Recipes

Date posted: 16/12/2020

Tate & Lyle pancakes

This is such a fun idea for pancakes – perfect for Shrove Tuesday or Valentine’s Day! Chocolate flavoured pancake batter is ‘drawn’ into a heart-shape over the base of the pancake pan, then plain batter is poured on top and cooked. When turned out, the heart-shape is revealed. Flipping clever!

16/12/2020
  • Serves 4
  • Timing: 30 mins
Rating
Votes: 4 Average: 2

Ingredients

Everyday Favourites plain flour 150g
Everyday Favourites salt Pinch
Tate & Lyle caster sugar 2 tsp
Everyday Favourites eggs 2
Milk 350ml
Unsweetened cocoa powder 2 tbsp blended with 3 tbsp hot water
A few drops of vegetable oil
For the decoration
Strawberries, halved 150g
Blueberries 100g
Lyle’s Golden Syrup, for drizzling

Method

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  1. Put the flour, salt, caster sugar, eggs and milk into a mixing bowl and whisk together to make a smooth batter. Pour about one quarter of this batter into a separate bowl and beat in the cocoa mixture to make chocolate batter.
  2. Put the chocolate batter into a squeezy bottle (you could use a rinsed-out washing up bottle for this). Heat a non-stick frying pan and add a few drops of vegetable oil. Remove from the heat. Using the squeezy bottle, carefully ‘draw’ a heart shape over the base of the pan. Heat gently until just set.
  3. Ladle plain batter over and around the surface of the heart shape. Cook lightly until the batter just sets on the surface, then flip the pancake over to reveal the heart shape on the cooked side. Cook for another 1-2 minutes, then turn out onto a warm plate. Make 4 pancakes like this, keeping them in a warm place as you make them.
  4. Serve the pancakes with strawberries and blueberries, drizzled with syrup.
Cook’s tip: Get creative! Draw several heart shapes with the chocolate batter before pouring in the plain batter. Or ‘draw’ whatever you like!
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