CHRISTMAS PANCAKE BREAKFAST

I love that every year we get to create a fun advent and really focus on family activities. As a part of our advent this year, we decided to do a special Christmas Pancake breakfast.

Our breakfast included some of our most favorite things. Pancakes, fruit, bacon and peanut butter!

I’m sure you’ve seen some amazing pancake art floating around. You know those videos that make it look like a piece of cake?? Let me just tell you that its a whole lot harder than it looks! Ha ha! My first couple attempts turned out to be giant blobs instead of Christmas trees and reindeer.

Then thankfully my husband took over the pancake making. At first I didn’t want him to take over because I knew I would be embarrassed at how he would show me up! But I decided my talents would be better used to help the kids make some pretty pancake food art!

Lanae requested the Christmas tree and she decorated it all by herself! I love how independent she is becoming.

She was so excited about it! Now that is definitely a proud moment.

It was so fun to help Owen. He was excited to give his reindeer a nose and eyes! And it turned out adorable.

Here’s what you need for a Christmas pancake breakfast:

Pancake batter–to make the Christmas pancakes we watched this video tutorial and then tried our best to copy. Scott got pretty good by the end. We used an old Hershey’s syrup container to dispense the pancake batter.

Toppings–bacon, peanut butter, syrup, whipping cream, chocolate chips and fruit. We used fruit to make it a little healthier! I thought this fruit platter was so pretty! However, having a large fruit platter like this makes it a very special breakfast indeed!