Pork chops lightly battered in pancake batter (with garlic & some other spices) turned out very nicely!
This probably only used up about 1 pancake’s worth of mix, though… keep the good ideas coming.
Oh no! Another trip to Sam’s! ANOTHER enormous box of brownie mix! This box, at least, includes optional toppings (nuts, chocolate chips) and can be made into brownie cookies as well.
This trip also yielded excessive amounts of Nilla Wafers and Honey Graham crackers, so free free to include those in any ideas you guys might think up.
Banana pudding!
My mom used to sandwich frosting between two graham crackers for cookies for all of her sweet-hungry rug rats.
Beyond those, either make good crusts for cream pies.
Lately I have been fixated on brownie-cheesecake cupcakes. It’s like a brownie, and a cheesecake, in cupcake form. There’s tons of recipes- search according to what you have on hand. They are delicious!
Next time you send your husband to Sam’s, make him stick to a list.
There’s no such thing as too much brownie mix.
Get a waffle maker and freeze waffles. They freeze better than pancakes. Make some bacon-pecan waffles.
Nilla wafers with frosting like Missred says are a kid favorite.
Your family can eat whatever they want. Your husband, however, should eat nothing but pancakes and brownies until you are out of mix. Or at least until he is really sick of them and never wants to see either of them again. Then you have used up a good deal of mix and broken him of his bulk buying habit. Its win/win!
In a dutch oven, layer a few pats of butter, half a can of peaches, some pancake mix, more butter, more peaches, more mix, butter, peaches, mix, butter, peaches, mix…
Place on the coals of your campfire (or 400 degree oven I guess will work if you’re doing it at home ) until done. 45 minutes or an hour maybe?
Same thing with the brownie mix, but use cherry pie filling in place of peaches.
I am cracking up about the 2nd trip to Sam’s Club!! Why in the world would he think you need MORE brownie mix? That is just too funny. It must have been too good of a deal to pass up!
With the brownie mix make a large pan of a brownie cake, cut it in half put a layer of your favorite ice cream in the middle make it a giant ice cream sandwhich, cut it into squares- Instant Icecream sandwhich bars. Keep in freezer.
Add one Tbsp. of vegetable oil per cup of dry pancake mix, and you have waffle batter.
Waffles are yummy.
Also, with so much mix, you can experiment! Maybe you’ll invent the first chocolate fudge pancake!
Mine is similar.
Use the amount of mix you would to make one 9X13" pan of brownies. Stir in an egg and a can of cherry pie filling and bake in greased and lighty floured pan for chewy chocolate cherry brownies.
Pancake batter also makes a good dip for french fried onion rings or other veggies. Mix it with flat beer and a little salt.
A good friend of mine joked that if I somehow DO manage to use up all the pancake mix, that my silly husband would just buy TWO sacks of it next time, since I apparently I use lots of it.
I don’t understand what the big hurry is to use this stuff up. I’d just make sure it’s in a nice air-tight container (I have tupperware canisters) and use up normally. The worst that can happen is that over time the baking powder or baking soda in the mix (if there even is some in there) might not be as effective. When that happens you can add some extra in.
I finally used up all the pancake mix Sunday morning. Had some extended family over for breakfast, made something like 50 pancakes, sat back and watched 'em disappear!
I triumphantly threw the sack in the trash, and reclaimed the disputed shelf in my kitchen cabinet. No more giant pancake mix bag! Hurray!
Monday night, a new sack of pancake mix arrived. My husband, bless his heart, likes the now-ritual Sunday morning pancake breakfasts. He saw the empty sack in the trash and thought he’d better go get me some more. He also likes taking a pan of brownies in to feed his co-workers every so often, so he bought some more brownie mix, too.
:smack:
Quoth ZipperJJ:
I have, or close enough. Once, on a scout campout, we managed to botch the recipe for the blueberry pancakes we were making for breakfast, and had to repair it on the fly by adding some chocolate cake mix intended for dessert that evening. It actually worked out pretty well. Then again, with the appetites of a bunch of teenage boys getting a heavy workout every day for two weeks, probably almost anything would have worked out well.
TrueCelt, that sounds like one of the appetizers at the local Korean restaurant, and the owner/manager/chef is from Korea, so I’d say it’s probably authentic.
To the OP, have you actually told your husband that you have too much mix? If he stays out of the kitchen, he might not know about the practicalities of the situation.
This is silly. If you’re just having pancakes every Sunday morning, you hardly need a 25lb sack of pancake mix (or however large the package from Sam’s Club is). It’s a false economy to buy more food than you need. (And warehouse club prices aren’t necessarily better than supermarket ones, especially if you pay attention to prices and get stuff on sale.)
By the way, if the idea is to save money by buying pancake mix in bulk, you’d save even more by making it from scratch. Based on a Google search, you can easily make it from all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder and a few other ingredients, and, per the name, can use the all-purpose flour to make other things. So you’re not just stuck with a boatload of pancake mix.
I found an awesome recipe for mini “quiches” using pancake mix (it called for a general ‘baking mix’, but what was in the kitchen was Aunt Jemima’s and it worked out fine).
The original recipe is here. I modified it since I have vegetarian housemates, and I used spinach instead of bacon, also chives instead of parsley. They turned out both gorgeous and supremely tasty.
You might think so, but with things like cake mix and pancake mix, a lot of time you would have to buy a lot more in order to get a similar price.
I can get, I think, 10lbs of Krusteaz pancake mix for around 6 bucks at Costco. Just buying 10lbs of flour at the grocery store would cost about the same.
Yes, but at least the ten pounds of flour can be used for other things.