STICKY TOFFEE PANCAKES

PANCAKE DAY

Fabulous family time with my gorgeous son making sumptuous pancakes for his dad, Oscar choose to make his dad's favourite sticky toffee filling with a double cream and toffee sauce!  The best part of Pancake Day is the grand pancake tossing competition which is a wonderfully noisy and seriously messy, every toss gets a verbal drum roll followed with score cards and a lot of banter commentary, which is finally followed by groaning bellies and no room for supper!

Ingredients

(makes 6 lrg pancakes)

Pancake Batter

125g self rising flour sieved

2 eggs

1/2 pint gold top milk

100g soft brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

Sticky Toffee Filling and Sauce

220ml double cream

4 tbsp black treacle

2 tbsp golden syrup

110g butter

110g soft dark brown sugar

To make the pancake batter, whisk the eggs and milk together until light and airy, whisk in the sugar and vanilla extract, then slowly whisk in the flour until just incorporated, this is so you don't knock the air out of the mixture, keeping your pancakes light and fluffy.

Next make the sticky toffee sauce, place all the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a medium simmer for a couple of minutes, then remove off the heat and reserve to one side, this sauce will set to a consistency of thick jam when cold.

Heat a non stick pan to medium hot, this is important, if the pan is not hot enough your pancakes may be floppy and stodgy, add a tiny dash of oil to the hot pan and pour in one large ladle of the pancake batter, encourage the batter to naturally fill to the edges of the pan with the back of the ladle, when you see air holes popping on the pancake it is ready to toss, exciting and noisy moment in my house!!!  Once tossed and successfully back in the pan cook the other side for one minute, remove from the pan and reserve on a warm plate while you make the rest of the batch.

Spread the sticky toffee sauce all over the pancake, roll or fold and then drizzle with more of the sticky toffee sauce and enjoy.  Why not add sliced bananas, chopped nuts, dates and thick creamy cream or vanilla ice-cream.