Finnish Baked Pancakes: Hot Breakfast Challenge

This week Fab Food Friday shares two of her favorite recipes. I am thankful for her guest post since I had a set back this morning. I woke up exhausted, achy and with a pretty upset stomach. The kids had requested biscuits, but I just couldn’t get myself into the kitchen. I resorted to…. CEREAL!!!! I almost didn’t admit to it, but I want to be honest. This could have been prevented if I had waffles, pancakes, or muffins in my freezer, but they were consumed while I was away at Blissdom.

I will post more on freezing breakfast items later, but for now enjoy two delicious recipes from Fab Food Friday.

I enjoy being in my kitchen. I love to cook for my family and quite
often my daughters “help”. All the recipes I feature have been taste tested
in our kitchen- where we are often joined by extended family and friends-
and have received the top compliment of “dewishous” by the kids.

This is my current favorite easy, yummy breakfast.   It looks
really fancy and will impress everyone.  My kids love that they have fruit
in an edible bowl!

Finnish Baked Pancakes

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs (let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes)
• 1/2 c all-purpose flour
• 1/2 c milk
• 1/4 c butter, melted
• 1/4 t almond extract (I used maple and I’m gonna say vanilla would be fine,
• too)
• 1/4 t finely shredded lemon peel (completely optional- fine without it)
• Fresh fruits or other yummy stuff to put in it
• Powdered sugar, honey or maple syrup

Directions:

In a medium bowl beat the eggs with a wire whisk until they are frothy. Add
flour, milk, 2 T of the melted butter and the almond extract. Beat until
smooth. Stir in lemon peel and set aside.

Heat skillets (or pan) in a 450 degree oven for 2 minutes. Divide the
remaining 2 T between the two skillets (or put it all in the 8″ pan) and
swirl to coat the pan. Pour batter into hot skillet. (You will see the
butter gather around the edges. The butter will all go into the center and
bake into the pancake. Mmmm…) Bake in the 450 degree oven about 15
minutes, or until puffed and golden. The inside will puff up- don’t worry,
it deflates as the pancake cools.

To serve remove pancake from oven. It slips right out of the pan. Spoon your
fruit (or whatever you choose to fill the pancake with) into the center of
the pancake and add powdered sugar or syrup.

Crepes

Crepes aren’t just for breakfast…

They are wonderful for lunch wrapped around chicken or tuna salad or for dessert with ice cream and chocolate.

Of course they are wonderful at breakfast with fruits and whipped cream.

Ingredients:

• 3/4 c + 1 T all purpose flour
• 3 T superfine sugar (I pulsed regular sugar in my Magic Bullet for a couple
• seconds – it’s one of my most used appliances)
• 1/8 t salt
• 1 3/4 c milk
• 2 large eggs
• unsalted butter

Whisk together flour, sugar and salt in a large bowl (I used a plastic
measuring pitcher for easy pouring). In a medium bowl (I used a the blender
on my Magic Bullet) whisk together milk and eggs. While whisking flour
mixture slowly add milk mixture and whisk until smooth.

Heat an 8 or 9 inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Rub with butter. Pour
in about 3 T of the batter. Tilt and rotate pan until batter is evenly
spread. Cook until top is dry and bottom is golden brown in spots, about 3
minutes. Gently flip over and cook one minute more.

Remove to plate.

Now you can eat immediately or store (using Glad products, hence the ad) by
placing first crêpe on a sheet of plastic wrap, placing another sheet of
plastic wrap on top of it and alternating between crêpes and plastic until
you have finished cooking. Then store in refrigerator up to 3 days. You can
heat in microwave (with the plastic wrap if you use Press N Seal) for one
minute.

A note on flipping… use a thin and wide spatula and move slowly. You may
destroy a couple crêpes until you get the hang of it. They may not be pretty
but they’ll still be edible!

What have you made this week? Please link up with your breakfast recipe or challenge post. Link back so others can participate too. And please visit other participants and encourage one another in ditching the cereal for a month!

Are you running out of Hot Breakfast ideas? This week Laura from Heavenly Homemakers has offered to give one away to you! This cookbook is filled with great recipes, pictures and ideas for a healthy breakfast. In order to win a copy of  Think Breakfast… Outside of the Box visit my Menu Plan Monday post and leave a comment on that post.