If you’re like me, you love short cuts. With a growing family, cooking from scratch can be time consuming but worth it, not only for the health benefits but also from a money saving perspective. Sometimes, though, it’s nice to have a mix on hand where it doesn’t take you 30 minutes and 12 ingredients to make something like pancakes for breakfast.
Over a year ago, our family decided it was past time to start making better and healthier choices in food. I wanted to get away from white flour and white sugar for starters. That meant we had to start eliminating a lot pre-made/processed products. Those quick baking mixes being one of them. 🙂
I started doing some research and discovered that making your own baking mix was  going to be super easy and use ingredients I already had on hand.
- 10 cups Whole Wheat Flour
- 8 tablespoon Baking Powder
- 1-1/4 cup Powdered Milk (I like powdered buttermilk and use that but reg. non-fat powdered milk works just fine too)
- 1 tablespoon Sea Salt
- 1 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
- ¼ cup Raw Sugar/Turbinado
- 2-1/4 cup cold Coconut Oil (or shortening - I had to use shortening this time as I didn't have enough coconut oil and it works just fine if that's what you have on hand)
- Mill your flour first.
- Mix all your dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Cut in oil or shortening with either two knives or a pastry cutter, until mixture crumbles.
- Store in an air tight container and keep in a cool place like the freezer.
If you want to make pancakes, follow the recipe below (and yes, this is just following the basic Bisquick recipe):
2 c. homemade baking mix
2 eggs
1 c. milk
Mix all ingredients together in a medium bowl until well blended. Heat your pan or griddle and lightly grease. Pour your batter to the size of pancakes you want. Cook until the edges are dry. Flip and cook until done.
