Dutch Baby Pancake

This past week it was my Mom's birthday. Typically, we go out for brunch, but this year we decided to stay home and I made her a massive meal. We usually enjoy making an Apple Pancake (will post and link recipe in a few weeks), but it's quite a bit of work, so my mom found a recipe (Style at Home) for a Dutch baby pancake, which looks quite similar to our apple pancake and a lot faster to make.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of milk

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 tbsp sugar

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup of flour

2 tbsp butter

3 tbsp icing sugar

1/3 cup of jam (I used apricot-raspberry)-optional

Steps:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. 

2. In a blender, mix the milk, eggs, vanilla, sugar and salt, until smooth. Add the flour, and then mix for another minute until it is a uniform mixture. 

3. Heat the butter in a pie plate (10 inch) in the oven for 5 minutes. Add the batter and bake for 20 minutes, until golden brown and puffed. 

4. Dust with icing sugar and serve with the jam. It will quickly deflate once you pull it out of the oven, so serve quickly!

The pancake can also be served with lemon and icing sugar instead of the jam. 

The rest of Mom's breakfast. Happy Birthday Mom!

-A