Raspberry and White Chocolate Pancakes

The weekend is coming up! Yay! One of my favourite things to do on the weekend is make a big, yummy breakfast and relax in my pjs until noon. I love breakfast foods; in fact, I am big on all day breakfast and love having breakfast items for dinner.

 

One thing to know about me, when I bake or cook, I am known for putting “everything but the kitchen sink in” as my Dad always says. I like to experiment and I hate to let food go to waste, I like to use up what I have in the house. Making Peanut Butter cookies? A handful of chocolate chips leftover in the cupboard? In they go! Almonds? In they go too! Dried up old coconut? Into the cookies! Making chili?? Need to use up the last of the cayenne pepper? You can bet my chili is going to burn going down (and out!). Some experiments are a bit questionable, others are keepers… Which leads me to: Need an idea to kick your breakfast in the arse?

A few weeks back I made pancakes for dinner. I used a mix, super easy kind, add water and voila! Now, to jazz them up a bit... (You can do this with any kind of pancake mix or recipe for pancakes from scratch. Follow box/recipe directions.) I always add strawberries, frozen or fresh, whatever I have on hand. I have added milk chocolate chips in the past (no dark chocolate for this girl, as it is a first class ticket to migraine city!) I checked the cupboard, hmm… white chocolate chips… that would be good. Checked the freezer, I had frozen strawberries, AND frozen raspberries for fruit smoothies. I am thinking raspberries and white chocolate. In go a handful of raspberries to the mix! (I found using the little pieces of raspberries worked better instead of a full raspberry.)

Wait to add the chocolate!

Add chocolate chips after the batter is poured into the pan.

I suggest pouring the a thin layer of pancake batter into the frying pan, drop in a few chocolate chips and add another thin layer of batter on top, this prevents the chocolate from burning in the frying pan. You have to work quickly if you have a hot pan. Try to flip as soon as the bubbles in the batter cover the surface, as you don’t want the bottom with the fruit to burn either.




Add more batter to cover chocolate to prevent burning.  I did one in raspberry and milk chocolate

Once the pancakes are completed, drown in syrup, and enjoy! Mmm… maybe a little bit of whipped cream on top! (Seriously, I love sugar; I am like Will Ferrell in Elf!) There you have it, raspberry and white chocolate pancakes! A successful mix!