Make your pancakes into a work of art with this pretty lace pancake method.
This isn't so much a pancake recipe, as a method for cooking them that makes them even more exciting. They look so pretty, but they're actually really easy to create. All you need is a squeezy batter bottle, and then you can let your creativity flow. Make them in any shape you like. We've styled ours up in a heart-shape for the romance of it, but you can do circles, spirals, or even Easter eggs. Need some extra inspiration? Watch our step-by-step video. The basic recipe we've used here is our Scotch pancakes recipe, because it makes a lovely smooth batter, but if you prefer, you can use a classic pancake recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 quantity of scotch pancake batter
- 50ml milk
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Method
- Start by making up some scotch, we’ve used our classic scotch pancake recipe but added 50ml of milk to it to make it easier to draw with.
- Next, add the batter into a squeezy sauce bottle with a narrow nozzle and make sure the lid is secured tightly. Heat a large frying pan on a medium to low heat (too hot and the batter will burn before you've had time to draw out your design). Using your bottle make a small heart shape in the centre of the pan and then make a bigger heart around the outside of the smaller heart.
- Add a line of semi circles with the pancake batter around the bigger heart, but don’t fill them in. Then zigzag the batter in the space between the two hearts to make a lace effect.
- Once you’ve finished the lacing, flip the pancake over to make sure both sides are cooked.
- Carefully remove the pancake from the pan and place onto a plate – you can stack up several lace pancakes to make a lacy stack.
Top tips for making lace pancakes
Switch things up a gear by splitting you pancake batter into two bottles and mixing in a few drops of pink food colouring into one of them. Now you can make two colour lace works.
Drizzle your pancakes whatever toppings you like - melted chocolate, chopped nuts, maple syrup, lemon juice and caster sugar or cream all work well.
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Octavia Lillywhite is an award-winning food and lifestyle journalist with over 15 years of experience. With a passion for creating beautiful, tasty family meals that don’t use hundreds of ingredients or anything you have to source from obscure websites, she’s a champion of local and seasonal foods, using up leftovers and composting, which, she maintains, is probably the most important thing we all can do to protect the environment.
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