For the first time this year we have been able to celebrate Pancake Day properly - you see for much of Keani's little life (she's only 5) she has been allergic to eggs, so pancakes in previous years have been a no go.
Thankfully, she is growing out of her egg allergy and can tolerate cooked egg, which means, hurrah! we can all eat pancakes. Fancy fillings, and expensive ingredients are out though, Keani is only 5 and Dexter 3 and we do have Keani's nut allergy to contend with too.
Anyhow inspired by some biscuit cutters the kids received from Santa, we decided to go about making our own biscuit cutter inspired pancakes.
We took a basic pancake recipe and made 3 lots of batter. One a normal 'batter' colour, and the other 2 coloured with food dye, one a dark purple (for Dexter) and one pink (for Keani).
We then cooked the regular batter and flipped our pancakes. Once the pancakes had cooled slightly, the kids got their biscuit cutters (heart shaped for Keani, scull and crossbone shaped for Dexter) and cut their shapes out of the pancakes.
We then made 2 more pancakes, one pink and one purple - taking care not to burn them. Food colouring makes them more susceptible to burning I find!
The kids then cut their shapes out of the purple and pink pancakes, and inserted them into the original pancakes.
And............. ta dahhhhhhhh!
Dexter was being more receptive to the photoshoot at this point, hence him posing with Keani's pancakes!
I managed to bribe Keani to pose a little in this pic. Dexter is looking a little bit cheeky on this one!
We decorated the pancakes with a little golden syrup and some bananas and strawberries and they went down a treat.
This is my entry into the Tots100/Center Parcs Pancake Day Challenge
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