You know this guy, right!?
He’s my Dad. He makes some amazing pancakes… the best pancakes, the best tacos, the best sweet potato pie, the best tofu potato bake. He’s a champion in the kitchen.
He’s also a champion Dad. Top notch. The kind of man that will talk to you for hours about the intricacies of Alfred Hitchcock movies… when you’re eight years old, make your stuffed animals talk and have fake bowel movements, and microwave your ice cream so it’s not too cold. He’s the best I know. Happy Father’s Day.
Want pancakes? Take the jump!
Dad’s Buttermilk Pancakes
1 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 stick unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
4 teaspoons light brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Whisk together milk, eggs and vegetable oil in a medium bowl, then whisk in the butter.
Stir together flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in another medium bowl. Whisk in egg mixture until combined.
Once combined, let the batter sit for 10 minutes while griddle preheats.
Spray a griddle or skillet with nonstick vegetable spray over medium heat. Working in batches of 3 (or 6 if your griddle will allow) pour 1/4-cup measures of batter onto skillet and cook until bubbles have formed on the top and sides of the pancakes and broken, about 2 minutes. Flip pancakes with a spatula (a super thing metal spatula works great) and cook until undersides are golden, about 1 minute more. Lower heat if pancakes brown too quickly. Serve with maple syrup or molasses.
Can you see the steam!? That’s legit!
Rebekah
Oh how I love, love, love your recipes! I’ve never, ever had issue executing one of them…until today :( I grabbed my whole wheat pastry flour instead of regular and the batter ended up thick like cookie batter(I even used a cookie scoop to portion and the little mound stayed mounded in the pan). If my waffle iron wasn’t in storage for our move, I would have tried the batter for waffles, which I imagine would have been amazing!. So much for pancakes today. I look forward to trying these again, when I DON’T grab the wrong flour :)
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Neely
These are amazing! Light and fluffy and perfect. I added cinnamon and allspice then topped with homeade blueberry jam. So good, thanks Joy’s Dad!
jenny
I was looking for a buttermilk pancake recipe for tomorrow morning and I thought I bet Joy has one. Sure enough it is even for Father’s day. I am very intrigued by the tofu potato bake.
Arielle
I made these for father’s day today, and WOW, these have to be some of the best pancakes I have ever tasted, let alone made. I’m linking this recipe to my blog asap (2nd recipe from Joy the Baker on there)! Thanks again for a wonderful recipe Joy!
Joey
Made these today and wow i’m never going back to box mix. This is it!
Kim
Joy, your dad seriously looks like my high school tennis coach and 11th grade English teacher Mr. Cyrus! Is that him?
Lissi
up until this recipe. i was not a fan of pancakes..they just didn’t do it for me. Denny’s was the only place that I would really eat them (and maybe twice a year at that)..I tried this recipe and holy smokes!! I LOVE PANCAKES!!! My little boy (3 yrd old) always asks me to make em!!! Thanks so much for sharing this great recipe Joy!!!
Ivy
I second the sweet potato pie recipe request–in season, of course! I’m having pancakes for breakfast tomorrow after seeing these pics. Thank you!
Shawn
The pancakes look awesome! I noticed you mentioned your dad makes the best sweet potato pie. I’m wondering if you could share the recipe. I now it isn’t really sweet potato pie season yet, but it’s my boyfriend’s favorite and I would love to try to make it! Thanks – love your blog!
Monica
Ok. Another one of your Dad’s recipes is now a staple in my book. I just made these pancakes this morning and they were the best I have ever put in my mouth!!! Normally I do the wheat flour, bran and pecan thing in my pancakes, which are still wonderful. But this morning, after a long week of grad school, I wanted something classic, really yummy and not necessarily good for me. These were perfect. The 1 stick of butter was PERFECT! These are going in the recipe book on the page that is pretty much always open!!! Thanks for sharing your memories!! Send my thanks to your Dad, again!!
