14: Home-made instant pancake mix [with vanilla ice cream and maple syrup] (Page 92, Nigella Express)

This morning when I woke up, I decided that I would make the sweet pancakes as well as the savoury pancakes. Perhaps I was slightly ambitious. All I can say is, that I will definitely be getting the most out of my gym membership with all the eating I've been doing. Since I managed to successfully finish 10 savoury pancakes with a diameter of 3 cm and 3 sweet pancakes with a diameter of 13 cm.

Nigella's recipe is about making the pancake mix, and saving it for instances for when you want to make pancakes and then adding the rest of the ingredients. Since I didn't want 600 + grams of pancake mix lying around I roughly divided the recipe a bit to get the right amount for one batch of pancakes.

Nigella's recipe:
600g plain flour
3 tbsp baking powder
2 tsp bicarbonate soda
1 tsp salt
40g sugar

My recipe:
142g flour (1 cup)
0.75 tbsp baking powder + 0.5 tsp baking powder (since I didn't have bicarbonate soda)
0.25 tsp salt
10g sugar

So my recipe wasn't exactly correct, but I needed approximately 150g of pancake mix since Nigella's recipe continues with "For each 150g of pancake mix add 1 egg, 250ml milk, 1 tbsp melted butter". I think I managed to get pretty close to 150g with my proportions of the ingredients.

The zucchini pancake mix was not as runny as this mix so it was a lot easier to cook evenly. My first two attempts at making a normal pancake turned out pretty abysmal, half burnt and a little undercooked at the same time. The above picture is a photo of my last 3 pancakes from bottom to top. So I got a lot better at managing to cook them evenly so that they turned golden brown and although the photo just makes them look burnt (they didn't taste burnt, but I will probably lower the heat next time).

I will be attempting the recipe for pancakes from TNBR next week, although I found the ingredients to be very similar to Nigella's recipe except for the addition of some lemon. Both books also suggest serving with blueberry syrup but I don't know how I feel about frozen blueberries so I just served mine with some ice cream and maple syrup.

Sorry to disappoint but I didn't attempt any fancy pancake flipping (not that easy to do with a wok because if I do it wrong my wrist might snap). Hahaha.