This is where you can really get creative at the breakfast table by chopping up the thicker, American-style pancakes to piece together into any shape you want. We went for a bicycle, of course.

Traditionally served with maple syrup and bacon as a breakfast or brunch food, we decided to bring American pancakes to the dessert table by using black icing to really bring our bicycle pancake design to life. If you fancy doing this too, grab yourself some mini tubes of pre-made icing or fashion your own out of a piping bag and a tub of Nutella. Yum.

Ingredients

135g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp caster sugar
130ml milk
1 large egg
2 tbsp melted butter

Method

1. Start your batter off by sifting the flour, baking powder, salt and caster sugar together in a large mixing bowl. Then in a jug combine the milk, egg and melted butter and whisk together.
2. Pour the liquid mixture into the flour mixture and whisk together with a fork to create a smooth batter.
3. Add a knob of butter to a large frying pan. Once the butter has melted and the pan has reached a medium heat, add one ladle of batter mixture per pancake.
4. Wait until the pancake begins to bubble on top before flipping over and cooking the other side.
5. Repeat until all the batter is used up.
6. To create your bicycle, get yourself a sharp knife (or try using a plastic alternative if the kids are helping) and cut out all of the rectangular and square pieces pictured above. Use an entire pancake for each of the wheels, or cut out two smaller circles if you’d prefer to make a smaller bicycle instead.
7. If you fancy getting really creative, you could even make an entire cycling scene on the plate. Chop up a mango to form a sun, fashion some grass out of green icing and pop a gingerbread man on the saddle as your cyclist.

Recipe adapted from BBC Good Food

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