EngineerMom
a STICK of butter??!! Wow, that’s a lot, in addition to the oil. I’ll have to give these a whirl – I’ve been having trouble getting my “light and fluffy” pancakes to STAY light and fluffy – they seem to collapse immediately upon entering the 200F oven where they are intended to stay warm while I finish cooking the rest.
Renn
Hey…if it’s Dad’s day why is he the one making breakfast?
*grin*
Lies
Thanks Lisa!!!
Sue
Your Dad’s kitchen looks awesome. No wonder he loves to cook in it. Hope you made him coffee to go with his pancakes.
Mark from Torrance, CA
Damn. I am starving and looking at this great cooking site. Mouth is watering.
Lisa
Lies from Belgium:
A stick of butter is what Americans refer to when they mean 1/4 pound of butter. It’s just over 110 g of butter.
Love from a Canadian who was looking for that info for years!
Avanika (Yumsilicious Bakes)
I can totally see how you came around to becoming such an awesome baker! Your dad’s pancakes look perfect, and I absolutely love the picture of the steam :)
Michelle
Love this post (and the pancakes)! Happy Father’s Day to Joy’s dad!!
Kelly
dad’s make the best breakfasts. it must be some sort of rule :)
xo
Kelly
Maja
Aaah, i have yet to taste american pancakes, i only make the thin ones or crepes, love them, but they seem to be an entirely different animal. :) And now the mystery of small tall round pancakes has been revealed: you have a special pan! I guess i’ll have to buy a really small pan and do them one at a time. :) Or maybe you can fly your Dad over? :)
Lies
Great, I’ve wanted to try “real American pancakes” for ages (Belgian pancakes are very flat, delicious too, of course)!
BUT
What is a stick of butter? How much butter is that?
Nurit - 1 family. friendly. food.
I’m so happy for you that you have such a great dad.
AND the making pancakes kind.
Happy Father’s Day to both of you.
Sharon
That’s great that you spend so much time with your dad. My dad works all the time to support us so it’s hard to really spend time with him. I made him a nice card and bought him something really unique and thoughtful and left it on the table for him this morning.
I hope you guys had a great Father’s Day :}
And I think I’m going to try that recipe for pancakes. I’m always changing the recipe for pancakes I use.
I love ’em.
Jennifer
What an awesome Dad!!!! :) :) Great pancakes!!! (I made some in celebration today too)
Meg
Happy Father’s day to your dad! Look at those PERFECT pancakes!
Karen
Did anyone else’s dad make pancakes shaped like your initial? I don’t think the K could have been too easy. Also, my grandma couldn’t have dairy products so he mixed a small batch with Sprite (for some reason?!) for her. Hope you and your dad had a great fathers day!
CookiePie
Your dad is so handsome! Hope he had a fantastic Father’s Day (I’m sure he did, with you!). I made my hubby your oatmeal cookie pancakes for his very first father’s day today – they were a big hit!
Hilary
My dad was the buttermilk pancake maker in our house, too. Thanks for bringing back some nice memories for me :)
theambershow.net
You dad looks so dad-like! Cute :)
Heather @ chik n' pastry
So cute!! Did he put up a fight about you photographing all the det’s?! He looks so natural under the lens!!
My dad always made a fried egg samich. Plain ol’ white bread, fried egg, american cheese, and ………………. bacon! Oh, and lots of pepper. I loved waking up in the morning to that smell (well, waking up at noon….but it was still there!).
Julia
those look amazing! my dad is also one of the best pancake makers i know, I guess there’s just something about dads-they make the best breakfast!
Laurel Nelson
Hey my dad lives in LA too and HE makes the best pancakes too!!! He used to make them for us every Sunday before church. He put his engineering mind to the task of making them perfect so everything would be so exact, and the egg whites soo whipped up. They were so soft and delicious. I wonder if your dad and my dad could hold forth together on the awesomeness of pancakes? I bet they could!
