Breakfast · Pancakes & waffles

Pancakes

Name: Pancakes
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 2 tbsp granulated sugar; 2 1/2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 2/3 cups whole milk; 2 eggs egg; 3 tbsp butter, melted; 3/4 cup blueberries; 3 tbsp maple syrup

The fourth most-searched recipe in America, made the plain way: flour, milk, eggs, a hot pan. It is a stack of cake for breakfast and it scores like one — the interesting number is what happens when the berries do more of the work than the syrup.

Time: 25 min (10 prep + 15 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 467 kcal
Protein: 15 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour240 g
2 tbsp granulated sugar25 g
2 1/2 tsp baking powder10 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g
1 2/3 cups whole milk400 g
2 eggs egg100 g
3 tbsp butter, melted40 g

To serve

3/4 cup blueberries120 g
3 tbsp maple syrup60 g

Every ingredient links to its food page — same data, same score, same formula.

Steps

Whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together. In a second bowl whisk the milk, eggs and melted butter.
Pour the wet into the dry and stir until it just comes together. Lumps are correct — a smooth batter means developed gluten and tough pancakes.
Rest the batter 10 minutes while the pan heats. This is the step everyone skips and it is what makes them rise.
Cook over medium heat, about 2 minutes until bubbles break across the surface, then a minute more on the other side. Serve with the berries and syrup.

Where do the calories actually go?

Less into the pancake than you'd think and more into what goes on top. Three tablespoons of syrup is about a fifth of the plate's calories — the tuner shows what shifting that towards fruit is worth.

Alternatives

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

12% of kcal

48% water

5 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

19%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1868 kcal goes into the pot, 998 g of ingredients comes out as ~780 g of food → 239 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 239
Protein: (12%); 7 g
Fat: (28%); 8 g
Carbohydrates: (59%); 36 g
of which sugar: 12 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 322 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.