During the holidays, breakfast is slow, relaxing, special, and enjoyable. You allow yourself that time, as well as those calories, that you usually don’t have during the rest of the year, taken up by family commitments. So, what should you prepare on Christmas morning or the days that follow? Pancakes, an American recipe that is now part of Italian breakfast! Themed pancakes, of course. Children go crazy for them, are you ready?
The recipe for Christmas pancakes
Ingredients
¾ oz butter
4 ½ oz flour 00
½ oz sugar
2 eggs
6 oz milk
1 tablespoon baking powder
Method
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Separate the white and the red of the egg, transfer the yolks into a bowl and beat them with a whisk. Then add the cooled butter and milk. Continue stirring the mixture. Then add yeast and sifted flour. Separately whip the egg whites with the sugar and then incorporate them into the rest of the mixture being careful not to dismantle it. Heat a pancake pan, grease it with a little butter and then pour a ladle of the pancake mixture. Let it cook on one side and then turn the pancake and continue on the other.
How to decorate Christmas pancakes
Santa Claus is always a children’s favorite and creating him using pancakes is super easy. Some advice? Prepare the ingredients and let the little ones transform simple pancakes into Santa Claus, as well as Rudolph the reindeer, snowmen, and angels. You will need freshly cut fruit, such as strawberry slices to make Santa Claus' hat, or banana and blueberries to make Rudolph's eyes, some whipped cream and, if you feel like the savory version of pancakes, bacon and cherry tomatoes.