Back in lockdown #3 we decided that if we couldn’t travel the world then we’d bring the world to us. Each week we journeyed across the globe in food form, one week we visited France, then Brazil and Germany, Japan and India, and many more. It was a lot of fun, we discovered new family favourites and uncovered one interesting fact (well, interesting to us), most countries have their own version of a pancake! Slight alterations of ingredients, slight alternations of how to make, some sweet, some savoury, but all delicious. As a household who are obsessed with pancakes this was welcomed and exciting news!
It is because of this love of pancakes, and our commitment to eating them outside of Shrove Tuesday, that I thought I’d give this make and bake a go. Father’s Day pancakes are a fun challenge, and you can make them with which ever recipe you normally use (I will provide a recipe below if you’d like guidance). The one thing you will definitely need to make this happen is a bottle. I used a pancake mix bottle, however a basic reusable sauce one will work just as well, your letters will simply be thinner.
If children are helping you with this please be careful around the hot pan, the bottles make it easy to control the pancake mixture, but we certainly don’t want anyone burning themselves. ALSO, handy tip from me to you…don’t flip them in the pan! As tempting as that may be, these letters are delicate, so use a spatular and flip with care. I learnt this the hard way.
Let’s get making
You will need:
- 200g self raising flour
- 300ml milk
- 1 egg
- Knob of melted butter or splash of oil
- Pan
- Pancake mix bottle
- Sauces and toppings
Method
If you’re following my recipe, put all your items into a bowl and whisk together. We only use self raising flour as our raising agent as we like the slight lift it gives the pancakes rather than making them super thick. I find this makes the right size for when you’re writing with the batter.
Make sure the pan is hot to start off with, you can put a light brush of oil onto the pan to stop the pancakes from sticking, sometimes I do this and sometimes I don’t, it just depends on my mood and willingness to accept that the first one may end up being the ‘tester’.
With the pancake batter in the bottle and the pan hot enough, begin to write your letters TAKE NOTE you will need to write it backwards. I find if I write the word down on a piece of paper before I begin then I can copy the shapes in the pan much easier than trying to work out how to write backwards whilst I’m in the middle of doing it.
When you see steady bubbles it’s time to flip over, then pop it on a plate whilst you make the others.
With your lovely stack of ‘Dad’ pancakes you can now begin to put it all together with sauces and toppings. I smeared some chocolate spread and Black milk hazelnut spread on the plate, stacked the pancakes on top, scattered over some chocolate sprinkles and then drizzled the whole thing in maple syrup. Daddy Wright was very, very happy with them! We will certainly be making message based pancakes again.
I’d love to see how yours turn out, make sure to follow me on Instagram and send me your creations over!
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