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How to bake Dutch Pancakes

Gran's classic recipe, for Candlemas

February 01, 2014 • Basic recipe Dutch Waldorf recipes Waldorf Festivals Gran's recipes Pan Cakes
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250g self-raising flour
10g vanilla sugar
3 free-range organic eggs
500 ml (almond) milk, possibly extra

Top with
golden syrup
icing sugar
apple jelly
honey
Tomorrow it's Candlemas and we will have pancakes. But baking a perfect Dutch pancake is not so easy. The batter is made quickly, it does not seem complicated to do but then it begins! The pancakes taste best when they are not too thick and that is the difficulty!

Your batter should have the right thickness, the pan must be hot enough and you have to work fast. Baking good pancakes comes with experience, the more you do it, the better they will be. But if it all works out then it is so rewarding!

Pay attention to our tips, they may be important! Here is the first one already: Put every pancake you bake on the warmed plate in the oven, so they stay nice and warm.

How to make Dutch Pancake batter

Turn the oven on lowest heat and warm a large plate.

Sieve the flour and the vanilla sugar into a large bowl.

Make a big well in the middle of the flour mixture.

Break the eggs in the well and stir together from the inside out.

Tip! Break the eggs in a separate bowl to prevent tiny pieces of egg-shell ending up in the batter

Beat while you add 300ml of the milk in a trickle to the bowl.

Keep beating then add the last of the milk in the same manner.

The batter should be thick en airy but at the same time really liquid.
 

Tip! Add some extra milk if your batter feels a bit stiff.

How to bake Dutch Pannenkoeken

Melt a knob of butter in the frying pan.

Turn the pan so the butter can cover the whole surface.

Pour in the batter and turn the pan around again.

The batter should run out, to cover the whole surface too.

Flip the pancake over when the top is setting.

Tip! When the mini-monsters are eating with us, they prefer 2 or 3 small pancakes instead of 1 large one. That is not so strange because warm pancakes taste the best. That's why we bake them to size, large, medium and small ;))
 

Icing sugar is our favorite pancake topping, followed by Maple syrup, Honey and Apple syrup. For variety, there are already many delicious pancake recipes to find on snazzie. Super tasty are pancakes with fruit or chocolate!