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Lemon Pancakes

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By: Leigh Anne WilkesPosted: 2/02/21Updated: 1/04/24

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Lemon Pancakes are light and delicious thanks to cottage cheese and egg whites and have the perfect hint of lemon.

Lemon Pancakes

I’m a pancake lover.  If there are pancakes on the menu, I order them and they are always my first choice for breakfast at home. 

Since becoming empty nesters, one of our favorite things to do is go out for breakfast on Saturday mornings.  Lately I have been playing around with flavored pancakes and trying to replicate some of my favorite restaurant pancakes. Last week it was lemon. Yes, lovely lemon pancakes!

lemon pancakes recipe

Ingredients

  • Flour, whole wheat and all purpose
  • Baking Powder
  • Baking Soda
  • Salt
  • Sugar
  • Lemon, zest and juice
  • Milk
  • Cottage Cheese
  • Egg Whites
  • Vanilla Extract
Lemon Pancakes with blueberry compote

How to Make Lemon Pancakes

  • Combine flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
  • Combine sugar and lemon zest in a small bowl and rub together with fingers.
how to make lemon pancakes
  • Add the lemon sugar to the dry ingredients and mix to combine.
  • Mix together the milk, cottage cheese, egg whites, extract and lemon juice.
  • Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir to combine. It will be lumpy, don’t over stir.
Lemon Pancake batter
  • Heat a large skillet or griddle and spray with cooking spray
  • Add about 1/4 cup batter to pan. 
  • Cook until edges of pancake begin to set up and it bubbles in the middle.
  • Flip and continue to cook until brown on both sides.

Tips for perfect Pancakes

  • For perfect pancakes, mix your wet ingredients together and dry ingredients together separately before combining them.
  • Only stir the batter enough to combine the ingredients, over stirring causes tough lemon pancakes. It’s o.k. to have lumps in your batter, so don’t over stir!
  • Use a large cookie scoop  or a measuring cup to scoop your batter, this will give you even sized pancakes.
Lemon Pancakes with blueberries

Pair This With:

  • Blueberry Compote
  • Buttermilk Syrup
  • Cinnamon Syrup

Lemon blueberry Pancakes

Check out more of my favorite pancake recipes:

  • Brown Sugar Oatmeal Pancakes
  • Swedish Pancakes
  • Buttermilk Pancake.
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Lemon Pancakes

Lemon Pancakes

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes
Lemon Pancakes are light and delicious thanks to cottage cheese and egg whites and have a subtle hint of lemon.
serves: 10 pancakes
Prep:10 minutes minutes
Cook:5 minutes minutes
Total:15 minutes minutes
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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp sugar
  • 1 lemon zested and juiced
  • 2/3 cup 2 % milk
  • 3/4 cup small curd cottage cheese
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  • In a large bowl, combine flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  • In a small bowl combine sugar and lemon zest and rub together with fingers.
  • Add the lemon sugar to the dry ingredients.  Mix together.
  • Mix together the milk, cottage cheese, egg whites, extract and lemon juice.
  • Pour into dry mixture and stir to combine, it will be lumpy.  Don’t over stir.
  • Heat a large skillet or griddle and spray with cooking spray
  • Add about 1/4- 1/3 cup batter to pan.  Cook until edges of pancake begin to set up and it bubbles in the middle.
  • Flip and cook on other side.

Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 69kcal (3%) Carbohydrates: 11g (4%) Protein: 4g (8%) Fat: 1g (2%) Cholesterol: 3mg (1%) Sodium: 165mg (7%) Potassium: 122mg (3%) Fiber: 1g (4%) Sugar: 3g (3%) Vitamin A: 40IU (1%) Vitamin C: 5.7mg (7%) Calcium: 53mg (5%) Iron: 0.5mg (3%)
* Disclaimer: All nutrition information are estimates only. Read full disclosure here.
Course:Breakfast
Cuisine:American
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  1. Melissa @ My Recent Favorite books says

    Posted on 7/16 at 7:02 am

    I love all kinds of pancakes, your recipe looks so good!

    Reply
  2. Dania Høyer says

    Posted on 11/7 at 2:36 am

    I got hungry while reading this recipe , better go to the kitchen and make a couple.
    This website has some really great recipes and i would like to see much more 🙂

    Reply
  3. Hilani-Handmade by Hilani says

    Posted on 4/1 at 9:28 pm

    I heart LEMON so much, I can’t wait to try these!

    Reply
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