Make it: Pancakes

It's pancake day tomorrow, which just means it gives me the extra excuse to eat and make pancakes for the whole of my meal!

I do like the usual crepe style pancakes but I have been trying out some different recipes this time, again, this is probably just so that I can eat more pancakes!

I got this recipe for American style pancakes from Marvellous Miss M:

For 2 portions (6 pancakes), you will need:

1/2 tablespoon of baking powder

tiny pinch of salt - you might want to leave this out if you are using salted butter or any kind of margerine

1/2 teaspoon caster sugar

1 large egg

15g margarine or melted and cooled butter

150ml milk

113g plain flour

butter / margarine to fry

whichever toppings you want! Personally it's just good old lemon and sugar for me.

Mix all the ingredients together in a blender or with a whisk.  Cook as usual.

For a healthier choice, I found this recipe on Pinterest somewhere.  There are so many versions of this, that you can really make it your own.

Makes about 6 small pancakes:
1 Banana
1 Egg
fresh or dried fruit. I used dry fruit for this one but I think some fresh fruit would be nicer. Just my preference!

Squash the banana and add the egg till its mixed, add the fruit and voila.  Just pop a few spoonfuls in a pan and cook as usual.

So that gives you a few things to try tomorrow evening.
Yummy
H

Make it: Ginger Biscuits

Last week I became a bit obsessed about making Ginger Biscuits!  I wanted to make something for a volunteer afternoon at work and so I decided on biscuits rather than cake and of course I had to have a dry run earlier in the week and so my colleagues got a very biscuit friendly week!

This was the recipe that Jane Horrocks recently used for The Great Sport Relief Bake Off and aparently Paul Hollywood's mum uses the same recipe, so it must be good!  I found the recipe on another blog: http://busybutterfingers.blogspot.co.uk/

They are so simple to make and you are most likely to have most of the ingredients already which is always a good start.  They do go hard really quickly, which I like, but you do have to have strong teeth or a good cuppa to dip them in!  I also added stem ginger to mine to make them extra Gingery, but you can leave out if you prefer.

Recipe

110g unsalted butter

110g brown sugar

110g golden syrup

225g self-raising flour

2 tsp ground ginger
50g Stem Ginger

Instructions

1.  Preheat oven to 180*C and grease baking sheets.

2.  Melt butter, sugar and syrup in a saucepan gently until all melted together.

3.  Remove from the heat and add the dry ingredients to make a dough.

4.  Make into balls about a 50p size – do not flatten.

5.  Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

6.  Allow to cool and try not to eat them all!

If you try them out, let me know.  I also made some chocolate chip versions with a smaller amount of golden syrup and they seemed to stay softer for longer.  So do play around with the recipe and let me know what you get up to!

H