baked pancake

Nothing says slow weekend mornings like a breakfast table laden with pancakes and all the trimmings. There is, however, just one niggling issue with them: it's not the greatest time for the person cooking them. Pancakes are best straight out of the pan, & you can generally only make one or two at a time. So the nominated pancake cook doles them out onto the plates of beaming and satisfied loved ones, who sit down to enjoy them while they're still steaming. The cook, on the other hand either eats theirs standing up or waits to the end to sit down and enjoy theirs. Those pancakes have the cook on a tight leash.

Enter Oven Pancakes. They go by a few names: Dutch Puff, Dutch babies, German pancakes, Bismarck, Hooligans and Hootenannies!  Personally I would like to call them Freedom Pancakes because they free the cook - they're baked in the oven as one giant pancake before being sliced into portions and topped with whatever you fancy. 

If, instead of standing over the stove for 30 mins, you like the idea of sitting down to leisurely enjoy a cuppa while a delicious, high & light pancake bakes in the oven, then this is the recipe for you.