Chocolate Chip Apple Cinnamon Pancakes!

I love to make breakfast for my family in the mornings! They are the first thing I want to see and this way I can give them a warm breakfast. Sadly, this does not happen often anymore. With work, school, work, and more school, we just don't have a ton of time in the morning. I love my family, but I am not waking up at o'dark thirty to make pancakes! This past weekend was a long weekend for us. Thus came the pancakes at nine am, an ok time for a non-morning person! My kids insisted on the chocolate chips and I had some sitting around. Instead of sitting at the table in shifts (depending on who gets up first) and heading off to watch cartoons, my kids and I had a wonderful breakfast date. I hope you enjoy these as much as we did!

Grab your ingredients: milk, white vinegar, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon applesauce, chocolate chips, and your melted butter. In a medium size bowl combine your milk and white vinegar and let it sit until it starts to separate. It normally takes anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes. When you look at it and say "ewwww" you know it is done. In another large bowl, add your flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix these until they are combined.

 

In your milk/vinegar mix add your cinnamon applesauce, melted butter and mix well. Add this into the flour mixture. You don't want to over mix this, no lumps or bumps, and then stop mixing.

Spray your pan with non-stick cooking spray and get it nice a warm over a medium temperature. Pour your batter in. Now this was the kids favorite part, sprinkle chocolate chips over the top of the pancake. By saving the chocolate chips until last they don't all sink to the bottom of the batter. You now have evenly distributed chocolate chips.This prevents half a batch of pancakes with a small amount and the other half with so many you get sick eating your pancake. 

Sooooo good! 

Chocolate Chip Apple Cinnamon Pancakes:

3/4 cup milk

2 tablespoons white vinegar

1 cup flour

1 1/2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup cinnamon applesauce

2 tablespoons butter

1.  Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in large bowl. Mix well.

2.  In a medium sized bowl mix milk and white vinegar. Let sit 5-10 minutes.

3.  After milk separates, add in the cinnamon applesauce and melted butter.

4.  Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture. Mix well getting out all the lumps, being careful not to over mix.

5.  Spray pan with non-stick spray and heat over medium heat.

6. Pour the pancake batter in pan and sprinkle chocolate chips over the top.

7.  Let it sit until the bubbles are gone and flip to the other side.

8.  Enjoy with a big glass of milk!