Is there a quick and easy method to make pancakes?

arkonite_babe

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipedetail.asp?sessionid=&login=yes&id=53&agree=yes

This recipe is gorgeous. Highly recommended by our house

skintmummy

Thanks a lot think I will have some for breakfast soon. Can you freeze them if i may to many ??

kay41_2

I regularly make american style pancakes for my daughter and friends when they come round. The recipe I have uses 8oz flour instead of 4 plus some baking powder. You separate the egg and mix the yolk in with the batter, whip the white in a different bowl and fold it in the batter. This makes about 15-20 small fluffy pancakes which are devoured by 7 year olds in my house. They also keep in the fridge and can be reheated successfully in a microwave. I also use a silicon egg ring in the frying pan to keep them small and they really are lovely.

chewy62

Please can anyone help me? I've just been trying to make pancakes for brekkie as the kids thought this would be a great idea, but whatever I tried, they kept getting stuck to the pan and burning!AAAAAGGGGHHHH!
I've made them before and they were fine, thought maybe my recipe was wrong, or maybe the oil, or maybe the pan temperature.
Any adice would be gratefuul received, I will not give up!!!!Cheers!;)

tootiefrooties

Whenever I make pancakes, only the last 2 from a batch of 20 are any good! So I'm not sure I can give the best advice, but just list a few basic principles:

-The pan (definitely use non-stick) should be really hot
-There should be barely any oil at all - a wipe over with oiled kitchen roll will do
-Use sunflower oil, not olive oil - unless you're doing savoury pancakes!
-Don't use butter because it burns at a much lower temperature than oil
-Don't try to flip them too early or they crumple up and stick together (i ALWAYS do this...)
-Don't put too much mix in - it should be thin enough to see when the bottom is actually cooked, and then only need a few seconds on the other side

That's all I can think of, hope it helps!

chewy62

thanks piefacerecords! I think I was using far too much oil as the 2 pancakes that actually worked were slightly saturated.(kids still ate them though!)
I also used olive oil, and think maybe the pan wasn't hot enough, so I'll try again later with all your advice, thanks very much!

tootiefrooties

Oh good, i'm glad that actually helped! Enjoy your pancakes :j

Teria

Whenever I make pancakes, its always 50/50 if they're going to come out ok or not, if the first two aren't perfect, then I know the whole lot will be a disaster! Then I blend a banana and another handful of flour into the mix, and they're really lovely with jam and ice cream. They never work "flat" though, the mixture is too thick, so they're mre like drop scones (though the book I took the original idea from described them as "banana pancakes")

Gwen_Seren

I agree, use a very small wipe round of oil and make sure your pan is really hot. About 30 seconds on each side does the trick.

I don't use a non stick pan though, and have never had any problems with them sticking. I have a very heavy bottomed ancient steel pan which makes them perfect each time :-)

kate83

I had the same problem when I tried to make them the other day - I was using sunflower oil which I don't normally and as soon as I switched back to vegetable oil they were fine - don't know if it was coincidence or not. I was using an non stick pan which has been left to soak a few too many times and doesn't seem very non stick anymore:rolleyes:

My mum has a lovely cast iron pan which looks like everything would stick to it as it's covered in so much carbon but it makes the nicest pancakes - I keep meaning to get one myself