Cottage Cheese Pancakes

Words & Photography
by Kelsie Millet



What is your earliest childhood memory? Most of our early childhood memories start at around the age of 4. My earliest memory was my mom calling me in from playing outside and having me decide whether I wanted to go to Preschool or take gymnastics. Of course I picked preschool because I was all about getting the backpack. To this day I’m still a bag lover, what can I say.

...I want to create memories for my kids. I want them to remember waking up on Saturday morning to pancakes.

So the point of all this memory talk is that I want to create memories for my kids. I want them to remember waking up on Saturday morning to pancakes. I felt really ambitious the other day and made them into animals. My kids freaked out, in the best way. Only bad thing is I can never get away with a normal plain just syrup pancakes again. So you have been warned. But they love it, and I love that they love it.

Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Yields: about 10 small pancakes

Ingredients
3 eggs
1 cup cottage cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons agave (or honey)
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Butter or oil spray
Half scoop of your favorite vanilla protein (optional)

Directions
1. Place the first 4 ingredients in a bowl and whisk.
2. Add all dry ingredients, and then finish with your 1/4 cup of milk.
3. Unlike a normal pancake, I like to cook these at low temp and really let them cook majority of the time on one side. These do take longer than a normal pancake to cook, just be patient.

Notes
*Use a whole lot of butter on your pan before putting the batter on.
*If the batter sits too long it thickens up quite a bit, just add a little water if needed.