Strawberry Banana Pancakes

I searched for the perfect strawberry banana pancake recipe after having these at IHOP or Bob Evans (don't remember which). The kids loved them! Even Chris loved them, and that's saying something! He doesn't usually like real sweet stuff, but these were awesome!

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 cup milk
1 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 Tbsp water
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 Tbsp butter
1-2 medium sized bananas, diced
6-12 strawberries (depending on how much you want to use and the size of them)
1 Tbsp sugar

1. Combine flour, sugar, and baking powder and mix slightly.
2. Add milk, oil, water, and vanilla. Whisk together until just combined. DO NOT OVER MIX!
3. Add bananas to the mixture.
4. Heat skillet until hot. Coat skillet with butter or non-stick cooking spray. Pour pancake batter into skillet. When one side is done, flip the pancake over and cook the other side.
5. Dice up strawberries and add sugar, mix together well.
6. After putting on plates, top each pancake (or stack of pancakes) with fresh strawberries. Drizzle with cream cheese icing (see below). Top with cool whip.

Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients:
4 oz cream cheese, softened
1/8 cup butter
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 lb powder sugar

Directions:
1. Beat together cream cheese and butter until smooth.
2. Blend in vanilla. Add powdered sugar. Whisk together until combined and smooth.


I used some metal princess cookie cutters to make some princess shaped pancakes for the girls. I simply coated the inside and outside (bottom) of the cutters with butter and placed directly onto the skillet. I put in enough batter to coat the skillet within the cookie cutter. After the first side was done cooking, I flipped them (still in cutter). After cooking another minute or so, I used a spatula to push the pancakes out of the cookie cutters to finish cooking. Then, I put the cream cheese icing into a little Pampered Chef icing container that Annabelle could easily squeeze the icing out of. Then I let her decorate her very own princess pancakes! She LOVED this! Here's how they turned out!