Amish Friendship Bread (Sourdough) Pancakes

This is a GREAT Amish Friendship Bread recipe because it actually uses *2* cups of your starter (most recipes only use 1 cup), meaning that you have less leftover starter to find “homes” for at the end of your 10-day cycle. Yummy recipe AND your friends won’t run when you see them coming at you with a Ziploc bag full of a suspicious-looking substance and a sheaf of instructions detailing daily (!) babysitting instructions. Ummm….by the way, if you live in Austin and would like some starter, let me know. I would be THRILLED to share some with you!
The pancakes themselves are cakey and delicious; they smell like doughnuts as they’re cooking (because of the yeast), though they are definitely NOT overly sweet.
Amish Friendship Pancakes
Combine in a large bowl:
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
Combine in a smaller bowl:
2 Tbsp oil
2 cups Amish Friendship starter
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
(or McCormick’s Vanilla Butter & Nut extract, if you can find it)
1/2 tsp Cinnamon Spice blend
Add ingredients of the smaller bowl to the ingredients of the larger bowl and whisk very gently just until blended (it’s OK if it’s still a little lumpy). Spoon batter onto a greased, preheated griddle and cook until large bubbles have completely covered the surface, then turn them over and cook until the other side is evenly browned and the pancakes are not doughy in the middle.
I use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to drop the batter onto the griddle. Made that way, this recipe will make 16 – 18 pancakes. You can add more milk to thin the batter a little if you like your pancakes thinner, but we tend to like them on the thick and fluffy side.