Happy Pancake Day! Since it’s Pancake Day, I made some pancakes with the boys as we do every year. Instead of the traditional lemon and sugar topping, I thought it would be fun to make a sweet shop theme and put different sweet toppings in bowls for the boys to sprinkle over their pancakes themselves, to decorate however they like.
To make the pancakes, I used a simple recipe from The Brick Castle for which you will need:
175g Plain Flour
2 Free Range Eggs
300ml Milk
150ml Water
Pinch of Salt
Click through to The Brick Castle blog above if you need the method, Jenny explains it very well in a step by step guide.
The boys love to help out and were eager to weigh out the ingredients
and to mix
It was lovely to see Mr Z and Mr T working together as a team.
They mixed all the pancake batter for me, and then came time to cook the pancakes. I am not particularly good at flipping pancakes. I always worry that I will miss when flipping them up in the air and they land on the floor! So this year, I have tried out a pancake turner from Oxo instead. This worked really well for me, and allowed me to turn the pancakes so easily without any fuss.
The turner is a simple device (you can see Mr T holding it here!) but it made my pancake making quite a bit easier. Oxo Good Grips also do a batter dispenser which you can see in The Brick Castle post linked above, and I quite fancy one of these too to make sure every portion of batter is the same so each pancake will be the same size and equal thickness.
Earlier in that day we had a lovely delivery from Cake Angels with all sorts of exciting bits to decorate cakes
A pancake is kind of a cake right…it does have cake in the name! Anyway, I couldn’t wait to get these out and use them so that’s why our sweet shop theme came from. The boys love nutella or chocolate spread on their pancakes, so I thought we can spread that and then they can sprinkle whatever they like on top. I set out a few of these different toppings in bowls and let them get creative with them.
It was lots of fun!
What toppings will you be having on your pancakes this year?
The pancake turner and Cake Angels toppings are Pr samples
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Your pancakes look great! Really professional and delicious, nice job boys! (and Anna :p )
I adore those little chocolate hearts 🙂
Wow they must have a sweet tooth! A great fun idea for pancakes! We like Nutella and banana pancakes! 🙂
It was quite sweet, you can’t eat a lot of it! But lots of fun for them
Sugar and lemon juice are the favourite here, making chocolate ones tonight with banana and chocolate sauce. #letkidsbekids
These look like so much fun Anna, I fancy giving it a go myself! #pintorials
Great idea. My kids would love sweet shop pancakes.
Thanks for sharing #LetKidsBeKids
This looks like so much fun, neither of my two like pancakes. Sigh. I like mine with lemon and sugar.
that looks like so much fun. Your kids are so cute!
good idea for the sprinkles
I suspect the boys will go for Nutella 🙂 I may put out a few sprinkles for them too! #LetKidsBeKids
Those pancakes look so tasty! And so much fun decorating them. #LetKidsBeKids
My fav is definitely the classic lemon and sugar. Don’t fancy the sweets at all, or at least not on a pancake. Maybe I am just too old for that 😉 Love Meem modeling the pancake flipper holding it out like he is on qvc :p
We enjoyed our pancakes, just the lemon and sugar variety but yours look so much more yummier 🙂
Looks like they had a LOT of fun 🙂
#letkidsbekids
I have pancake FOMO! Didn’t have time yesterday as I was working late, but will endeavour to make mine as yummy as yours!
Looks like lots of fun, we had pancake fun too and the boy had mini marshmallows on his pancake and said it was very yummy!
What a cute idea and a special treat! Totally going to have to do this with my little guy when he gets older 🙂 Thanks for linking up at the MaMade Blog Hop!
Grace says – YES!!!! A pancake post for #minicreations. These look sooooooo yummy
Lucas says – Yum, Yum, in my tum. I’m feeling rather hungry now……..
Thanks for linking up to #minicreations
Looks like brilliant fun to try with the kids. Thanks for joining in with #recipeoftheweek. I’ve Pinned and Tweeted this post and there’s a fresh linky live now. If you haven’t already, please do pop over and join in!