Mancakes

I'm not here today.

I'm actually in two places today :-)

I'm here at Britt's sharing a recipe for mini apple pies.

Aaaand, I'm over here at Emily's sharing a recipe for Brandon's homemade bread.

They're both pretty delicious so if you aren't too hypnotized by Emily's recipe maybe you'll head over there and check them both out.

I gave you guys a little glimpse into Mancakes over the weekend. 

I'm so sorry that I made you wait three whole days for the recipe.

When I told Brandon the ingredients in Emily's recipe,

his eyes got really big.

Yours will too when you read the recipe.

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Hey y'all, I'm Emily from DashboardDiary!

I don't get to cook all that often, but when I do the odds are good that it is something terribly sugar loaded.

. . . but aren't the unhealthiest things the greatest??

My boyfriend just so happens to be a huge fan of breakfast, bacon, and beer.

(What true American boy isn't?)

It would only make sense to combine them all into one delightful little concoction, right?

So I present to you the most magical breakfast meal in America:

Mancakes!

Pancakes + beer + caramelized bacon

We had a few bottles of Dogfish Head Festina Peche beer sitting around, so we figured it would be the perfect substitution for plain 'ol boring beer!

Feel free to use any type of beer you wish, and if you find a good beer that works great with the recipe, let me know, I'd love to try something new!

I once came across a maple beer, which has a lot of potential!

The first (and truthfully, the only step that matters) is the bacon.

The recipe calls for 8 strips, but who's really counting. 

We did a fewwww extra.

You know, some extra to taste test, in case any come out a little funny looking. 

Heat the oven to 350, lay the strips out on a foil covered cookie sheet, bake for 10 minutes, flip the bacon, sprinkle with brown sugar, bake for 10 more minutes, flip, sprinkle, bake 10 more mins.

. . . and voila.

Magical sugary heavenly crunchy bacon.

There's truly nothing better than that.

In the universe.

The funny looking ones tasted FANTASTIC.

We were kinda tempted to just skip the whole pancake thing and just eat the bacon.

It was that good.

I recently learned brown sugar coated bacon is called pig candy.

Appropriately so.

Anyways, back to the cakes!

To make the batter you blend 2 eggs, 2 cups pancake mix, and 1 cup of beer.

Break the bacon up into small pieces and

then stir whatever you didn't eat during preparation into the batter.

Then just cook them like normal 'ol pancakes.

. . . and then stack them up so they look super awesome and professional and pretty for their picture.

Then feed them to your starving man (with Steen's syrup of course!)

. . . and then your man becomes a realllllly happy man, requiring lots and lots of insulin!

Feel free to come visit me here for more recipes and things and things!

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Our attempt:

Brandon absolutely loved these bad boys, and so did I. Emily was not kidding about making sure to make extra slices of bacon. We only had 9 in the fridge so that's all we could make, but Brandon ate at least two of them before I could pry the rest out of his hands and put them in the batter. We almost just ate the bacon and said screw the pancake part (yes, it really is that good). But I'm so glad we didn't. The mancakes were delicious, and I loved getting crunchy/salty pieces of bacon in each bite of the fluffy pancake. The beer also really added another dimension of heavenly taste. (We ended up adding a bit more than a cup because our batter seemed to be pretty thick.)

Thank you so much Emily for the delicious recipe!