How To Make Swedish Pancakes And Pancake Themed Learning Activities

Swedish pancakes are our favorite pancakes! This gluten free Swedish pancake recipe is our absolute favorite. You can use regular flour in it, too, if you prefer. This week’s picture book pick for the Virtual Book Club for Kids is Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Pig a Pancake. We love the entire picture book series, and this week we made pancakes. I thought I would share our Swedish pancake recipe so you can enjoy them as well! My family learned how to make Swedish pancakes during the years they spent living in Sweden.

My mom taught Mike how to make Swedish pancakes while visiting us once, and now he is passing that knowledge on to our oldest daughter, Emma, as part of a delicious family tradition. Some Swedish Pancake recipes call for butter. We just put butter on the pan every other pancake.

Fill with jam, sugar, cream, ice cream - whatever you would like! You can roll them, but for kids we find it to easier to fold it in fourths. You can also fill these with dinner ingredients (I like ham and cheese), but I have heard that some people then consider this a crepe.

Personally, I love mine with melted Swiss cheese! I hope you’ll enjoy these great pancake themed learning activities to go along with this book! Do you like Swedish pancakes, Do you have a great pancake recipe or pancake themed activity for us to try, Let me know, and I’ll get it added in! Share links in the comments below, or share a post link on my Facebook page! You can also tag me on instagram. Sign up for my newsletter to receive more crafts, kids activities, and parenting tips in your inbox every week.

Add the flour mixture, while stirring. You may want to stir in about half and then add the other half, but do not spend a long time stirring the first half in, as it will start changing consistency quickly. Keep stirring. This will get harder as you mix in the last of the flour.

The mixture will become somewhat rubbery and very very thick. Stir more. You want to work in every bit of the flour. When the flour has all been stirred in, put the ball of play dough in a bowl to cool down before coloring it. The coloring you mix in will combine with the yellow, so it may need a lot of the food coloring to get a deep version of the color you were mixing. Section the play dough.

If you have made 1 single batch, you probably should divide it into no more than three section, or you will have a very small amount of the color. I leave a third of the batch yellow. Take a section and push your thumb into it, to make a well.

If that feels too hot to smush between your fingers, let it cool a little longer. When it is comfortable to touch, put drops or squeeze gel coloring into the well you made. Because the dough is so yellow, you will probably get a shade of orange when you use red color; even a LOT of red color will give you a very deep bright orange.

With blue, you will get shades of green unless you use a lot of coloring agent. If you do use enough, you will get rather nice turquoise play dough. I made a bird, a snow man, a snake and a cookie cut out of a gingerbread boy. The buckwheat flour makes very rubbery dough, which is pretty flexible.

I had no trouble rolling out a tube for a snake and making curves for the snake. The smooth surface I rolled the tube on made the outside of the snake quite smooth. I pinched out a bird, and was not able to put in a lot of detail. It also had a grainier surface, and looked a little rough when I finished.

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