Originally I planned to highlight this blog with my version of Peachy Pancakes, but my daughter, Annalisa beat me to it with her blog, so here’s a link to her blog so you can read about them from her site. In fact I must credit her husband for this idea since he introduced them to me at their house. http://www.annalisala.com/2011/01/15/peachy-oven-pancake/ I will add to this concept by introducing German Pancake or Dutch Babies which is likely a plain version of the Peachy Pancake. Also along this line I’ll mention another fruit version, the apple pancake, that my sister-in-law made for us when we visited her. In all cases these pancakes are baked in the oven and tend to puff up as they bake. I think one could vary the fruit and make many variations of this recipe.
Recently I was watching a television program that my husband taped on the best breakfasts. This show was where I learned about German Pancakes or Dutch Babies. I was so intrigued with the name Dutch Baby that I had to look up a recipe. After reading the recipe, I decided it was actually like the Peachy Pancake without the fruit. So I decided to try making it and had fantastic results. But the first time I forgot to even get a picture, so naturally we had to try it again. The recipe follows with a photo.
Dutch Baby
3 eggs at room temperature 1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup sifted bread flour 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp ground cinnamon 7 tsp butter at room temperature
Powdered sugar (optional) maple syrup
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place an 8″ cast iron skillet rack on a rack in the middle of the oven while you prepare the batter.
Beat eggs until light and fluffy, then beat in milk, vanilla, and cinnamon. Blend in flour using a lower speed until it is incorporated, then beat on higher speed until smooth and creamy.
Remove skillet from oven and add butter, swirling skillet until it is melted and the bottom and part way up the sides of the pan are coated. Pour batter into the hot buttered pan and put in oven.
Bake 20-25 minutes until pancake is fluffy and golden brown. Watch carefully not to burn after 20 minutes as mine was done in just 20 minutes. Remove from oven and serve. Some people dust the pancake with powdered sugar and serve it with maple syrup or jelly or fruit such as strawberries.
I will end this post here since I lost the rest of it when I was distracted. Hope everyone who tries these recipes for baked pancakes finds them as tasty as my family.
