stack of pancakes with syrup

American pancakes

By Miriam Nice
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Prep: 25 mins Cook: 30 mins

Easy

Serves 4

Easy, American-style, fluffy pancakes are great for feeding a crowd at breakfast or brunch. Top with something sweet like fruit, jam or syrup, or rashers of crispy bacon.

Nutrition and extra info

  • Vegetarian

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal356
  • fat13g
  • saturates6g
  • carbs46g
  • sugars8g
  • fibre2g
  • protein13g
  • salt1.25g
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Ingredients

  • 200g self-raising flour
  • 1 ½ tsp baking powder
    Baking powder

    Baking powder

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    Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…

  • 1 tbsp golden caster sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 25g melted butter, plus extra for cooking
    Butter

    Butter

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    Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…

  • 200ml milk

    Milk

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    One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a complete food. While cow…

  • vegetable oil for cooking

To serve

  • maple syrup
    Maple syrup

    Maple syrup

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    The rising spring sap of a number of varieties of maple tree…

  • toppings of your choice, such as cooked bacon, chocolate chips, blueberries or peanut butter and jam
    Bacon

    Bacon

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    Bacon is pork that has been cured one of two ways: dry or wet. It can be bought as both rashers…

Method

  1. Mix the flour, baking powder, caster sugar and a pinch of salt together in a large bowl. Create a well in the centre with the back of your spoon then add the eggs, melted butter and milk. Whisk together either with a balloon whisk or electric hand beaters until smooth then pour into a jug.

  2. Heat a small knob of butter and 1 tsp of oil in a large, non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. When the butter looks frothy pour in rounds of the batter, approximately 8cm wide. Make sure you don’t put the pancakes too close together as they will spread during cooking. Cook the pancakes on their first side for about 1-2 mins or until lots of tiny bubbles start to appear and pop on the surface. Flip the pancakes over and cook for a further minute on the other side. Repeat until all the batter is used up.

  3. Serve your pancakes stacked up on a plate with a drizzle of maple syrup and any of your favourite toppings.

  • Recipe Tip

    To serve

    If you want to serve them all at once, heat the oven to its lowest setting and put a couple of baking trays in there to keep the pancakes warm as you make the rest.

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Nickle51
18th Feb, 2018
5.05
This is a fantastic recipe. When mixing, only put in half the milk at first then slowly added the rest until I had the consistency I wanted. Also added a drop of Vanilla extract to the mix for that little extra.. Delicious !!!!
David Stokes
18th Feb, 2018
Good recipe. Kids loved them. We used wholemeal SR flour and dropped some blueberries into the pancakes before turning them. Delicious served with streaky bacon and maple syrup. The prep time certainly is not 25 minutes - more like 5!
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Seth Green
27th Dec, 2017
Thank who ever come up with this it works and is so easy im giving my mum breakfast in bed
sl230l
18th Jun, 2017
5.05
These were declared "magic" by my husband who got them made by our kids for Father's Day. We like a pancake in this house but this is the best recipe yet. We put in slightly less milk at first and added until we felt it seemed right consistency- a bit less than the recipe. I think the melted butter was a good addition. Perfect with maple syrup and streaky smoked bacon nom nom
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