Introduction

Lately I've been looking a lot on different blogs with recipes as a theme, and I've decided that I want to try it as well. I love cooking and baking, and I'll try to get better at making it look nice and take a picture of it, and then share the picture with the recipe and a few thoughts.

I'll start off with something simple: American pancakes. Last night I decided to make myself a nice pudding/evening snack, and the urge to bake something hit me. But as it was already getting late, it had to be something quick and simple. I found this recipe on BBC Food, but as any amateur chef, I had to add a tiny touch of my own.

Ingredients:
130g all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp caster sugar
130ml milk
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp sunflower oil

1. Start by mixing flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a bowl.
2. Measure milk in a jug, and add egg, vanilla extract, butter and oil, and whisk together.
3. Add the wet to the dry, and whisk into a smooth batter.
4. Heat the frying pan, and cook the pancakes in oil or butter. The recipe gives about 12 pancakes. I used a 100ml measuring cup to add the batter to the pan (in the lack of any other tools in my very limited university accommodation kitchen), so I'd say that one pancake uses about 70-80 ml batter.
5. Serve immediately. Traditionally the pancakes are served with maple syrup, but I didn't have that. What I did have, on the other hand, was some single serving pots of jam that I stole from a breakfast buffet in a hotel a while back, and that went just as well with them. I tried honey as well, but I preferred the jams.

This works well as a treat for breakfast, or pudding, as was my case. For pudding, I'd serve 3-4 pancakes per person, as they're not too big. And it is hard to stop once you've started.