Unoriginal Monday

Despite the negative feelings I have about 'puffed up' content on many of the blogs I visit, I am here today to share something worthy. Worthy of what, I leave up to you. Thus the title of this post, because there isn't going to be anything I did myself in this post. Well, other than possibly view it before you did.

Jim's Pancakes Totally awesome (bees are my FAVORITE!) One of his works was featured in a magazine ... I think AARP. Nope, I am not that old yet, but my mom is. We totally drooled over the whole site. I watched the videos too. Pretty clever, he uses those ketchup bottle things and a lot of ... creative coloring agents. Stale turmeric? BLECH!! I'll just stick with food coloring, thanks.

Penguin Pancakes

I totally copied these guys over at Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons. LOVE it! Check out the whole rest of her blog, it's pretty awesome. This was really fun and easy to make. Here is my version.

Here are the parts in progress. Made the body and head with a bigger blob on bottom, and smaller blob on top. I used pancake mix divided, part with a little cocoa added. I ran out of the lighter colored batter, so this one has all choc. parts. They are supposed to be oval shaped for the wings. Not perfect, they still taste great. I think they look fine as 'organic' shapes too.

Here is the finished penguin.

I had a lot of fun making these. The beak and feet are made of orange sections, and the eyes are whipped cream and mini M&M's. Yummy! The kids were not too hungry, so I cooked up the rest of the batter. We will be having penguins the rest of the week, yay!