Pancakes with strawberries

Brunch at the Jacob house today was pancakes with strawberries by popular demand!

A picture is worth a thousand words so I won't say any more :)

Pancakes


270 g all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
4 tbsp caster sugar
260 ml milk
4 tbsp olive oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
Rind of one orange, grated (optional)

To serve
Maple syrup

1/2 punnet strawberries,cut up and sprinkled with a little caster sugar (this helps them macerate and really brings out their taste)

Method

1. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and caster sugar in a bowl. 

2. In another bowl, combine the wet ingredients together,  milk, egg, vanilla essence and olive oil.  Pour the liquid mixture into the flour mixture and mix together with a whisk to get rid of any lumps.

3. Heat a pan.  Pour a ladleful of batter.  Once bubbles start appearing on the top, flip the pancake and let it cook - these are best done on a low flame as they burn easily.  

4. You can keep them in a warm oven to maintain temperature until you're ready to eat. 

5. Stack up on a place, dish out some strawberries on top and pour a generous serving of maple syrup (hey I didn't say it was a healthy recipe!!!!).    

ENJOY!

Blueberry pancakes

What better way to enjoy a lazy morning brunch than dishing up pancakes with Little Miss J.  So that's exactly what we did today! And this was the result! 

Ingredients

250 g flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp sugar
300 ml semi skimmed milk
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs beaten
40 g butter melted
1/2 lemon juiced
125 g blueberries
Maple syrup to serve

1. Sift together flour, salt, sugar and baking powder.

2. Mix together milk, eggs, vanilla essence, melted butter and juice of half a lemon.  The lemon juice will split the milk, but don't worry about this as it will lend it the tang that buttermilk gives - alternatively, you can substitute buttermilk for the lemon juice & milk. 

3.  Using a whisk, bring batter together trying to reduce the lumps. 

4.  Spoon a ladle of batter into a hot pan and cook on both sides.  Keep the pancakes in a warm oven (switched off) until ready to serve. 

5. Drizzle with maple syrup and serve.  Enjoy!

Cinnamon Pancakes

I can't stop with the cinnamon obsession. So when I read this recipe for cinnamon roll pancakes, I knew it would have to get tried out! This recipe was inspired by the lovely Nikki who blogs over at Chef in Training. Stop by and check out her awesome recipes.

I have made my own tweaks to the recipe and changed the measurements to read in grams as I struggle with the US system of measurements.  I also didn't ahve any cream cheese so made a honey and orange juice syrup.  I have reduced the filling quantities from Nikki's original recipe,  so you can check both recipes out and see which one works for you!

Little Miss J was my little helper for this one and she loved mixing it all up!

Enough chatter now - lets get on with it!

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes

For the pancake: 

Plain flour 110 g 

Baking powder 2 tsp

Salt 1/2 tsp

Corn oil 1 tbsp

1 Egg, lightly beaten

Semi skimmed milk 240 ml

For the filling: 

Butter (melted) 55 g

Dark brown sugar 60g

Cinnamon 1 1/2 tbsp (this is very cinnamony...you can reduce this if you want)

For the glaze: 

These measurements are an approximation as I pretty much just bunged everything together without measuring! 

Honey 4 tbsp

Orange juice, freshly squeezed 3 tbsp

Icing sugar 20 g

1. In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and sugar.  In a separate bowl, whisk together the milk, egg and corn oil.  Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients stirring with a whisk to reduce the lumps.

2. For the filling, stir together the melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.  Place this mixture in a piping bag. I placed the bag in the fridge for five minutes.  

3. Mix together the honey, orange juice and icing sugar.  Best to add liquid ingredients to the icing sugar so that there are no lumps. 

You can follow the methodology over at Chef in Training.

And there you have it - isn't this just gorgeousness on a plate???

Thank you Nikki for a fab recipe!

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