One of my favorite breakfast recipes is this easy all-in-one pan skillet casserole that makes a quick brunch and is perfect for a weekend meal when you set up a serving bar for those pickiest of eaters.
Although pancake mixes can be used to replace many baking recipes, a regular baking mix is a different being than just adding water pancake mixes however you can still use them.
You may also like to try our homemade pancake batter when you have time, it's fantastic!.
Peanut butter cookies come together quickly and taste great similar to the old-fashioned cookie jar style.
Then there is a wonderful batter for vegetables and seafood to try plus for dessert a coffee cake with a streusel topping.
The sour cream coffee cake with streusel topping is another family delicious treat made with pancake mix you'll love the ease of this recipe.
Our last recipe uses just add water pancake mix a fun festival-style funnel cake made into little bites with powdered sugar on top.
Prepare our breakfast casserole the night before and bake it in the morning or you can also freeze it for the easiest breakfast to feed a crowd another day!
If you have a box of pancake complete just add water mix laying around and want to use it up, our recipes below will enhance this ordinary mix and transform it into exciting baked goods and so much more.
Scroll down to make these easy recipes and have fun adapting them to however you like them to avoid the ads just hit print on the recipe card below at the end of this post!
Recipes Using Just Add Water Pancake Mix
- each recipe has easy directions however you will want to have a few tips along the way read below for a complete pancake mix just add water or any brand
- ingredients extra for coffee cake, peanut butter cookies, funnel cake bites, and seasoning for the batter-fried seafood and vegetables are in the recipe card at the end of this post
- this won't save time but the mix is great in a pinch with just a few additions
- keep in mind adding an egg, seasoning, extracts, and a few other ingredients will enhance the mix
- breakfast casseroles are delicious adding the layer of pancake on the bottom and building an all-in-one breakfast in one pan
- cookies are delicious made with this mix
- coffee cakes come out moist and delicious
- batter-coated vegetables and seafood come out crispy and golden brown
- premade mixes are very convenient and can save time leaving out the baking powder, salt, and flour already in the mix
- premade mixes will always make a very smooth batter and consistency
- premade just add water mixes are very versatile when you get creative to transform ordinary to exciting in most baking recipes
Tips for our recipes using Just Add Water Pancake Mix
- any brand of just add the water pancake mix you prefer no name brands are fine
- adding an egg makes the batter richer and milk instead of water
- another liquid to substitute when making fish and vegetables to use is carbonated soda or beer for a lighter batter
- just add water pancake mix works terrific for making a thin crepe batter
- muffins can be made with this by adding more sugar and eliminating the leavening agents then adding fruits of choice
- experiment with spices like pumpkin spice, nutmeg, ginger, and even extracts in the batter
- make the scrambled eggs ahead of time and for cheese, fans add some extra shredded cheese to those
- when making the breakfast casserole set up a breakfast bar to top the baked pancakes instead of dividing this as our recipe calls for and add all cooked meats, cooked vegetables IE potatoes, spinach, asparagus, etc., chop up some fruits, add a bowl of whipped cream, chopped nuts, syrups, and whatever you love on your serving stations
- any mix-ins can be folded into the peanut butter cookie recipe IE chocolate chips, nuts, etc.
- when batter frying anything in oil the oil must be at around 350 degrees first before adding to fry fish, vegetables, or funnel cake bites
Breakfast Casserole Toppings Serving Bar Suggestions:
- sliced bananas, apples, pears
- berries of any kind IE raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, boysenberries, strawberries sliced
- mango diced or papaya
- coconut
- chocolate chips
- macadamia nuts, pistachios, walnuts pecans
- whipped cream
- maple syrup
- any kind of cooked potatoes you prefer: homefries, hash browns, southern style potatoes
- pureed fruits
- any kind of shredded cheese
- any cooked meats
- eggs cooked however you prefer them
- cooked meats
- precooked vegetables
- leftovers from another meal are perfect toppings
- make a Mexican style with refried beans, taco meat, scrambled eggs, and cheese
- leftover sliced steak, pork chops topped with cooked potatoes, shredded cheddar
- bacon, pork breakfast sausages Italian sausage patties Canadian bacon boneless pork chops ham or ham steak chopped boneless deli meat of your choice(ham works the best)
Pancake Mix Suggestions for Our Recipes:
- Pancake Casserole: add a combination of pineapple, mango, and coconut for a tropical treat and try some coconut syrup on top sprinkled with macadamia nuts
- craisins, raisins, apricots, figs, and dates, or in combination go great in this pancake breakfast.
