Flipping Out: Pancake recipes

Never fear, The Skinny is here to help with some carefully crafted recipes taking in the finest of the year’s trendiest diets, including just a few of those cautioned against by the British Dietetic Association.

Vegan pancakes

Yes, pancakes can be vegan, who’d have thought it?! And despite not including any eggs, milk or butter, they’re still, surprisingly, not bad… 

Ingredients
150g plain flour
2 tbsp caster sugar
2 tbsp baking powder (tablespoons, NOT teaspoons!)
Pinch of salt
300ml water/almond milk/soya milk/coconut milk (take your pick!)
1 tbsp oil (olive/rapeseed/sunflower; whichever you prefer)

Makes 9 American-style pancakes
1. Chuck the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and mix.
2. Make a well in the middle and add your wet ingredients (whichever ones you’ve decided to opt for), then fold the mixture together gently to make it nice and airy.
3. Heat a lightly oiled frying pan and then ladle portions of the mixture into aforementioned frying pan – when bubbles pop on the surface it’s time to flip, then cook on the other side. You’ll probably manage to cook all of these in two or three batches.

Serving Suggestion
Have them with whatever the hell you want, but remember no honey, butter or bacon! Why god, why?! Don’t get too upset though, for all is not lost! Why not try topping with a banana and some maple syrup? Or you could stew some tasty summer berries in a pan, over a medium heat, with a bit of sugar for 5 minutes, until it has a jam-like consistency, then pour over and devour!

Gluten free pancakes

This simple internet-smashing recipe kills two metaphorical dietary birds with one literal banana, being as it is both gluten and dairy free. And it actually tastes quite nice too!

Ingredients
A banana
2 eggs

Serves 2
1. Mash up the banana.
2. Whisk the eggs.
3. Mix the eggs with the banana.
4. Fry the mixture as you would when making normal pancakes.
5. Eat the pancakes.

Hygge pancakes

Last year the UK went mad for appropriating Danish pseudo-fascist cosiness in the form of hygge, branded onto everything from cashmere socks to books of inspiring quotations. It seems to be on the wane in 2017, but as it’s still winter there should still be a place in your life for blankets, candlelight and never complaining about anything, ever.

To make your hygge pancakes, first you must set the scene. You probably have a lovely cosy kitchen with a wood burning stove, so light that. You should also turn off all the electric lights and cover every surface with some twinkly scented candles (ideally in a Scandinavian pine scent for an authentically Danish experience) to fill the space with a cosy glow. Put on your cashmere socks, and your jumper that’s like that one that Sofie Gråbøl wears in The Killing. You are now hygge.

An important element of hygge is cake eating and being relaxed about cosy things, so it’s important to choose a recipe that features Nigella-levels of indulgence and creaminess. For this recipe, you should start as if making a strawberry sponge cake, but give up halfway through and just fry the mixture cos waiting for an oven to heat up is totally not hygge.

This Jamie Oliver one sounds nice. Just do that up until the baking (halfway through step 4), and instead of putting it in the oven, fry it.

6:1 Diet pancakes

Bad news, this is your fasting day. No pancakes for you.

Raw Food pancakes

Get an egg. Break the egg into a glass. Drink the egg.

Packaging-free pancakes

You’re going to have to get creative with your sourcing for this one. You should be able to stick to the standard pancake recipe (roughly one cup flour to one egg to one pint milk), but you’ll have to spend a lot of time on the farm to find those ingredients, sans packaging.

Serves 4
1. Find a chicken. Encourage it to lay an egg (NB find out how to encourage a chicken to lay an egg in advance). Take the chicken’s egg.
2. Next, find a cow, or someone who has access to a cow. Make sure the cow is producing milk. Take some of the cow’s milk, ideally in some sort of bucket or other non-disposable vessel.
3. Packaging free flour is a little more challenging, but not impossible. Find someone with a really big bag of flour, maybe in some sort of whole food shop, and fill your pockets with it. Alternatively, go straight to the source at the flour mill and again fill your pockets with that sweet sweet white powder.
4. Normally you’d add some salt at this stage but who has time to travel to a salt flat (also think of that carbon footprint) or desalinate some sea water? Just leave it out.
5. Mix it all together
6. Fry it. You could maybe make some butter out of that milk you nicked from the cow earlier.

Paleo pancakes

Pancakes weren’t invented until the Neolithic era, so sadly there will be no pancakes for you either. Get back to chewing on that raw bison meat.

#eatclean #pancakes

It’s hard to know exactly what clean eating means, apart from a catch-all term to exploit people’s insecurities and make top dollar on Instagram. We understand it to mean 'wash your food'. Easy enough with your eggs, more challenging when it comes to the flour. 

Teatox pancakes

Tea and its associated products are really having a moment. If you’re in the middle of a caffeine-fuelled detox, why not try these delicious matcha pancakes? Caveat: we haven’t made these, they might be poisonous and they probably taste disgusting.

To make these deadly pancakes, simply replace the flour in any of the pancake recipes above with antioxidant-rich super food matcha powdered green tea. You will end up with some pancakes which are very bright green, very expensive (approximately £25 per batch on matcha powder alone) and probably taste like shit. The caffeine would most definitely cause some sort of fit also. Enjoy!