With nowhere to be this morning, Miss G and I declared it a pancake day. Her request? Making them heart-shaped. {Why not, right?} We whipped up a batch of our usual wholewheat flax and oat pancake batter and attempted to make it pink with the addition of beet juice. It didn’t work the way I was hoping it would {or at all really}, but oh well! We put our batter into the same squeeze bottle we use when we make spiderweb pancakes, and then simply created heart-shaped outlines and filled them in.
Our recipe makes a ridiculous amount of pancakes, but that’s just fine with us because they freeze well and make for quick and easy toaster pancakes in the following weeks.
The other request Miss G had was to create a special pancake just for Papa so he could enjoy it when he got home from work. I filled up the squeeze bottle and let her {carefully} create her masterpiece.
Here’s the finished product in all its glory. It was fittingly declared a ‘brain pancake’ and it was huge – that’s a dinner plate!
With Papa’s after school snack prepared, we decided that strawberries would be a nice addition to our breakfast, so heart-shaped ones it was!
In the meantime, Gracen prepared the table by setting out placemats, cutlery, and a glass of water for each of us. {Setting the table is her new thing and I don’t mind one bit.}
Finally, it was breakfast time! Mmmm… heart pancakes!