Three Holiday Inspired Kid’s Meals Featuring Krusteaz Pancake Mix

This blog post was sponsored by Krusteaz, all creative content and expressed opinions are my own.

While I love the idea of making fancy themed breakfasts for my kids for all major holidays, I am a busy mom of three and I don’t usually have time for anything besides the basics. This year though, I challenged myself to come up with three holiday inspired kid’s meals featuring Krusteaz pancake mix. The kids were over the moon excited to see each of these fun pancake centered meals, and are still asking for “turkey pancakes” three months later!

These three holiday inspired pancake meals are not only cute and fun, they’re also tasty, simple to make, and consist of food your kids will actually eat. Krusteaz pancake mix is a just add water recipe, making the base of these meals the simplest part!

With all that being said, here are the three holiday inspired kid’s meals featuring Krusteaz pancake mix I made for my kids this year! Enjoy!

Thanksgiving Turkey Pancakes

What you need:

-Krusteaz pancake mix
-precooked bacon
-chocolate chips
-sliced bananas
-sliced strawberries

Directions:

1. Make pancake mix according to box. On a medium hot griddle, pour a large circle for the body, a smaller circle for the head, and two small ovals for the wings.
2. Assemble layers of pancakes. Arrange bacon and sliced fruit to form the feathers.
3. Use two banana slices and two chocolate chips for the eyes!
4. Go ahead and make another, because this will be gobbled up before your eyes 😉

Christmas Character Pancakes

What you need:

-Krusteaz pancake mix
-food coloring
-sliced strawberries
-blueberries
-chocolate chips
-whipped cream

Directions:

1. Make pancake mix according to box instructions. Separate into two bowls.
2. Mix green food coloring into one of the bowls.
3. On a medium hot griddle, make one large circle for Santa, three descending sized circles for the snowman, and one large circle (out of the green mix) for the Christmas tree.
4. Snowman: assemble the three circles in order. Top with whipped cream, and use chocolate chips for the face and top hat!
5. Santa: place strawberries on top of the circle to make the hat. Use whipped cream to make a beard and the pom at the end of his hat. Use blueberries for his eyes, and a strawberry for his mouth.
6. Christmas tree: Cut the large circle into quarters, and assemble three on top of each other to form the tree. Decorate with whipped cream and fruit ornaments!

Valentine’s Heart Skewers

What you need:

-Krusteaz pancake mix
-strawberries sliced into heart shapes
-Nutella hazelnut spread

Directions:

1. Make pancake mix according to box instructions. Pour batter into a ziploc baggie and cut the tip off. Use piping bag to make small heart shaped pancakes on a medium hot griddle.
2. Cut strawberries into heart shapes but cutting a “v” shape on the top of the berry and slicing in half lengthwise.
3. Assemble skewers by layering pancakes and strawberries until skewer is full.
4. Warm Nutella hazelnut spread in the microwave in 15 second intervals. Drizzle Nutella on the skewers.

Which of these three holiday inspired kid’s meals featuring Krusteaz pancake mix are you most likely to try? All three were huge hits in our house! Tag me if you recreate these, I would love to see what you come up with!