Apple Pie Pancakes: Easy recipe with the flavours of apple pie

 Apple Pie Pancakes are the best recipe when you want to eat an apple pie, but don’t have the time or patience to make a pie. These eggless pancakes full of apple pie flavour make a wonderful breakfast when apples are in season.

Bear with me. More kiddie recipes coming your way. It’s holiday time and I’m trying to combine my love for cooking, my son’s gourmet palate and his endless two week long vacation to do something productive.

I keep buying a couple of kilos of apple each time, with intentions of making an apple pie. As the days progress, with my decreasing pie-making resolve, the apples start going into salads, with peanut butter for my snack or just hang around in the fruit basket until they die a slow death.

Today, son and me, came up with this idea. So what if we don’t make pie, we can make pie like apple pie pancakes. And that’s how this came about. He helped chop the apples, measure out the ingredients and we made these together to the endless patter of “mummy, I will FLIP the pancakes. I love flipping.”

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 It was so delicious and we nearly had a fork fight towards the end for the last bit. This makes a perfect holiday breakfast or an after school snack. Just keep the apples prepped and the batter prepared before they’re back from school and two minutes is all it takes.

I’ve made this a tad healthier by replacing part of the refined flour by whole wheat flour. Orange zest is entirely optional, but I believe it adds a lot of flavour to the mix. Use a fine grater to grate the skin of the orange, but ensuring you don’t grate any of the bitter white part.

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Apple Pie Pancakes: Kid in the kitchen

 Apple Pie Pancakes are the best recipe when you want to eat an apple pie, but don't have the time or patience to make a pie. These pancakes full of apple pie flavour make a wonderful breakfast when apples are in season.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 20 minutes mins

Servings: 2 people

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 1/2 cup flour refined
• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 tsp white vinegar
• 2 apples
• 1 tsp butter + some more to cook pancakes
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp orange zest (optional)
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder

Method

 

1. To prepare apple pie pancakes, in a bowl, mix the flours, baking powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon powder with a whisk.
2. Make a well, add 1/2 cup milk and vinegar.
3. Gently mix together with a fork. Add a couple more splashes of milk if the pancake mixture is too dry. Let this batter rest for 10 minutes.
4. Scrub and wash apples well. Core the apples and dice them into small pieces with skin.
5. Heat 1 tsp butter in non stick pan. Add the diced apples, sugar, cinnamon powder, orange zest and toss them under low flame for 5 minutes or so, until apples are slightly soft and nicely golden.
6. Wipe the non stick skillet dry and place on medium heat, grease with some butter and pour a ladle full of batter. Do not spread out the batter.
7. Dot some butter around the pancake. When you see bubbles around the edges, it is time to flip over.
8. Each side takes around 2 mins to cook and get golden, this depends on the thickness of your pancakes though.
9. Once done, remove on a plate and top with a layer of prepared apples. Fold over or serve as it is.

Notes

To make Vegan Apple Pie Pancakes, replace milk with soy milk or any nut milk and the butter with an oil of choice.

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