Last Christmas my mother in law gave my husband and I a cooking pan that makes what I call “pancake balls”.  I think the real name of this tasty treat is “Ebelskiver ” danish pancakes, either way they are mighty tasty!  I like to make pancake balls on the weekends and my kids love them too!

The great thing about pancake balls are that you get to pick what filling you want to put into the middle each time you cook them.  Each pancake ball is made with pancake batter and you fill the inside with the filling of your choice ( jelly, berries, chocolate, cheese and more).

What you will need is the pancake ball pan, which my mother in law purchased at Williams Sonoma.  You can buy the pan through their website or at the Williams Sonoma shop in Mashpee Commons.  Then, you will need to purchase pancake mix and your fillings.  The balls are very easy to make and only takes a few minutes per batch.  My daughter Stella likes to help me make the pancake balls every time.  In the slideshow below are photos of us making and eating some pancake balls.  There is also a great video on the Williams Sonoma website that shows neat recipes.

What you will need to do:

1) Buy the Ebelskiver Filled Pancake Pan (Williams Sonoma)

2) Buy pancake mix and ingredients (eggs, milk..)

3) Buy fillings (jelly, strawberries, blueberries, cheese, chocolate chips, etc.)

4) Mix your pancake batter and set aside.

5) Heat your pancake ball pan and place a tsp. of butter in each pancake ball hole.

6) When the butter melts add pancake batter 2/3 full

7) Place your fillings on the middle of each pancake ball

Flip ball over once bottom is cooked

9) Cook till done

10) Sprinkle with sugar and top with whipped cream and maple syrup

11) EAT and ENJOY!

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My daughters recently turned 1 and 3 and only 2 weeks apart!  I had a birthday party for both of them on the same day and invited family and friends to our home.  The girls received many great birthday cards and gifts.  After the party I was looking through the birthday cards and noticed that they were just to cute to just throw out.  I decided to cut the fronts of the cards off and set them aside to use as recycled birthday cards.

If you want to do this too… All you need to do is cut down the fold of the card and save the front half.  Throw out the back half.  When you are ready to reuse the card just write your message on the back of the card front.  Viola, a FREE and recycled birthday card!  You can do this with Holiday cards and greeting cards too.

You can also cut out specific images from a card, punch a small hole and use as tags for gifts.  My mother in law has been reusing cards as tags for many years, especially on her Christmas gifts.

By reusing greeting cards you can save $2.00 – $5.00 per card and more!  Let the savings begin.

Other great ideas for reusing greeting cards and birthday cards:

1. Cut out images from a card that you like and attach to a gift as a decoration.

2. Cut a card into strips, laminate and use as bookmarks.  Great as gifts too!

3. Cut cards into various shapes and use in a scrapbook or in a photo album.

4. Turn your cards into postcards….View how here.

5. Cut a section from a greeting card and write a note to your child and place in their lunchbox.

6. Use card cutouts as name tags at a holiday dinner table.

Some neat faq’s about greeting cards:

Americans buy almost 7 billion greeting cards annually, representing close to $7.5 billion in retail sales. Like most forms of paper, greeting cards impact the environment adversely during their disposal and production alike, initially consuming virgin resources (trees, water, fuel) before ending up in landfills as part of the approximately 85 million tons of paper waste generated by Americans in 2006.

Recycling greeting cards, which can be done in communities that accept mixed paper in their recycling programs, is one way to keep greeting cards out of the waste stream. Reusing greeting cards is another, creative way to keep them out of landfills. The fewer greeting cards purchased to begin with the less their environmental impact. If all Americans trimmed their card list by only one card, the savings would amount to 50,000 cubic yards of paper.

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