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Valentines Day Recipes – Heart-Shaped Strawberry Pancakes {Monday Meals} - 2013-02-18 04:46:39-05
Valentines Day was a fun day of cooking for me. If you don’t like to cook, you still might like some of these fun ideas for holidays.
I’m sharing each of my Valentines Day recipes in separate posts. First up is breakfast and heart-shaped pancakes.
This can be little tricky. The first one I made was too small, so I made the others larger. Once you use your spoon to “draw” a heart with the batter. Pour batter in the middle to fill in the heart.
FYI … this can be done for any holiday or shape. On my kids’ birthdays, I make number pancakes for their new age.
I had leftover toasted coconut and toasted pecans, so I used those in our pancakes. You can use whatever filling you like. Obviously, if your child doesn’t like coconut, don’t put it in their pancakes.
Usually, our kids had to eat whatever I made, but these pancakes were easy to adapt. It’s easy to meet each child’s individual tastes in this meal.
After making a heart-shaped pancake, I made a regular pancake. When it was ready, I heated the heart pancake for 5 seconds in the microwave.
The heart-shaped pancake goes on top the round one. Pretty presentation.
Pour your favorite syrup or topping on your pancakes and enjoy! You’ll get all sorts of flavors as you eat. A casual white chocolate chip will suddenly appear or the deliciousness of strawberry & coconut will be in your mouth.
What do you serve for special breakfasts?
Ingredients
- pancake batter
- chopped strawberries
- white chocolate chips
- toasted coconut
- toasted pecans
Instructions
- Heat your griddle to medium hot heat so pancakes cook at even temperature.
- Using your spoon, draw a heart with your batter.
- Fill in the heart with batter.
- Sprinkle chopped strawberries into the batter.
- Add any other fillings you like. I chose white chocolate chips, toasted coconut, toasted pecans.
- Dip your spoon into the batter so it has a little on it. I used that batter to cover the fillings, especially the strawberries so they were completely inside the pancake when I flipped it.
- When there are bubbles on the batter, it is ready to flip. If you can't see the bubbles through the filling, gently lift an edge to see if the underside is golden brown.
- Flip once. Do not use your spatula to flatten the pancake.
- Check the underside once again for golden brown.
- Set aside heart-shaped pancake while you make a round pancake.
- When the round pancake is done, place the heart-shaped pancake in the microwave for 5 seconds.
- Serve the heart-shaped pancake on top of the round one and add your favorite syrup or topping.
Blessings,
Kerry Beck