Pancakes

Best served with maple syrup, these are a lovely, slightly more filing version of the traditional pancake; in my opinion, they also go a lot better with maple syrup than the usual pancake: they taste better with lemon and sugar. Although, you can have them with whatever topping you want, I like them with maple syrup, but you could have them with whatever you want, here are some ideas: plain, maple syrup, lemon/lime and sugar, Nutella, chocolate sauce, caramel sauce. You can make them any size you want; however, they usually have a diameter of approximately 3.5 inches or could fit in your hand like scotch pancakes from the supermarket, but these taste much better.

What You Need

100g self raising flour

1 egg

A few drops of vanilla essence

50g caster sugar

100ml milk

Whatever topping you want

The ingredients are enough to make roughly 7 or 8 pancakes depending on how large you make them.

How You Make It

You can change the vanilla essence for any other flavouring you may like, if you would like to have flavoured pancakes. They taste just as good with and without flavouring in my opinion

Heat up your pancake pan, or a frying pan will be good if you don’t have one, which most people don’t, and put about a teaspoon of oil in it and start to make your batter. For the batter, mix the flour, sugar and beat the egg with the vanilla essence (if you are using it). Now gradually add the milk and whisk very fast or the mixture will be lumpy.

Now to cook the pancake: pour some of the mixture onto the pan, making it about 3.5 inches across.

When bubbles start to appear on the surface of the pancake, then using a spatula, flip it over, now cook on the other side until they are golden brown on each side. Top with whatever topping you are using, or you could just have them plain, and enjoy.