- spices will make a new change to the batter flavor using a combination of just cinnamon
- mix-and-match flavored extract, lemon and lemon zest, or orange, and orange zest
- add some chocolate chips to the batter.
- banana, coconut, the meat of choice, and chocolate syrup
- get creative and make a combination of whatever you prefer for a Hawaiian Island-style breakfast try some kiwi, mango, and papaya, and add some coconut, coconut syrup, and macadamia nuts
- Peanut Butter Cookies: add chocolate chips, toffee chips crushed peanut butter cups
- Coffee cake: coconut, chocolate chips, chopped nuts of any kind, chopped finely mixed fruits
- Funnel Cakes: roll in powdered sugar, or cinnamon sugar or serve hot fudge to dip them in
- Battered Fish and Vegetables: any kind of white fish, or shellfish can be used, and all vegetables can be cut into small pieces dipped in batter, and fried in hot heated oil. For a crunchier light coating try adding carbonated sparkling water or beer instead of water
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Pancake Mix Ideas
Pre-made pancake mixes are such a wonderful easy starter to create all kinds of baked goods to delicious breakfast casseroles.
Precooked meats, packaged biscuit mixes or pancake mixes, waffle mix whatever you have can be transformed into the easiest muffins, cakes, cookies, and breakfast casseroles with just adding some simple pantry ingredients.
Why use just add water pancake mix? Because it's all premeasured evenly for baking recipes and although won't save much time, they will eliminate leavening agents, salt, and flour in your recipes..
Just add water pancake mix are just perfect for camping trips and outdoor grill cooking, college dorm students for simple and economical foods, and of course they do make great pancakes especially doctored with flavors and fun additions like fruits and nuts.
If you haven't kept this amazing box of complete pancake mix on hand, give it a try, it will come in handy.
5 Pancake Mix Recipes
Here are 5 awesome recipes using Just Add Water Pancake Mix. a great batter for seafood and vegetables, Coffee Cake, Peanut Butter Cookies, Funnel Cake Bites, and a Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients
- Batter Fried Seafood and Vegetables:
- 1 cup of just add water pancake mix
- 3/4 cup of water or you can use a flat stout beer
- seasoning: 1 teaspoon of each: granulated garlic powder, Italian dried herbs, cajun seasoning mix, paprika, and optional (cayenne pepper for heat add just a pinch!)
- Pancake Breakfast Casserole Recipe:
- 1 cup water
- 2 tablespoon butter, melted
- 6 eggs, cooked
- 2 cups shredded provolone, cheddar, Swiss or whatever cheese you prefer
- 12 slices of crispy cooked bacon
- see options under notes for adding to the top
- Optional: maple syrup
- Peanut Butter Cookies:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups pancake mix
- optional: 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
- Coffee Cake:
- 2 1/2 cups pancake mix
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup buttermilk (just add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice to regular milk)
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Topping for Coffee Cake:
- 2 tablespoons butter softened
- 1/4 cup pancake mix
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Optional Garnish: a dusting of powdered sugar
- Funnel Cake Bites:
- 1 1/2 cups of just add water pancake mix
- 3/4 cup water or 2 % milk
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla, lemon, or orange extract
- powdered sugar for garnishing or warmed hot fudge or caramel sauce for dipping them in
Instructions
- Battered Seafood and Vegetables Instructions:
- Heat around 2 inches of oil in a deep frying pan.
- Mix the batter until smooth adding the seasoning and using either water or flat beer.
- Dip the vegetables or seafood you using a fork and shake off excess.
- Drop into hot oil and fry until golden usually 3 to 5 minutes for fish.
- Note: Vegetables take a little longer unless they are precooked depending on what you use.
- Pancake Breakfast Casserole Instructions:
- Mix the pancake with water until smooth.
- Add the melted butter to a cast iron 10-inch skillet
- Pour the batter into it.
- Bake this at 400 degrees for around 9 to 10 minutes or until the edges are brown.
- While this is baking make the scrambled eggs, bacon, and whatever toppings you will add to this casserole that your family prefers.
- Take out the pancake and top with a layer of cheese around 1 cup.
- Add the toppings next (I usually separate them with cooked potatoes, spinach, and tomatoes
- Add the scrambled eggs next and top with more cheese and meats you may prefer other than bacon.
