Perfect Pancakes

It's almost one of your favourite days of the year and, no, we don't mean Valentine's Day. Before we even get to that there's Shrove Tuesday, or as we prefer to call it, Pancake Day! There are hundreds of different ways to spice up your pancakes to make them a little different to last year's. Here's what we'll be making on the 12th...

Ingredients

110g plain flour

Pinch of salt

2 eggs

½ pint of milk (can use half water and half milk)

Lotus caramelised biscuit spread

Lotus caramelised biscuits

4 bananas (chopped)

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 tbsp water

1 tbsp brown sugar

Caramel sauce (optional)

Method

-       Sieve the flour and salt into a bowl; add the egg

-       Add ¼ of the milk and stir carefully with a wooden spoon, beat the mixture until it is smooth and then let it stand for 15mins

-       Slowly add and beat together the rest of the milk and then use an egg whisk to get air into the mixture

-       Into a small pan add a dessert spoon of oil and heat until you can see steam rising faintly, pour the mixture on to the pan so that it covers the whole area in a thin layer

-       Cook for 2mins each side

-       To make the filling you will need the bananas, vanilla extract, water, brown sugar and 2 healthy dollops of biscuit spread

-       Heat everything in a pan apart from the bananas on a low to medium heat until the sauce starts to sizzle

-       Add the bananas and caramelise them, add filling to pancakes, sprinkle with crushed Lotus biscuits and serve with vanilla ice-cream 

By Melodie Walter