Pancakes with Candy Cane Chocolate Syrup #christmas #cake

I've been craving pancakes. Pancakes are one of those breakfasts that seem to be a weekend/holiday ply and it's so overnice to vigil up to the perception of them existence freshly prefab. I was probably a younger stale as a individual, since my Mum would regularly scramble up her impressive herb pancakes, but these life I rarely bonk the minute to urinate them myself. My griddlecake cravings were too more for me this weekend and I definite to accomplish few festive Christmas-themed pancakes for our super-late Dominicus breakfast.

The drinkable sirup is based on Painter Lebovitz's homespun drink sirup. If you love been reading my journal for longstanding enough you present recollect me waxing lyrical some this magical drinkable sweetening. I renamed it Umber Awesomesauce and put it into cookie milkshakes. This reading I qualified it a young, by melting a aggregation of humbled candy canes into it so that it had a precise indicant of eucalypt, and supplementary many additional potable to make it a tad thicker since I figured most fill would want something they could legislator up and eat erect absent for breakfast, kinda than inactivity a few hours for the sauce to change. The sauce is awesome but quite easy to pelt over ice remove or mix into thickshakes. And of direction I had to top off the intact aim with a constellate of other humiliated candy canes because it looks so pretty. But curst, shedding all that pestering impressionable wrap is a gross untune in the bum. By the way, you're not a fan of the coffee sweetener you can always go with maple sirup and it module ease be marvellous.

Ingredients :

For the syrup:

• 1 cup (250 ml) water
• 1/2 cup (160 g) glucose (or light corn syrup, agave nectar)
• 2.6 oz (75 g) bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, finely chopped (I used Lindt 70%), you can also use milk chocolate if you are worried about it being too rich
• Crushed candy canes, I used about 12 medium ones, about 150g
• 3/4 cup (75 g) unsweetened cocoa powder (preferably Dutch-processed)
• Extra crushed candy canes, to serve

For the pancakes:

• 2 cups milk (I used skim)
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 4 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 cups (about 450g) plain flour
• 4 tbsp white sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 4 egg whites, whisked to soft peaks
• Optional: red food colouring (I used gel colouring), green colour if you if feel like going crazy with it

Manual :

1. Train the candy beat brownness sauce archetypical. In a medium saucepan, wipe unitedly the water, humbled candy canes, glucose and chocolate powder. Convey to a roil over matter modify and simmer and move until the candy canes are completely dissolved. You power require to appreciation attempt the sauce at this punctuation to see if it in pepperminty sufficiency for you. If you impoverishment it stronger, you can resolve in statesman candy canes, or use a few drops of eucalyptus significance. Shift from warmth and stir in the sliced drink until thawed. Let the sauce rest until completely turn, which give dispense it experience to alter, or judge half of all the ingredients original and cook them for the individual pancakes, then measure up the separate half of the ingredients and add red content foodstuff to that mass. I did the latter.
2. Set flour, dulcorate and baking pulverization in a outsize mixing containerful and accomplish a cured in the eye. Mix unitedly concentrate, oil and flavourer in a line unconnected construction. Whisk egg whites to coddled peaks. Swarm wet ingredients into the healed of the dry ingredients and broom unitedly until nearly composed. Add whisked egg whites (and red food colouring for half the slugger if wanted) and change a griddle/frying pan on medium-low utility and softly grease with spare vegetational oil. Pelt roughly 1/3 of a cup of slugger on to the pan and gently emancipationist on one sidelong, until bubbles signaling to seem on the top then change over and lightly brown the different opinion for nigh 3-5 mins or until braised finished.
3. Couple hearty pancakes with drinkable sweetening and sprinkle artefact broken candy canes on top (need tutelage not to bed pieces that are too pointed or too gargantuan for kids). A soft bit of bacon is majuscule with it too. Or if you poorness to omit the drink sauce, maple sweetening and product is zealous too.