My boys love eating pancakes. Pancake is one of our common breakfast or tea break meal. Making pancake batter from scratch is so simple that you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it yourself before.
I’ve shared my all-time favourite chocolate pancake recipe back in April and I’ve received requests for basic pancake recipes, too. You can refer to my chocolate pancake recipe here – Chocolate Pancake.
Today, I’m going to share a super simple basic pancake recipe. It is almost similar to my chocolate pancake but without the chocolate.
My youngest son loves it when I make a face or something out of the ordinary pancake and I’m going to do just that. In conjunction with International Cat Day that falls on the 8 August every year (Yes, there really is such a day. I did not just make this up :D), I’m going to make a cat-shaped pancake. Meow!
There are two ways to get a cat-shaped pancake. First, you spend some money buying a cat-shaped pancake mould. This is highly advisable if you are a cat person that lives and breathes everything felines but for the average person like me who simply love cats but is not overly crazy over them, then shaping a cat pancake with my free hand will have to do.
Draw eyes and whiskers with chocolate syrup and serve with fruits for fun and balance meal your child will love.
Basic Pancake Recipe
Equipment
- Pan
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour 130g
- 3/4 cup milk 190ml
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Break an egg into a bowl. Add sugar and milk. Whisk.
- Sift dry ingredients - flour, baking powder and salt into the bowl of wet ingredients.
- Whisk until just moistened. Do not overmix. A little lumps in the batter is fine.
- Add oil. Mix and then strain batter.
- Heat a non-stick pan.
- Spoon batter onto pan, carefully pouring a little more batter on the top part to form ears and the sides to form whiskers.
- Cook until bubbles form on the surface of pancakes. This will take about 1 minute. Flip carefully with a thin spatula, and cook until browned on the underside.
- Transfer to a plate.
- Continue cooking until you've used up all the batter.
- Decorate the pancake with chocolate sauce.
- Serve and watch your little one enjoying the cute cat shaped pancakes.
This easy recipe will help you whip fresh pancakes in mere minutes, you’ll never need premix pancake mix or frozen pancakes anymore. Here’s the tutorial video for a fun breakfast with the family.
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