Shopping list for 12 Flemish pancakes
300 ml milk
3 free range eggs
sachet vanilla sugar
150g flour
50g butter
180g dark chocolate
100ml double cream
a tub vanilla ice cream
On Pancake Day we make Flemish pancakes, delicious with a chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream on the side! Our Flemish neighbors also put in a splash of Orange liqueur but that's not suitable for snazzie's mini-monsters of course!
Melt the chocolate au bain marie in the double cream.
Pour the milk in a bowl and break the eggs in it.
Beat the milk with the eggs and the vanilla sugar frothy.
Add the flour to the milk / egg mix and beat it smooth.
Melting 'au bain marie'
1.Break the chocolate into small pieces and add to a heatproof bowl.
2. Add a little boiling water to a saucepan and heat until simmering.
3. Suspend the bowl over the simmering water, but do not allow the base of the bowl to touch the water.
4. Heat the chocolate, stirring regularly, until almost melted, then remove from the heat; the residual heat of the bowl will melt any remaining lumps.
Your batter should look like this now..
Bake the pancakes golden in a knob of butter.
Fold the pancakes in a triangle.
Serve the pancakes hot with a drizzle of chocolate sauce and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side.
Happy Pancake Day!