Brilliant Blueberry Banana Pancakes!

A few days ago I woke up and all I wanted was some yummy blueberry banana pancakes!

This is a picture of my stack of miniature pancakes doused in syrup

The other morning I was woken up by the beaming sun shining through my window. After stretching and attempting to hide from the waves of cold air coming from my fan, I rolled out of bed and slid on my cozy grey slippers. I sleepily sauntered down the stairs to the kitchen.

Before I could even reach the bottom of the steps I was met with the sound of quick, tapping paws scurrying over to greet me. My dogs seemed as though they had been up for hours, and their cheery grins knocked the drowsiness right out of me! Once I reached the kitchen I encountered another smiling face. My mom! Similar to the dogs, I am positive my mom had been up for hours. She has always been a morning person, something I don't think I will ever become.

After chatting with my mom, "The Queen Kathleen," I peeked through the fridge and all of the cabinets, but nothing seemed appealing. All of a sudden I realized what I had an appetency for... pancakes! But not just any pancakes, blueberry and banana pancakes! This was kind of a surprise food for me to be craving considering I'm never the person in the Shoop house to ask for pancakes. Most of the time it's my brother Jake.

I've realized I'm not the biggest fan of plain pancakes, they're good, but I would rather have pancakes with something in them. Bananas and blueberries are two of my favorite fruits so I decided throwing some of those onto the pancakes would satisfy my pancake hunger. As I had mentioned earlier, my brother is usually the one who wants pancakes, which means I had never made my own!

When I told my mom this right before I started, needless to say, she was shocked. She could not believe that I had never made my own pancakes considering how much I love to cook and bake. With this realization my mom decided she should stick around and be on standby just in case some problems would arise. I mixed up all of the batter and washed the blueberries I wanted to toss in.

My mom pulled out a pan and greased the bottom to ensure I could flip my pancakes with ease. I got ready to pour the batter onto the pan and decided I was going to make a few mini pancakes so that I could have a very "instagram worthy" stack of pancakes. When I heard the batter crackle when it hit the scorching pan, it made me jumpy because of my "fear" of burning the pancakes! If you've read some of my previous posts you would know how much I despise burnt and crispy food!

I quickly cast my crunchy blueberries into the batter and watched them turn from their original solid form into a soft and mushy part of the batter. The next part of the process was no doubt the most "stressful," the principal first flip. Having a solid first flip is vital, especially for those who don't want charred pancakes! You don't want to flip to early, but you also don't want to get stuck in a position where you're struggling to turn the pancake and it starts to burn! Luckily for me, this horrible fiasco did not ensue. I had a successful first flip plus a few others and before I knew it, my wee-little pancakes were done!

Before I started the process of cooking the pancakes, I had chopped up part of a banana, so I flung some of it right on top of my stack and poured on some syrup and watched the auburn color cascade down the doughy "stairs" onto the plate below. After snapping a few pictures of the mound, it was time to dig in! Let me tell you, for this being my first time making pancakes, I think I did a superb job. Adding the fruit was definitely the right move. The taste of the sweet, cooked blueberries and dough mixed with the fresh bananas and syrup was the perfect combination to a perfect day, in week six of quarantine.