Cooking for a Cause
April 11th, 2012 | Posted in Recipe Blogs by Mat
Hey Guys,
I hope you all had a good Easter. I had a great time fundraising down at the Whiteleys Shopping Centre in Bayswater on Good Friday. We were ‘Cooking for A Cause’ with Caudwell Children, a great charity that helps families of disabled and terminally ill children – even my good friend Freda made it down to join us.
Leah Gooding from CBBC’s Newsround programme joined me on stage to cook up some delicious pancakes and we even had a cook-off at the end of the afternoon. Mad Dominic, our entertainer for the day, decided that my classic lemon and sugar was a winner.
Let me know if you were there and if you tasted one of the many pancakes that we cooked up. If not, why not give my recipe a go for yourself? If you make the batter a little thicker, they’re much easier to flip.
Mat
Pancakes
PREPARE 10 MINUTES COOK 5 MINUTES
SERVES 4
Ingredients:
2 happy eggs
2 dessert spoons plain flour
Pinch of salt
2 tsp caster sugar
300ml milk
Method:
In a bowl, mix the happy eggs, flour, salt and caster sugar to form a paste. Slowly add the milk, mixing continuously, until it becomes the consistency of single cream.
Pour into a hot, flat, buttered pan. Lift the pan, moving the mixture so that it evenly coats the base, forming a thin pancake. After approx two minutes, the pancake should be loose. Tease the edges away from the sides and then, with a rolling motion, toss the pancake and catch it again, cooking the other side for approx one minute.
Don’t worry if the first pancake doesn’t come out well, it’ll season the pan and they are much easier from then on.
May 17th, 2012 at 12:58 am (#)
Well, you definitely sueeecdcd in making me hungry! Reminds me of when my son was little, and he would get together with his daddy in the kitchen to make homemade pancakes! I miss those days. Thank you for sharing this yummy recipe can’t wait to try this when he finally comes home in March, but hubby and I will give it a test run, or two, beforehand! Lol! This is such a great photo, too! I should get in on this Project 365, but I’ve missed a few days. I also want to thank you for the sweet comment on the picture of my sister’s cat! Your work is beautiful, by the way! Hope you don’t mind I’m going to become a follower! You have a wonderful weekend! – Deborah