluten free by using GF flour. Use whatever fruit you have to use up as other toppings - the options are endless.

24 Comments

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 29 Sep 2019
    7:51 pm
I actually have plenty of sour cream to use up.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 01 May 2019
    12:10 am
These would he really nice I want to try this recipe it’s simple enough tha ks

- - mom112023 said
  - 13 Apr 2017
    12:53 pm
I really look forward to making these. Have never used either buttermilk or sour cream to make pancakes. Thanks.

- - Melissa89 said
  - 30 Jul 2016
    6:02 pm
This sounds so lovely

- - mom169284 said
  - 16 Jan 2016
    6:17 pm
Thanks for this, just happen to have leftover butte milk from making butter. This will be perfect.
- mom134803 replied
  
  15 Mar 2016 , 11:32 am
  How nice you make butter yourself !!
- - meljware said
  - 14 Jan 2016
    5:56 pm
I love buttermilk pancakes they are extra fluffy and tasty. Can’t wait to try this recipe out with the addition of the sour cream.

- - serotonin said
  - 13 Jan 2016
    11:10 pm
Different! Sounds delicious, something I’ll have to try. Thanks for sharing!

- - curlytops said
  - 13 Jan 2016
    11:06 am
I’ve never tried sour cream in pancakes before.
- clairejay replied
  
  13 Jan 2016 , 9:38 pm
  I was a bit skeptical the first time I tried them but they are delicious and not bitter at all.
- - mom62624 said
  - 13 Jan 2016
    6:58 am
A lovely recipe; thanks for sharing!.

- - Nas01 said
  - 12 Jan 2016
    1:14 pm
This looks great, thanks for sharing.

- - mom165081 said
  - 11 Jan 2016
    3:06 pm
This sounds great. It’s always nice to try a new child friendly recipe. Thanks for posting.

- - mum4107 said
  - 11 Jan 2016
    5:05 am
I love trying different pancake recipes. Thank you

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 10 Jan 2016
    1:02 pm
Love buttermilk in recipes, sour cream is nice too

- - mom101628 said
  - 09 Jan 2016
    8:33 pm
Thanks for sharing your recipe – I’d have to buy the ingredients though, I never seem to have these things left over in my house.

- - mom94125 said
  - 09 Jan 2016
    11:28 am
cheers to the poster! really great recipe!

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 08 Jan 2016
    9:01 pm
oh jeepers these sound good – great picture too

- - rachelvk said
  - 08 Jan 2016
    7:17 pm
I have some sour cream and buttermilk in the fridge. This could be a lovely weekend breakfast!

- - mom90758 said
  - 08 Jan 2016
    2:57 pm
All these yummy recipes are making me hungry!!!

- - mom112217 said
  - 08 Jan 2016
    9:31 am
Lovely weekend breakfast and we do love our maple syrup with ice-cream,thanks!

- - mom94125 said
  - 08 Jan 2016
    9:10 am
this sounds really good! a quick tip is to use a squeezy bottle to put the batter into the pan. you can do letters or numbers this way and draw shapes with it.
- mom93821 replied
  
  09 Jan 2016 , 7:14 am
  Super good tip for making pancakes!