Okay Mamas - it's just me and my youngest this week - he wanted waffles this morning for breakfast so I made some...however, even cutting the recipe in half - made a ton....
so - how do you freeze your home made pancakes and waffles? I was thinking I would put wax between each one and then in a Ziploc bag?
Normally when I make waffles and pancakes - I don't have leftovers! So this hasn't been an issue before!!
THANK YOU LADIES!!! I let them cool and put them in a ziploc bag....we'll see in the AM how they came out....I didn't UNDER cook them - darn - so I wonder if they'll be too hard tomorrow!!! thanks for that tip!!
I've been trying something new lately. My youngest son won't eat cereal so it's pretty much pancakes or waffles every morning, but he just eats one. I've started just keeping the leftover batter in the fridge in tupperware and cooking them fresh each morning. It still saves the time of making fresh batter and the leftovers don't go to waste. They also have that warm, fresh, just-made flavor.
If you throw them in the freezer on a tray until the outside freezes and then bag them you don't have to use the wax paper.
ye i do, my daughter loves blueberry, and banana/flax. They are so easy to make your own combinations and store, and cheaper and you can control the ingredients. i store mine in a flat tupperware container separated by either saran wrap or wax paper. the night befire i place one on a plate in the fridge to thaw with a little tab of butter, the next morning i just pop it into the toaster oven.
I do the same thing with criossants, bisquits, french toast, and muffins.
We do that every time we make waffles, there's never any leftover pancakes :)
The Ziploc bag works great, make sure it's a freezer bag or they don't last very long.
One thing we discovered was that the last few waffles, the ones that we know will go in the freezer, need to be undercooked a minute or two. Otherwise, when they go in the toaster they get hard, because they were done to begin with!
I make huge batches of pancakes and freeze them. I don't bother with wax paper, they come apart easily. Pop them in the microwave, then stick them in the toaster. DONE :)
I freeze them in ziploc bags. I heat them in the microwave just to room temperature and then finish them in the toaster/toaster oven so they crisp up a bit.
I make a half batch of batter. I use bisquick which I think makes the yummiest pancakes. My kids eat one or two pancakes each and then I store the rest of the batter in the fridge for the next day. It takes us about 2 days to use it up.
I have done that before and they we not bad when they came out. I just put them in the toaster like other frozen pancakes and it crisped them up again.
I do it exactly as you do, Cheryl. :)
I usually separate them with waxed paper and store in a ziploc bag in the freezer. A while ago I got the bright idea to write my daughter's name with the batter and let her arrange the letters on the plate. Unfortunately, now she thinks this is the only way to have pancakes. I got a squeeze bottle and cooked up several servings of her name, her friends' names, the pets' names, etc. I put each serving on one of those cheap paper plates, let them cool, stacked them up and put the whole stack of plates into a gallon-sized ziploc bag. Now in the mornings, I just pull a paper plate out and heat it up - she doesn't like syrup on her pancakes, so it's not messy at all. All those paper plates isn't exactly environmentally-friendly, but it is very friendly to me when we're rushing on weekday mornings!
I usually just bag them up and stick them in the fridge to use the next day. I don't like to freeze them since they tend to stick together once frozen. Pancakes I can make by eyeballing amounts and rarely have leftovers... it's a science. Waffles are harder since I use egg whites to puff them up, so I often have leftovers. We just make sure they're used the next day or later the same day.
i make the batter and only make as many waffles as needed then put the batter in the fridge. should last the week. anything left after that throw out.
Ziploc bag- no wax paper needed. They pull apart really easy and then pop in the toaster!
I freeze them in ziplock storage bags. They separate just fine when I need them.
I just put them in ziplock in the freezer. I try to use them that week if possible. They are best that way. :) Just pop them in the toaster if that works for you (size-wise).
I put wax paper between each then wrap it in aluminum foil. Whenever he wants waffles or pancakes for breakfast, I just pull out how many I need and put it in the microwave for about 30-40 seconds and they're ready to go. It's nice b/c it's much cheaper than buying the already made one's from the freezer section and you know what's in them too.
Hi Cheryl! I just throw them into a ziplock. I haven't had any trouble separating them and just put them in the toaster when it's time to munch!
Just an aside, have you ever made cornbread waffles? YUMMY!
Just let them cool completely, and then throw them in a ziploc bag in the freezer, you don't need any wax paper or anything in between them! Then pull them out and throw them in the toaster.
I put them in a ziploc with wax paper or parchment paper in between. They stuck together when I didn't but they may have been warm when I threw them in the bag.
To reheat waffles, I microwave them about 25 seconds and then put them in the toaster on the lowest setting. For pancakes, I microwave them for about 15 seconds and then flip and cook for another 15-20 seconds. The time depends on how thick they are.
I make lots of pancakes and let them cool off then pop them in a ziploc. So easy.
