Pancakes for breakfast are always fun, but when you want to make someone feel special, this stack of pink pancakes is precisely what you need. Celebrate Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Birthdays, Christmas or just because you want to show some love.
Ingredients
2 ½ cups (375g) plain flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
2 tablespoons caster sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
5 eggs
1 ¾ cups (420ml) milk
100g unsalted butter, melted
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Pink food colouring
Strawberries, raspberries, maple syrup and ice-cream, to serve
Method
In a large bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt together. In a large jug whisk eggs, milk, butter and vanilla
Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and whisk in milk mixture to make a smooth batter
Heat a large, lightly greased non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Working in batches, spoon ¼ cup of batter into the pan. Cook pancake for 1-2 minutes, until bubbles break on the surface and the underside is golden brown. Flip over and cook for 1 minute. Repeat to make 3 pancakes
Tint batter a pale shade of pink. Cook another 3 pancakes. Tint batter a darker shade of pink, cook another 3 pancakes. Repeat until you have 5 colours of pancakes in total
To serve, stack the pancakes from darkest on the bottom to lightest on the top. Serve the pancakes with berries, syrup and ice-cream
Tips & Hints
As more food colour is added, the batter will spread more and create flatter, wider pancakes. We suggest adding an extra couple of tablespoons of flour and 1 tsp of baking powder to the batter after the first batch of food colour is added
Keep pancakes warm in a low oven covered in foil while making the remaining pancakes