My family celebrated St. Patrick's Day throughout the weekend! Being that my husband is from Ireland, the holiday is personal to us and I have fun making the extra special connections to the Irish culture with our children.
The week leading up to St. Patrick's Day, the kiddos were hard at work designing and building traps to capture a leprechaun (with the hopes of keeping the leprechaun's gold). From Lucky Charms lined streets and gold garland to written notes promising a cozy night's sleep, sadly no leprechaun's were caught (but he was certainly up to a lot of mischief throughout the house)!
As a consolation, I whipped up my favorite homemade pancake recipe and cooked up Shamrock pancakes!
Good Old Fashioned Pancake Recipe (from allrecipes.com)
1 1/2 cups all purpose flower
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 1/2 cups milk
1 egg (I use egg substitute and it works perfectly)
3 tablespoons butter, melted
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center.
Pour milk, egg and melted butter into the well of the dry ingredients and mix until smooth.
Since these are special Shamrock pancakes, I used a funnel to fill a condiment bottle with batter so that I could draw the Shamrock design.
I ended up cutting down the tip so the batter could flow through better.
When the griddle was ready, I made one heart.
I continued drawing two more hearts and made a stem.
Then, I filled in the shamrock with more batter and flipped over the pancake.
A Shamrock pancake! Yummm!
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