American Bacon Pancakes (D-F)

When I didn't have to avoid dairy, I made these every weekend, but when I had to stop eating dairy I thought it unlikely that I'd ever get to eat these again.

Last week, I whipped up these pancakes for my housemates and I, and who knew one could be full from three pancakes?

I made double the quantity which fed seven:

270g plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

4 tbsp caster sugar

260ml soy or almond milk

2 large eggs

4 tbsp Pure spread

1 pack of bacon

 Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl, then add the milk and the eggs.

Then melt a lump of Pure in the microwave and measure out 4 tbsp, Hilary found this in ASDA and it's definatley the best butter replacement that I've found. She's made lots of cakes for me with it and they taste even better than usual.

Plus, it makes exceptionally good buttercream.

Mix that in and keep mixing until it's all smooth.

Whilst that's going on you can be cooking your bacon.

Welcome to my student kitchen..

Once the batter is ready, and the bacon is sizzled, heat up a pan.

Lay a strip of bacon in the pan and pour over a ladle of batter.

I know that bacon and pancakes might seem like a weird combination initially, but they're SO good.

Drizzle with honey or maple syrup and tuck in.

 

Lazy Sunday

I'm on a bit of a health kick at the moment and am trying to get a bit more into shape before the sun comes out, so no Chocolate Fudge Cake for me.
One of my favourite breakfasts is pancakes, the best pancake being Baconcakes by Rose, while these are absolutely delicious and I could live on these, despite the fact I wouldn't live very long,but they're not exactly healthy.

So let me introduce the two and a half ingredient pancake (fanfare):

The ingredients below make a filling batch of about seven small pancakes.

You will need:
1 ripe banana
2 large free-range eggs
1/8 tsp baking powder

First mash your banana until it's as smooth as can be, mine had a few lumps, nevermind. Then add your eggs and whisk them together.

 

 

Once they are combined, add a small amount of baking powder, this is optional, but personally I like my pancakes fluffy, if you like your pancakes dense, leave it out.

 

 

 

Once everything is combined, heat a greased frying pan and add your batter,

 

 

 

 

Cook on either side until browned, and watch the stack grow!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seeing as they're so healthy you could probably use any topping you like, I love peanut butter and banana, but beware this isn't for banana haters!

 

 

A perfect lazy Sunday morning breakfast, or in my case Brunch!