Bacon Pancake Bites

Good morning world! On the menu this morning is Bacon Pancake Bites. Basically they are just pancakes made in muffin tins. Seems a little pointless when you first think about it... why not just make normal pancakes? WRONG! These were great. Rosalie and I really enjoyed them.

First off, they were so fluffy! I find sometimes normal pancakes get kind of thinned out. Also, when you make them this way all the 'pancakes' are ready at once. Whereas if you make them in a pan, you've got batches of pancakes being made. I am also just a huge fan of bacon, so it was fun to have little surprise bites of bacon throughout.

These can be made with just about any 'topping' or ingredients. If you're a fan of chocolate (which Rosalie is not so we avoided it), you can put chocolate chips instead. Any sort of fruit or nut would work as well!

For the Bacon Pancake Bites:
1. Start by frying some bacon - you want it cooked, but not too crispy. Put to the side.
2. Preheat the oven to 350. Grease muffin tins - make sure you get the sides as well as bottom.
3. Either make your own pancake mix from scratch (a quick google search will give you some good ones, I used this one) or use store bought pancake mix. For some added flavour I incorporated a few squirts of maple syrup into the pancake mixture.
4. Once the pancake ingredients are mixed together, break up/cut up your bacon and add to mixture. I left a piece and a half out of the mixture so I could put the pieces on top after the muffin tins were filled.
5. Fill the muffin tins 3/4 of the way with the mixture and top with extra bacon.
6. Bake for 12-15 minutes. To test if they're cooked take them out of the oven and insert a toothpick into the center. If it comes out clean then they are ready.
7. Cover with maple syrup and enjoy!

Recipe was inspired by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en_sVVjWFKk
(I apologize for getting this stuck in your head if you watch it).