- Bake again at 400 just until the cheese melts.
- Serve this with maple syrup if you prefer (refer to the notes for topping suggestions
- Peanut Butter Cookie Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Mix all the ingredients (with added cinnamon if using) until it forms a ball.
- Roll into balls and place on the baking sheet.
- Using a fork make a crisis cross with the fork tines and flatten each cookie and sprinkle with granulated sugar on top.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Coffee Cake Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease and 9 x 9 baking pan.
- Add the dry ingredients to a bowl, whisk together.
- Slowly add all the wet ingredients just until evenly combined.
- Pour into the prepared pan.
- Top with the mixture of streusel topping.
- Bake for 25 minutes and cool completely before cutting.
- Funnel Cake Bites:
- Heat the oil to 375 degrees
- While the oil is heating mix the batter until evenly blended.
- Drop by teaspoons into the hot oil and fry until golden turning on each side to fry evenly.
- Place on paper towels as they are completed cooking to drain oil
- Dust with powdered sugar, and cinnamon sugar, or serve with heated hot fudge or caramel for dipping.
Notes
Breakfast Casserole Toppings and Serving Bar Suggestions:
- sliced bananas, apples, pears
- berries of any kind IE raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, boysenberries, strawberries sliced
- mango diced or papaya
- coconut
- chocolate chips
- macadamia nuts, pistachios, walnuts pecans
- whipped cream
- maple syrup
- any kind of cooked potatoes you prefer: homefries, hash browns, southern style potatoes
- pureed fruits
- any kind of shredded cheese
- any cooked meats
- eggs cooked however you prefer them
- cooked meats
- precooked vegetables
- leftovers from another meal are perfect toppings
- make a Mexican style with refried beans, taco meat, scrambled eggs, and cheese
- leftover sliced steak, pork chops topped with cooked potatoes, shredded cheddar
- bacon, pork breakfast sausages Italian sausage patties Canadian bacon boneless pork chops ham or ham steak chopped boneless deli meat of your choice(ham works the best)
Pancake Mix Suggestions for Our Recipes:
- Pancake Casserole: add a combination of pineapple, mango, and coconut for a tropical treat and try some coconut syrup on top sprinkled with macadamia nuts
- craisins, raisins, apricots, figs, and dates, or in combination go great in this pancake breakfast.
- spices will make a new change to the batter flavor using a combination of just cinnamon
- mix-and-match flavored extract, lemon and lemon zest, or orange, and orange zest
- add some chocolate chips to the batter.
- banana, coconut, the meat of choice, and chocolate syrup
- get creative and make a combination of whatever you prefer for a Hawaiian Island-style breakfast try some kiwi, mango, and papaya, and add some coconut, coconut syrup, and macadamia nuts
- Peanut Butter Cookies: add chocolate chips, toffee chips crushed peanut butter cups
- Coffee cake: coconut, chocolate chips, chopped nuts of any kind, chopped finely mixed fruits
- Funnel Cakes: roll in powdered sugar, or cinnamon sugar or serve hot fudge to dip them in
- Battered Fish and Vegetables: any kind of white fish, or shellfish can be used, and all vegetables can be cut into small pieces dipped in batter, and fried in hot heated oil. For a crunchier light coating try adding carbonated sparkling water or beer instead of water
Tips for our recipes using Just Add Water Pancake Mix
- any brand of just add the water pancake mix you prefer no name brands are fine
- adding an egg makes the batter richer and milk instead of water
- another liquid to substitute when making fish and vegetables to use is carbonated soda or beer for a lighter batter
- just add water pancake mix works terrific for making a thin crepe batter
- muffins can be made with this by adding more sugar and eliminating the leavening agents then adding fruits of choice
- experiment with spices like pumpkin spice, nutmeg, ginger, and even extracts in the batter
- make the scrambled eggs ahead of time and for cheese, fans add some extra shredded cheese to those
- when making the breakfast casserole set up a breakfast bar to top the baked pancakes instead of dividing this as our recipe calls for and add all cooked meats, cooked vegetables IE potatoes, spinach, asparagus, etc., chop up some fruits, add a bowl of whipped cream, chopped nuts, syrups, and whatever you love on your serving stations
- any mix-ins can be folded into the peanut butter cookie recipe IE chocolate chips, nuts, etc.
- when batter frying anything in oil the oil must be at around 350 degrees first before adding to fry fish, vegetables, or funnel cake bites
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