Rum and Cranberry Pancake

  I've bought Tefal Snack Collection 6 months ago. Due to my busy schedule I don't have much time to use it. Recently my friend sent me a recipe from Halfbaked harvest. Pancakes are American's all time favorite breakfast. The first time I followed that recipe, it was a bit rubbery and flat as I mix the ingredients too smoothly. I've looked up in the internet and found some tips to make your pancakes more fluffy.

  With the Tefal Snack Collection, it comes with 3 moulds in the package, a waffle mould, a pancake mould and also a panini mould. I used to make pancake using a skillet with oil. It is not easy to achieve the fluffy texture that i would like my pancake to be. With this pancake maker it is easier to have the fluffy centre and it seems to be a bit more healthy because less oil used to coat the surface of the mould. Lol.

Rum and Cranberry Pancakes with Butter Rum Syrup
Prep time: 15 min
Cooking time: 5 min
Serving size: 10 pieces
Difficulty Level: Easy

Ingredients
Pancake
2 cups self-rising flour
2 eggs
2 tablespoons castor sugar
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup dried cranberries/raisins
1 tablespoon rum (you can opt to use coconut rum)
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1 cup of chocolate chips (optional)
1 tablespoon olive oil

Rum Butter Sauce
4 tablespoons salted butter
1 tablespoon rum (or coconut rum)
2 tablespoons cranberries/raisins
1/3 cup pure maple syrup

1. Separate the egg whites and the egg yolks.
2. Mix all the ingredients of the pancake into a mixing bowl except for chocolate chips and also the egg yolks.

The dry ingredients in the mixing bowl

Pouring the tablespoon of rum into the mixing bowl

3. Mix the ingredients in the mixing bowl. Stop mixing when there are small lumps formed.

4. Beat the egg whites until stiff peak forms. 

Egg white beat until stiff peak forms

5. Mix the egg white with the other ingredients of the pancake by slowly folding the pancake batter over the egg white. Stop mixing when there are residual small lumps of egg white visible on the surface of the batter.

6. Heat up the Tefal Snack Collection with the pancake mould. 

7. When both the red and green lights lit up, pour some batter onto the mould using a ladle. 

Pouring some batter unto the mould

8. Sprinkle some chocolate chips on top of the batter that is poured into the mould. 

Sprinkle some choclate chips on top

9. Close the pancake maker and wait until both the red and green lights lit up again. 

10. Heat up a skillet. Pour all the rum sauce ingredients into the skillet. Cook until the sauce starts to bubble and the cranberries become plump.

Pouring the rum into the sauce

Cook until the cranberries are plump and the sauce starts to bubbles

11. Drizzle the sauce and cranberries on top of the pancakes. You can also sprinkle some powdered sugar on top. 

Alternative:

You can also make pancake the traditional way. First, heat up the skillet. Spray the surface with vegetable oil. Pour a ladle full of pancake batter. When it is golden brown, turn the pancake to the other side and cook until it also turns golden brown. 

Below is the finished product. 

  Original recipe from here. We've modified some parts of the recipe to suit our taste. Kev prefers something more savoury but I think its not too bad as I have a sweet tooth.

Ratings:
Kev ★★☆☆☆
Bunny C ★★★☆☆