Toddler Power Pancakes....

People that read this blog regularly will know aside from my love of baking and cake decorating my other food passion is breakfast! It's the meal of the day that I don't mind making something different for Troy, Huddo and myself to meet our needs and preferences to start the day.

Something that Huddo absolutely LOVES is pancakes. I came to realise this one Sunday morning a few months back when we did a rare visit to McDonalds and I ordered him hotcakes. ....He devoured all 3 in the same time it took me to eat a Bacon & Egg roll.

So with this I got thinking about pancakes and what to do to increase their nutritional value so that I could incorporate this fav on a weekly basis. This recipe is what I came up with:

Please note that I do specify gluten-free self-raising flour in this. For my baking at home I have switched to gluten-free plain and self-raising flours as I find it is a little gentler on the gut. However, the recipe works perfectly well with common flours.

Ingredients:
150g Gluten-Free Self-Raising Flour
250mL milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons of Protein Powder
1 tablespoon of Chia Seeds
1 teaspoon of Flaxseed meal (aka Linseed Meal)

1/2 cup of frozen mixed berries
1 tablespoon of maple syrup
bit of butter

Method:
1)In a bowl mix flour, milk and egg.
2)Add protein, chia seeds and flaxseed meal.
3) Have a fry pan on high with a bit of Sunflower oil or butter in the pan.
4) Pour in a tablespoon or 2 of the mixture onto the hot fry pan. Make the pancakes however big you like. I tend to make them more pikelet size.

5)Once several bubbles are occurring in the mixture then flip and cook until both sides are golden.
6)Repeat until have desired serve. I find that this mix makes about 16 pikelet size pancakes and Huddo has 8. Which means generally once, I've made 8 I cover the mixture with glad-wrap and use the rest the next morning.
7) Put frozen berries into a bowl and in the microwave for a minute or until they are very soft and easily mashed with a fork.
8) Add maple syrup to the mashed warm berries.

9)On plate with cooked pancakes, spread a little butter over the pancakes and drizzle the berry syrup. (I find that have the berries with the syrup gives a great amount of flavour without too much sugar from syrup).

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