How To Make: Pancakes

These thick and fluffy pancakes are truly delicious and moreish: Make a stack of these on lazy weekends for breakfast…your family will love you for this and it will most definitely disappear within a pancake flash!

Pancakes are quick, easy and super versatile. This recipe’s serving suggestion of bacon, syrup or honey and berries or grated cheese is just that: A suggestion.

There really are no real restrictions on toppings and why even restrict these yummy mini pancakes to breakfast time? Whipped cream or vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips or caramel would make for the perfect dessert or tea-time treat. 

Some more topping suggestions? Here we go:

• Fresh sliced fruits like bananas, mangoes, kiwi, strawberries, pineapple, or pears.
• Blueberries, raspberries, or blackberries
• Peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, or Nutella

And of course, one could be creative and add nuts, cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice to the batter to elevate the flavour.

You can easily make your batter the night before. Just cover it with a lid or plastic wrap, refrigerate and you’re ready to flip away the next morning. Enjoy!

DID YOU KNOW?

• In other parts of the world pancakes that are thicker like these ones are called flapjacks?
• According to Reference.com, the name “flapjacks” originated in merry old England in the early 1600s. The “flap” part of flapjack dates back to the 1300s when “flap” was used in place of “to flip”.
• It is uncertain as to what the “jack” in flapjack means, but it is often speculated to refer to the small size of a flapjack as “jack” was used to refer to something that was smaller than normal.

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Pancakes

We can't think of a more delicious way to start your day than with these scrumptious melt-in-the-mouth flapjacks?

Course Breakfast

Cuisine Global

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Author Melissa Jacobs

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 125 ml ml sugar
• 250 ml milk
• 2 tbsp melted butter
• 2 cups flour
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 50 ml oil

Instructions

• Beat the eggs and sugar
• Drizzle the melted butter into the mixture
• Mix the dry ingredients gradually with the milk
• Do not over mix
• Heat a frying pan on medium-low heat, to prevent flapjacks from getting overly brown
• Add a tablespoon of oil
• Pour heaped spoonfuls of the dough in the hot pan
• Not more than 4 at a time
• When the flapjack forms a bubble and pops, turn them over
• Served the flapjacks with butter, syrup, honey, bacon, berries or cheese.

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