Joanna
Dads ALWAYS make the best breakfasts, don’t they? One of my best memories of my dad is him scrambling eggs, shaking his booty to James Brown’s “I feel Good”. :)
anna
I love that first picture side-by-side with the picture of you in the sidebar – so obvious you are father and daughter. Happy Father’s Day to your clearly very rad dad!
Shauna
I have made these pancakes every weekend (unless I’m out of town for work) since you posted the recipe ages ago. My husband refuses to let me make any other version, because he believes these to be perfection. In fact, I’m making some right now for a big ol’ Father’s Day breakfast, and he’s having a hard time keeping his fingers from snatching one from the plate before I’m done. So, a big “Thank you!!” to you and your Dad for helping us to create a family tradition that we hope to pass on to our kids!! :)
And by the way, totally love the griddle – my hubby bought me the same one for Christmas!
Susan
Beautiful post- beautiful Dad. Enjoy!
jonquil
those are some serious Pancakes!! thanks for the recipe-always on the hunt for a good pancake recipe (why isn’t there a cookbook devoted to pancakes?)!
Dani
looking good joy…. hope your dad enjoys his day :)
Coleen
What a sweet post for fathers day. Your dad sounds like a real sweetheart.
Earthtone
Hi, I woke up and saw this post the first thing in the morning. Made this pancake. Taste great! thanks for the recipe. Love your pictures!
Jessanna
I am so making these for Fathers Day breakfast! (the kids and I even take it to him in bed!) What better recipe- than one from a great dad!
jiawen
You have a great dad. It’s rare to have a dad like yours these days. I wish my would talk to me about hitchcock movies, or really, anything about himself.
I really like your website =)
the projectivist
jeepers, what are you, Joy ~ 12 years old? Your dad looks young. Those pancakes look super! Now I just need someone as lovely as your dad to come make them for me!
megan
I need a griddle in my life!
katie
:) I hope you know how delightful this is to read about your father making pancakes…it’s exactly what my dad did all while i grew up :)
mica
your dad’s pancakes looked superb, no wonder u’re such a good baker! my dad has neva entered the kitchen to cook anyting for me b4… lucky you :)
Whitney
Looks like you got a pretty awesome dad!
Jacqueline
Your Dad is cute!
Seeing him and hearing your words about him make me miss mine even more. My Dad’s speciality was BBQ including mongolian and all the sauces in fact my cousins called him Uncle BBQ, his name was Bob and I love him very much!
Alex
Such lovely pancakes and such an amazing looking kitchen! Be still my beating heart!
Baking and Mistaking
Happy Father’s Day Joy’s dad!
Meg
Mmmmm… that’s what I want for dinner… pancakes!
Kerstin
Awww, what a sweet tribute to your Dad! His pancakes look awesome!
Kati
Sounds like a great recipe and a great dad!!Lucky you and lucky him that you have eachother!! Thanks for sharing-maybe I’ll make them tomorrow for the “dad” in our household (my hubby-great dad to three kids!)
Laura (Alwaysroom4dessert)
Mmmm buttermilk pancakes…! I wish I was home for Father’s Day to make these for him, he looves pancakes!
Stacy
I know it isn’t normal or good for you, but I always love my pancakes a teeny bit underdone in the middle. My poppa would always make ’em for me special like that. I’ve found a good non-buttermilk recipe that I use all the time and we like to play with. Most recently we’ve tried adding little dabs of warm jam to the pancake when it’s first poured on the griddle, making jamcakes. Especially delicious with raspberry. Never found a buttermilk recipe I loved though. Can’t wait to give this one a whirl! Thank your dad for us.
bakingepiphanies
can you see the steam?! dynamite! yay for dads!
Deanna
I love hearing about what a great dad you have. Enjoy him! The pancakes look great.. thanks.
Kristen
presh, presh, presh is he! his cabinets are nice too! great photos and what a nice piece!
Cori
Aw, dad pancakes. The best! Growing up, my dad made one thing and only one thing… and it was for breakfast, too! Scrambled eggs and toast with a glass of OJ. Yum.