The Crafty Cuisine Quartet: Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
For our project we made Cinnamon Roll Pancakes, a quick easy meal that can feed a group of 4 or more people. The combination of brown sugar and cinnamon resulted in a sweet The ingredients for this meal were purchased at the local Kroger supermarket, and came up to a total of about $7.
Ingredients:
Pancake Batter:
- 2 cups of Bisquick pancake batter
- 3 1/3 cup of milk
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
Pancake swirl:
- 1 cup of Bisquick pancake batter
- 2 tablespoons of cinnamon
- 1/4 cup of brown sugar
Cream Cheese Syrup:
- 8 oz of block cream cheese
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 4 tablespoons of confectioners sugar
- 2 tablespoons of imitation vanilla
Topping:
- 1/2 cup sliced strawberries
Directions:
- Combine the Bisquick, milk and cinnamon in a large bowl to form the pancake batter.
- Put the pan on the stove and turn onto medium heat.
- Once heated, and a tbsp. of butter to the pan and pour 1/4 cup of pancake batter in the center.
- While pancake cooks for 2 minutes, combine a cup of pancake batter, cinnamon, and brown sugar in a smaller bowl for the cinnamon roll swirl. Transfer cinnamon roll batter into a sandwich bag and cut a corner to form a whole.
- When pancake is just about ready to flip, take cinnamon roll batter and create a swirl in the pancake, mimicking a cinnamon roll. Flip and cook other side for 2 min.
- Repeat steps 3-5 until all pancake batter and cinnamon roll batter are used.
- Once pancakes are done, combine the cream cheese, milk, confectioners sugar, and vanilla to create a cream cheese syrup and pour desired amount onto pancakes.
- Take the half a cup of strawberries and place onto pancakes for extra sweetness.
- Enjoy!
Ratings:
Taste: 10- They were heavenly.
Mouthfeel/Consistency: 9- The pancakes were fluffy and the added crunch from the strawberry added a nice feel.
Smell: 10- The aroma was in the whole kitchen and we felt that was a good sign that the food smelled good.
Visual Appeal: 9- The icing dripping from the pancakes with strawberries surrounding them was nice to look at but our cinnamon roll swirl didn’t come out the way we planned.
Creativity: 8- Overall the cinnamon roll pancake was a different thought but they were just pancakes and we took that into consideration on the creativity factor.