whole wheat wheat germ pancakes | 4 little Fergusons

So, what do you think about breakfast foods, like muffins, having dessertish ingredients like white chocolate chips?

It makes my brain confused as to whether or not I am willing to allow my kids to have said “Muffins” for breakfast on school mornings! So far I am letting them have ONE, and only IF they eat their scrambled eggs first. They are actually not very sweet, so that makes me feel a bit better.

Peachy White Chocolate Chip Muffins

1-¾ cup All-purpose Flour
1 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
½ teaspoons Baking Soda
½ teaspoons Salt
½ teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
3 Large Eggs
½ cups Vegetable Oil
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 heaping cup Peaches, Chopped
½ cups White Chocolate Chips (I totally did more)
½ cups Confectioner’s Sugar
1 Tablespoon Water

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line muffin tins with paper cups.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Make a well in the flour mixture and add eggs, vegetable oil and vanilla and mix well. Fold in peaches and white chocolate chips.

Pour into muffin tins, ⅔ full.

Bake for 23-27 minutes until tops are golden brown and a tester inserted into center comes out clean. Let muffins slightly cool in the pan and remove to a wire rack.

While muffins are still warm, mix together confectioner’s sugar and water. Dip the tops of the muffins into the glaze and set on a wire rack to cool completely.

I got 1 pan of mini muffins and 1 pan of regular with this recipe. These got better over a couple days time as the Peach juice kinda spreads in there. YUM!

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I have been on the hunt for recipes using Wheat Germ. I have been hearing all SORTS of good things about it and thought maybe if I found a healthy whole wheat, wheat germ-filled pancake, my kids could have them on a school morning (rather than waiting for Saturday morning pancakes & eggs with daddy) and I could feel good about sending them off with “Brain Food” in their belly’s. I found this recipe in the More With Less Cookbook, a really great book for low-budget, healthy cooking!

Whole Wheat – Wheat Germ Buttermilk Pancakes (What a title…say that 10x’s fast)

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My kids said, EWWW, we are going to be eating germs? And then proceeded to gobble the pancakes up with not another boo about it! 🙂

Combine in a bowl and mix with fork:

2 c. buttermilk (Or make your own using 1 cup milk and 1 T lemon juice)

4 T. olive or veggie oil

2 eggs

Add and mix only until moistened:

1 c. whole wheat flour

1/2 c. unbleached white flour (I did white wheat here)

1/2 c. wheat germ

2 t. baking powder

1 t. baking soda

1 t. sea salt

Fry in a hot, lightly greased skillet. Mmm! Enjoy your hearty, healthy pancakes!

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I am looking at my blog draft folder right now and you should SEE how many recipes I have ready to share with you, and there are a bunch more to come!!!! Guess we have been hitting the jackpot with new recipes lately? 🙂

Here is a sneak peek of the next few weeks: