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Gary's pancakes with vanilla bean cream: Today

Light, fluffy and topped with a luscious vanilla cream.
Light, fluffy and topped with a luscious vanilla cream.

Light, fluffy and topped with a luscious vanilla cream.

Ingredients

Nutella & berry compote:

  • 1 mug flour
  • 1 mug of whole milk
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 heaped tsp baking powder
  • 1 large pinch salt
  • Butter for cooking
  • Icing sugar for dusting at the end

Fresh berry compote:

  • 1 punnet raspberries
  • ½ punnet strawberries, quartered
  • ½ tub blueberries
  • ½ tub blackberries
  • 2 tsp caster sugar

Vanilla bean cream:

  • 250ml cream
  • 3 tsp vanilla bean paste with beans
  • 2 tbsp icing sugar

To serve:

Chocolate spread

Method

For the pancake mix:

  1. Place all the ingredients into a large bowl and mix until incorporated.
  2. Do not over-mix. Set aside for 10 minutes.

Cream:

  1. Place all the ingredients into a stand mixer and whip until stiff.
  2. Remove and spoon into a piping bag and place into the fridge until needed.

Berry compote:

  1. Sprinkle the sugar over the berries and fold until glossy.
  2. Set aside at room temperature

Pancakes:

  1. Heat a large non-stick frying pan.
  2. Add in a few knobs of butter and let it melt.
  3. Then dip a potato mash scoop into the mix and fill. One full scoop is a perfect size for a pancake. Cook 3-4 pancakes at a time.
  4. When bubbles start to form on the top the pancake is ready to flip. Cook 1-2 mins on each side.

To serve:

  1. Serve 2 pancakes per person with some Nutella or other chocolate spread.
  2. Dust with icing sugar then add a large rosette of vanilla bean cream followed by a decent spoonful of fresh berry compote.