Just yummy

According to my daughter one of her stuffed animals needed to celebrate her birthday today. She dressed "Muisie" up in one of her princess outfits and insisted on having a little snack to celebrate so I made some pancakes.

Here's my recipe for pancakes Belgian style, or pannenkoeken as we call them:

250 grams of selfrising flour

2 eggs

50 grams of sugar

1 packet of vanilla sugar

500 ml milk

drop of olive oil

Whisk the eggs together. Add the milk while stirring. Add sugar and vanilla sugar. Keep stirring. Finally add the flour and stir some more. Add just a drop of oil to make the pancakes stick a little less.

I must admit that I suffer from the "first-pancake sydrome": I never seem to get the first one just right. So don't be discouraged if the first one sticks! I use just a drop of olive oil in a non-stick medium sized pan. I find it difficult to pour just 'a drop' from a large bottle of olive oil. It's a technique I seem to master by the time I bake my last pancake :)

Belgian pancakes are thinner than American ones and we mostly eat them with white sugar (the powdery kind) or brown sugar. I pour about half of a soupserving spoon into the pan and then lift the pan up and turn it so the batter covers the entire bottom of the pan. It's all in the wrist ;)

We had some with strawberries and freshly whipped cream. Do you know how easy it is to make freshly whipped cream? Just add half the amount of sugar to your cream (so for 100 ml of cream you would use 50 grams of sugar) and use your mixer for about 1-2 minutes. If you can hold the jar upside down without spilling, you know it's ready :) And I promise you it tastes a lot better than the kind that comes from a spray can.