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Giant Baked Berry Pancake of Awesomeness!

Posted on December 16, 2013 16 Comments

Giant Baked Berry Pancakes of Awesomeness!

Over the past few months I have been trying to perfect my baked pancake recipe. I wanted it to be thick and fluffy, and cooked all the way through without becoming rubbery.

On the weekend three things combined to create the best baked pancake ever!

1)I was flipping through a cook book at Kmart (which I bought as a Christmas gift) and noticed a pancake recipe that had beaten eggs whites in it. Aha!

2) Daddy took the big boy to the berry farm and they bought back so many berries! Raspberries, loganberries and bramble berries, all begging to be combined with our homegrown strawberries in a giant baked pancake.

3)We had guest for dinner on Sunday and I needed an easy but impressive dessert.

So right before we sat down to a family dinner with the greatest of Aunts on Sunday I attempted to make a giant berry baked pancake… with beaten egg whites as the secret ingredient to fluffiness.

In initially I thought whipping up the egg whites would be a pain in the bum, but I got Noah to hold the beaters while I mixed up the rest of the ingredients and it was actually super quick and easy. The pancake cooked in the oven while we ate dinner and as I sprinkled it with icing sugar, ready to serve, I realised I had just made the giant baked berry pancake of awesomeness!

So good… so quick… so easy!

Giant Baked Berry Pancakes of Awesomeness!

To prove how it awesome it was I made another one today and fed it to my friend for lunch (yes… we ate pancake for lunch, what of it??). It was still awesome when the kids came home from school this afternoon and scoffed the leftovers.

You guys really, really, need to make this!

Giant Baked Berry Pancakes of Awesomeness!

Giant Baked Berry Pancake!

Yield: 8
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp (approx 30gms) butter
  • 4 eggs (separated)
  • 1/3 sugar
  • 1 cup self raising flour (or 1 cup of plain flour and 2 tsp baking powder)
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1- 1.5 cups Berries or fruit of choice
  • Icing sugar for dusting

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees C (approx 400 degrees F).
  2. Find a large baking dish or high sided ovenproof pan. Pop the butter into the dish (you don't have to be accurate with the amount of butter) and put it in the oven till it has melted.
  3. While the butter melts separate the eggs and beat the eggs whites till they form soft peaks.
  4. In another bowl combine the egg yolks and sugar and beat well, then add the flour and milk and mix till you have got most of the lumps out!
  5. Gently fold the egg whites into the batter, it doesn't matter if it is not mixed in completely, in fact that is better as you don't want to knock the air out of it.
  6. Swirl the butter around until the bottom and sides of the dish are well coated, then pour in the pancake mixture. Add berries (or other fruit) into the batter as evenly spaced as you can.
  7. Bake for 25 minutes or until the top is a lovely golden brown. Dust with icing sugar and serve warm!
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 220Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 103mgSodium: 262mgCarbohydrates: 48gFiber: 3gSugar: 20gProtein: 8g
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We served ours with extra berries and some of that delish lemon yoghurt, but it would also be excellent with ice-cream!

Giant Baked Berry Pancakes of Awesomeness!

This is the perfect dessert for when you have guests as it cooked while we ate and was ready to serve just as we were ready for dessrt, and it looked impressive, even though it was dead easy! This is now my go to dessert recipe for when we have visitors!

What’s your ‘go to’ recipe for dessert when you have guests?

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Read the comments or scroll down to add your own:

  1. Bek {Just For Daisy} says

    Okay! I need this right now!!! Drooling! :)

    Reply
  2. Christie - Childhood 101 says

    Oooooh, that looks so good!

    Reply
  3. JDaniel4's Mom says

    Yum! This looks awesome!

    Reply
  4. Michelle says

    Oh, wow, that does look good! I think it would make for a wonderful special birthday breakfast or brunch!

    Reply
    • katepickle says

      I have stored the idea away for birthday breakfasts… maybe with choc chips and sprinkles instead of fruit!?!?

      Reply
      • Michelle says

        Oooo, sprinkles – a confetti pancake! Yes, please! :)

        Reply
  5. SparklePetal says

    Kate, that does indeed look *awesome*!! It’s the wrong time of year for berries in the UK, but I will be pinning for June :) Would you mind sharing please what diameter your oven dish is? I’m thinking the awesomeness might be compromised if the batter spread too thin in a wider dish, or was too thick in a smaller dish. Thank you!

    Reply
    • katepickle says

      I used a 28 cms (11 inch) cast iron casserole dish, but I think it would be fine to be a little thinner or thicker so you have some room to move. And you could easily halve the recipe if you don’t have as many hungry people as we do!

      I also think it would be fabulous with apple or rhubarb with some cinnamon sugar sprinkled on the top!

      Reply
  6. Melissa says

    That looks Yum!

    Reply
  7. Karen says

    Oh yum! I have made a apple one from another blog, but it takes forever to cook the middle bit. Now I know what to do. Thanks Kate. My fry pan is broken, so I will be trying this today!! Love, love, love your blog!

    Reply
  8. Bev says

    That looks really good! And you can mix in different fruits and as mentioned above even chocolate chips and some syrup would be good too. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  9. Meredith @ Homegrown Friends says

    Kate, I just showed this picture to my husband who immediately requested I make this :-)

    Reply
  10. Naamah says

    This came at the perfect time. I was looking for a special birthday breakfast idea for my 4yo. We had her bday today with the special pancake breakfast and it has been deemed worthy of Christmas morning! Thanks for perfecting it!!!

    Reply
  11. Rockabye Butterfly says

    Made this and it’s SOOOO GOOOOD!!!! Will be making this for our Christmas morning breakfast because it’s that easy!

    Reply
  12. Erica @What Do We Do All Day? says

    Kate, This so reminds me of Pannukakku, which my mother used to make when I was a kid, but she never put berries in it. What a yummy, yummy idea!

    Reply
  13. Jennifer says

    Do you think frozen berries would work?

    Reply

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