Mmmmm Pancakes!

Today is Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday which is traditionally a day of feasting before fasting for 40 days of Lent.

We love Pancake Day, so I made us lots and lots of pancakes for dinner tonight. I tend to make the thin, crepe style pancakes as you can eats lots of them before you become full and that way can try out many, many different fillings.

In preparation of tonight’s pancake feasting, I have made some felt bean bag pancakes for Harry to play with. We had lots of fun seeing who can flip the pancakes the highest in the toy frying pan.

Felt beanbag pancakes

Cut out two circles of felt, making sure that they will fit inside your toy frying pan or on a little plate. Using a running stitch sew the two pancakes together, leaving a gap through which you add a small amount of dried lentils or rice, then sew the gap closed.

Crepe style pancakes

110g Plain flour
Pinch of salt
1 large egg plus one egg yolk, beaten
290ml full fat milk
1 tbsp veg oil

Sift flour and salt in to a bowl, make a well and stir in the eggs and a little of the milk.
Continue to stir in the rest of the milk and then add the oil, mix together. Put the mixture in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Add a little butter to a non stick frying pan and heat, then pour in just enough mixed to cover the base of the pan and make a thin pancake.
Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, until the pancake is ready to be turned, if you are feeling brave you can now flip your pancake over (or use a fish slice) cook for 1 to 2 minutes on the other side.
Remove from the pan and spread a filling of your choice before rolling it up.

Harry and I like most fillings; ice-cream, banana, stewed apple and vanilla yoghurt, maple syrup, blueberries, apple and cinnamon... anything as long as it is sweet, Luke’s favourite is plain caster sugar and a squeeze of lemon. Little Ollie is not quite ready for pancakes yet so had fruit and vanilla yoghurt, but we did give him a little taste of ice-cream, which he loved and after the initial shock of the cold he kept on licking his lips wanting more.

After our massive pancake consumption before bed, Luke read Harry this book, which we all found very funny.

(Warning – the wolf eats more than just pancakes)

Pancake Day was great!