I love pancakes and I love Shrove Tuesday. Pancakes are one
of my fave things to have for breakfast or for a snack so having a day where I
can eat them for any meal is a bonus!
Yes I understand there is more of a background to Shrove
Tuesday than just flipping pancakes. To be honest the day always reminds me of being
at school cos I knew that the next day we would have to receive our ashes with
it being Ash Wednesday. The nuns would be dotted all over school (I went to a
convent school) on Ash Wednesday and there was no escape from getting that
thumb printed black smudge on my forehead signalling the start of Lent.
Anyway… I digress… this post is meant to be about pancakes,
not ashes!
Last week Sainsburys got in touch and asked me would I like
to create a new pancake recipe which I readily agreed to. I’ve always preferred the American style/scotch
pancakes cos that’s what we can buy at home. You can’t beat one toasted with
grated cheese on top!
I got thinking about toppings and flavours and I knew I
wanted to create something different. The rhubarb festival had been on in
Wakefield weekend before last so that got me thinking and then it dawned on me –
rhubarb crumble pancakes!
I got so excited cos I love rhubarb crumble but for the life
of me I could not find any rhubarb in the shops. I tried Sainsburys, Asda,
Morrisons and Waitrose and they were either sold out or just weren’t selling
it. I was determined though that my pancakes would be crumble in some way and
while I was stood in the fruit aisle I spotted some raspberries and decided
raspberry crumble would work quite well too.
I decided to use Nigella’s community recipe for the pancakes
and adapted Delia’s recipe for the crumble and it worked really well. I’m still
determined to try it with rhubarb though so I’ll be keeping an eye out for it
next time I’m shopping.
Raspberry Crumble Pancakes
350ml buttermilk
1 egg
50g butter (melted)
10 ml vanilla extract
125g plain flour
40g caster sugar
3g bicarbonate of soda
2g baking powder
4g salt
Crumble
40g butter
25g soft brown sugar
75g plain flour
150g raspberries
2tbsp caster sugar
- Put the wet and dry ingredients (from the pancake ingredients) into separate bowls and whisk.
- Slowly add the wet mix to the dry and lightly whisk until all of the flour is combined.
- Heat the frying pan on a low heat and using some kitchen paper rub some oil onto the pan.
- Drop a 1/4 cup scoop of batter onto the pan (I used my measuring cups)
- After a few minutes the top will start to bubble and once it looks firm around the edges you can flip it.
- Now while the pancakes are cooking you can get on with the crumble mixture. For speed I used my food processor but you can use your hands.
- Add the flour, butter and sugar to the food processor and blitz until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Put the sugar and raspberries in a pan and cook on a low heat until the raspberries begin to soften and release some juice.
- Back to the pancakes! Once the last pancake has been cooked place them on a plate in the oven to keep warm.
- Turn the heat up on your frying pan to medium and then quickly dry fry the crumble mix until it is a light brown in colour. Be careful not to burn cos it will burn very easily (trust me I found out the hard way!)
- Once the crumble is cooked, remove the pancakes from the oven, stack on a plate, place the fruit on top, drizzle the pancakes with some of the juice from the fruit and sprinkle over the crumble topping.
You can either go for one massive
stack on lots of smaller ones.
Enjoy!
*Sainsburys
provided me with the ingredients for this post but all thoughts and comments
are my own.*
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