Pancakes—or hotcakes, griddlecakes or flapjacks, as they’re also known—are thin, often round cakes cooked in (you guessed it!) a pan or hot griddle. While they can be made from cornmeal, buckwheat or even potatoes (a method common in many European and Middle Eastern cultures), generally a basic pancake batter consists of wheat flour, eggs and milk or buttermilk, sometimes with butter, oil or other ingredients.

Making pancake batter is really pretty easy since so few ingredients are involved. A homemade batter, like in this classic whole-wheat buttermilk pancake recipe, is simple to put together with a few pantry ingredients like Gold Medal flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, vegetable oil and salt.

Bisquick mix makes pancake batter even simpler, since all the dry ingredients are already in the box. Follow Betty’s all-time favorite Bisquick pancake recipe to see how it’s done—just three ingredients needed!