Works very well but needs 1/3 teaspoon of salt! Expect it has been left out of recipe. I cooked 1/2 tablepoon of mixture at a time for bite size canape blinis. With some salt added to mix they were lovely.

Nice. I've been wanting a good blini recipe for ages. If anyone is worried about (or can't be bothered) clarifying butter, ghee is the same thing and you can buy it in tins at the supermarket (or at least you can in Australia) The recipe also works fine with plain flour even though buckwheat is traditional.

You can use Ghee instead of clarifying your own butter - available from asian grocery shops and also in some Sainsburys - maybe other places as well.

Seems to work well.

Made the day before, kept well in a container in the fridge. They went down really well as a posh breakfast with sour cream and smoked salmon for my fiance's 50th birthday.

I loved this recipe. It's the first time I have tried to make blinis and they rose beautifully and tasted great. I couldn't be bothered to make clarified butter so I used half ghee and half vegetable oil. I could maybe have used all ghee but I thought it might be a bit strong tasting. I seved half with sour cream and salmon eggs and half with Alaskan pepper smoked salmon with horseradish whipped cream. I wish I'd made twice as many so I had some left today!

The recipe was messed up. Sorry, but that was a gut-tamping fried stuff.

Very easy. I ended up using just half of the butter and didn't have the patience to whisk the egg white to stiff peaks but it worked out marvellously. End result is very tasty and impressive looking!

Made these today for reheating tomorrow - didn't have buckwheat flour so only used plain - added a little salt and chives for flavour booster - had the wonky shaped first ones for 'taste/tell'. Great texture, light, fluffy worth the effort, definitely to be repeated.

Did this recipe.Halved the amount of yeast and worked without scales. Could not keep up with the demand and they were not pretty until about the 15th Blini. Well worth it. would recommend.

These are bloody excellent. I didn't have buckwheat, so just used plain flour.

Delicious, easy and successful. Only comment I would make is to whisk the egg white before whisking the milk flour mixture to save on washing up! I have made 36 blinis and am keeping them in the fridge in foil until tomorrow night, when I will heat them up and add the toppings.

Yeast AND baking powder? Why both? Currently doing a yeast-only recipe, so will see if really need the powder.

I made this for a special evening to serve with beluga cavair very simple recipe and easy to follow

I would like the full ingredients listed before I go ahead and make these, like others are saying......how much baking powder?

would like to make these but as some one else has pointed out the recipe does not state how much baking powder. having read other reviews and the problems with missing quantitys it is no wonder no one appears to have made these.

The recipe does not state how much baking powder to use

Need to make these ahead of time , how do i keep them for 6 hours or so?
Thanks any advice greatly appreciated.

Well, it's not called "blini", it's "Oladi" .
traditionaly it's much easier than in the receipe!

Thanks for alerting us to the missing yeast and sorry for any confusion. The correct quantity is actually 1/3 tsp of dried yeast and the recipe has been amended to show this. Happy cooking!

I used 2 tsp dried yeast as there is no way of telling but it worked fine .