Pancakes on this cold, wintery day.

Today was a day for pancakes in Cape Town. The rain was pouring, the wind was howling and nothing seemed more right than inviting friends over for a batch of pancakes with sliced banana, toffee sauce and ofcourse cinnamon sugar, golden syrup and lemon juice.

It is such a quick mixture to just whip up and make and therefore we will share it with all of you.

Pancakes: (serves 8)

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 1 cup (250ml) Flour
• 1 cup (250ml) Milk 




Ingredients for the pancake batter. (Batter in the bowl) I made a double quantity (hence the 2 eggs)

 

Method:



Sift the flour into a bowl. Make a well in the center and add the egg and milk and mix brisky with a whisk, ensuring no lumps are visible.

Heat a non stick pan, lightly greased... and start frying.

Flip the pancakes when they begin to curl at the edges.

serve hot with lemon juice, cinnamon sugar and syrup



Success! Delicious, golden pancakes.

 To make the toffee sauce is easy too! here is the recipe:

Nigella Lawson's Sticky Toffee sauce:

Ingredients:

1. 175g dark brown sugar
2. 30ml/g golden syrup
3. 175g unsalted butter
4. 150ml double cream (don't stress, pouring cream is fine too.)

Method:

Put the sugar, syrup and butter in a saucepan and heat slowly, allowing the butter to melt and the sugar to dissolve. Bring to the boil for a few minutes.

Add the cream, cook for a further 2 minutes.

The sauce should be dark in colour, glossy and sticky.

In this Post we refer to a recipe from Nigella Lawson's "Feast" book.