Posts tagged ‘pancakes’

Jul 26

Pikelets

We do a big grocery shop once per week on Saturdays, and through the week I might stop in at the store and pick up any extras. Usually by Thursday, Friday we start to scrounge around a bit to make up a meal using bits of this, or scraps of that. It’s on these last days of the week that I’m looking for something sweet to make using only the most basic ingredients that I always seem to have on hand – flour, baking soda or powder, sugar, milk, eggs, etc. Well, I’ve found the perfect recipe for these days when I’m running out of ingredients – pikelets.

I can hear a lot of you asking yourself, “What are pikelets?”! I had never heard of them until I moved to Australia. Pikelets are basically a mini pancake. They are not served with maple syrup, however; they are generally eaten with jam and whipped cream. And you can eat them either cold or warm, whereas for pancakes, it’s definitely best to eat them warm. You’ll only need 4 ingredients (plus some melted butter to grease the pan) to make pikelets and it’s so easy to do!

May 24

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Coconut Pancakes With Caramel Sauce

When you look at a food magazine, the photo on the cover should invite you to open up the magazine, have a look, and then convince you to carry it to the checkout to purchase it. Most food magazines deliver this invite pretty well to me, especially if it has something sweet on the cover.

In this particular case, I was at the library browsing through the small selection of back issues of delicious. magazine. That’s when I saw it. A photo on the cover of November 2009′s issue that looked like a stack of Heaven with Heaven sauce and Heaven cream and a scattering of Heaven thrown on top. I clutched on to it immediately.

What was actually on the cover was a beautifully arranged stack of 3 coconut pancakes. In between the layers was a hearty creamy dollop of creme fraiche and sliced bananas. From the very top of the stack of pancakes, caramel sauce drizzled down and scattered about the stack was shredded coconut and a dusting of icing sugar.

Oh. My. God. The photo looked fantastic. And then, I made it for myself.

My stack looks sort of similar to the photo on the cover, but it doesn’t have the elegance that the cover photo did! But in the end, it didn’t matter to me one single bit what it looked like, because this is one of the most delicious stacks of pancakes I have ever eaten. Ever.

Sep 30

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Apple Cinnamon Pancakes

I believe that pancakes are supposed to be super easy to make, however mine never turn out fat, fluffy and golden brown like the pictures. My pancakes usually end up soggy in the middle and flat, and if I let them cook any longer they turn very golden brown!

Whatever I do wrong when I make pancakes, I consistently do it wrong (I did have a few exceptions with pumpkin, chocolate chip and peanut butter pancakes). So I stopped following recipes and bought a box of pancake mix – all I needed to do was add water.

My first batch from the box pancake mix were fluffy, but they were still soggy inside and too golden brown on the outside, how disappointing! I read a bit closer on the box and found a useful tip – use shortening instead of butter or oil to grease the pan with when you’re making pancakes because shortening doesn’t burn as quickly. I would try this the next time I made pancakes.

Following a recipe which was on the back of the box, I made apple cinnamon pancakes. To make this, the pancake mix is made the regular way with the addition of water, but applesauce and cinnamon were also added to the mix. And I used shortening to grease the pan.

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The result? One batch of the best pancakes I’ve ever made! Because the pancakes didn’t burn as fast (due to the shortening), the insides of the pancakes were able to cook completely. The pancakes were one of the fattest and fluffiest ones I’ve seen. The applesauce and cinnamon gave the pancakes a nice flavor, and was an instant favorite of my 2-year-old son’s.

I’m pretty sure that if you’d like to try the applesauce and cinnamon flavor, it should be able to mix into any plain pancake mix – whether a box mix or a homemade mix – without a problem. For a batch of 12 pancakes, you need to add 1/4 cup applesauce and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. I used unsweetened applesauce.

Pancakes are great for breakfast, but I never am awake enough to prepare them in the morning! Our apple cinnamon pancakes ended up being dinner for us! :)

Jun 16

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pancakes

I really have been in a pancake mood lately. I really liked my chocolate chip pancakes and wanted to make them again, but I thought I’d do something different this time – make peanut butter chocolate chip pancakes!

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The peanut butter pancake recipe comes from Sunny Anderson; I just added the chocolate chips myself. I made the batter, dropped the batter into the frying pan, and then sprinkled about one teaspoon of mini chocolate chips on the batter in the frying pan.

The blackberry syrup, or even any other flavor of berry syrup, to accompany the peanut butter pancakes would have been fantastic, but I had no berries at the time and just used maple syrup.

May 25

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Chocolate Chip Pancakes

I’ve been in pancake-craving mode lately. Not wanting an instant pancake mix, I’ve been waiting to find just the right made-from-scratch recipe. I found one recently for chocolate chip pancakes that looked perfect and tried it out over the weekend.

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They were great! They turned out light and fluffy and I loved the melty mini chocolate chips in them. I cut the recipe in half and ended up with six pancakes; I added 1/2 tablespoon of mini chocolate chips to each pancake.

The recipe comes from Life or Something Like It and I highly recommend this recipe if you’re after some great pancakes! :)

Apr 9

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Pumpkin Pancakes

Trying to use up the rest of the canned pumpkin, I’ve been on a pumpkin recipe search. After pumpkin bread, comes pumpkin pancakes. I’m pretty sure I’ve never eaten pumpkin pancakes before but after trying this recipe I’m definitely going to be making them again.

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The recipe is a highly rated one at allrecipes.com. I didn’t change a thing about the recipe. I took the advice from one of the comments and did not thin out the batter with more milk; the comment stated that the batter is supposed to be thick and the addition of more milk would dull the taste of the pumpkin. Instead, the comment said that the batter was supposed to be poured into the pan, then spread out with the back of a spoon.

The comment section has a lot of other tips and their personal changes to the recipe as well, definitely worth a read.

The recipe says it yields 6 servings, and stated that it made 12 pancakes. Following the recipe, I used 1/4 cup of batter per pancake and ended up with 17 pancakes! Pictured above is only 16, however, as I ate the very first one! They taste great with a bit of butter and maple syrup. :)