When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And when a pandemic closes Disney, and everything else, make Mickey pancakes. :)

One way for me to deal with the anxieties of the unknown that we are all facing right now, is to plan something. ANYTHING. It gives me a place to focus my energy. Since planning the coming days is for myself and my son Brody, he gets a vote in what we do…..except for the closet clean out day I have planned. He won’t like it, but it’s going down.

He loves our time at Disney as much as I do so it was no surprise when he asked if we could pull out the Mickey pancake maker. However, instead of just mixing up the Bisquick, I took it a step further and found a Disney pancake recipe. These are the Top of the World Pancakes from Disney’s Contemporary Resort from Mickey’s Gourmet Cookbook. These are delicious!

Ingredients:

1 egg
4 tbsp oil
1/3 cup milk
1/3 cup water
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups buttermilk pancake mix
4 tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking powder

In a medium size bowl, combine the egg, vanilla, milk, oil and water. Whisk them together well.
In another medium bowl, sift together the pancake mix, sugar and baking powder.
Confession: I did not sift and I cut the sugar amount in half. :)
Add the pancake mixture to the egg mixture, whisking the entire time. Whisk it and whisk it good!
Grease your pan or griddle and start cooking!
This makes a thick batter, I added a little water to it to thin it out.

After pancakes, we hopped online to catch a Disney artist give a class on how to draw Baby Yoda. Followed by watching the Cincinnati Zoo’s broadcast of the hippos. Today was a good day. Now to figure out what we will do tomorrow. What is everyone else doing? Let me know!

UPDATE: Disney parks have re-opened! If you are ready to go have true Disney Mickey waffles, let my friends at About the Memories Travel help you get there.