Can you freeze pancake mix batter?

Answer 1

It's best to cook the pancakes and freeze the cooked product.

The batter is essentially a quick bread that leavened with baking powder and maybe baking soda. Once you "activate" the leavening by mixing in the liquid, the clock starts ticking where the longer you wait... the less leavening is left.

If you do freeze the batter, you may find that the pancakes may come out flat... However, if you thin out the batter you can make thin "swedish" pancakes as an alternative.

Also, freezing cooked pancakes makes it easier to heat up... with a frozen batter you have to wait for it to thaw. Overall, you'll lose quality in the batter.

Answer 2

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Answer 6

I can't back this up with anything found in a book or on the 'net, but your pancake batter has ingredients that allow the batter to rise when cooked. It's my opinion that freezing uncooked batter would comprise this quality and cause your future pancakes from the frozen concoction to be flat and chewy.

Your best bet to get the most out of your batter is to take few extra minutes and cook the pancakes. Once the leftover cakes are cool, you can freeze them. I like to freeze two or three at a time (or whatever your serving size is) with a piece of wax paper or plastic wrap in between them so that they're easier to break apart when you're ready to eat them. Slide the serving into a freezer-safe Ziploc bag and they're ready to keep for a few weeks.

To heat the frozen pancakes up, I usually pop them in the toaster! They're thin enough that one toaster cycle (sometimes two) makes them hot and steamy -- almost an exact match to making them fresh. You can also heat them in the microwave -- stack two or three together on a plate and nuke them for 30 seconds at a time, checking every thirty seconds to ensure they're not overcooked.

Enjoy!

Answer 7

Do not freeze homemade pancake batter because there are raw eggs in it. It is not safe, even frozen, to store raw egg for any extended amount of time.

Because pancakes cook so quickly, you should (as several others suggested) cook all of the pancakes at once then freeze the finished product.

Use them within a month for best results.

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Answer 9

If it is sourdough batter you can, but you must allow it to come to room temperature and it must start bubbling before you use it. It does loose something during the process, it is not as good.

Answer 10

I don't know about that but you can make the pancakes and then freeze them and warm them up in the microwave. think they taste better that way.