Bronto Pancake Extravaganza

As a surprise, we had a “pancake extravaganza” this morning to celebrate the new Spring 2008 product release. Chaz, Carolyn, and I did our finest to serve up delicious pancakes off of a couple electric skillets.

Everything went and think everyone enjoyed them. How couldn’t you? Everyone loves pancakes.

To make the event extra unique, I ordered some Brontosaurus cookie cutters last week hoping that they would let me do Bronto Pancakes. Unfortunately, the plan didn’t really work. Here were the main problems:

The cookie cutters are too small for pancakes. This means a lot of work for little pancake.
The cookie cutters are copper. So, they conduct heat very well and become really hot.
The cookie cutters are light so the pancake mix spills under the sides if you’re not careful.
The pancake batter sticks to the cookie cutters — even after spraying them with PAM — so often you end up destroying the pancake as you try to get it out.

All in all — the Pancake Extravaganza was a great event but the Bronto Pancake idea didn’t quite come together. If you are experienced with shaping interesting pancakes, let me know. I would like to know your secrets.

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UPDATE:

Hallelujah! Bronto Pancake Cutters/Molds do exist and I have already ordered some from Amazon. See them here. Thank you Jennifer Fleming for letting me know.

UPDATE 2 (5/19/2008):

I tried these new fangled Bronto Pancake Cutters yesterday. I made two Brontosaurus pancakes. They were better than the ones from the cookie cutters but still fairly difficult to make — and, I used plenty of PAM. Perhaps some things in life are just not meant to be…