If you’ve always wanted to cook up a batch of thick and fluffy style American Pancakes at the weekend but felt a little… intimidated, fear not! Here is my tried and tested recipe. With a few tips and trick so they work every time.

American Pancake Ingredients Notes

• Self-raising flour – You might be used to using plain flour for British pancakes, but self-raising has a raising agent and makes lighter bakes, so this helps with the fluffy consistency of American-style
• Baking powder – This also helps to stop the pancakes being flat. Make sure yours is in date or it won’t have the same effect!
• Milk – You can use whichever milk you prefer for this recipe. Cow’s milk or dairy-free all work fine
• Egg – I always use medium, free-range eggs in my recipes, so bear this in mind when it comes to quantities
• Caster sugar – We’re only using 50g/2oz in this recipe, so considering this batch makes 12 pancakes, it’s not too sugar-heavy
• Other ingredients – You’ll also need a small amount of salt and sunflower oil to cook (roughly 1tsp per 2 pancakes)

How to make American Pancakes

1. Put the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl and stir until combined.

2. In a jug, measure the milk and whisk in the egg.

3. Add about two-thirds of the milk mixture to the dry ingredients and whisk until smooth. Add the rest of the milk mixture. Leave to sit, covered as per the recipe below.

4. Heat the oil in the pan, dollop a serving spoon of batter into the pan to make each pancake (as many as your pan can make at a time). Keep the cooked ones warm on a heat in the oven.

Important Top PANCAKE Tips!

⭐️ Leave the batter to rest before frying – approximately 10 minutes

⭐️ Use 2 non-stick frying pans at once if you can to reduce the cooking time

⭐️ Don’t flip your pancakes over until bubbles form and come through to the uncooked side, then cook the other side until set and lightly golden (this side will be much quicker)

⭐️ Cook as many pancakes as you can at a time and then keep them on a low heat in the oven as the remainders cook – this allows you to serve them at the same time

⭐️ Accept that they will never be perfectly round! Unless you have the patience to cook one at a time – I do not – just embrace the imperfections!

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.