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Pancake day.

Do you have pancakes for breakfast? For lunch? for dinner? as a snack? as desert? How do you enjoy your pancakes on pancake day?  Perhaps you just have a day full of pancakes!

Personally I am not a fan of what you would class 'traditional' pancakes, I simply do not like batter.  Instead I make my pancakes, for me to eat, from two ingredients egg and banana.  Simply mash them together and fry, if you wanted to you could add in a scoop of protein powder.  I prefer them for breakfast and they taste great as they are or with strawberries.

Little man is celebrating his first pancake day and to keep it interesting for him I have used some animal cutters and made animal shapes for him, I have taken inspiration from pinterest and from a Nursery in Chiswick who make food fun for babies and toddler.    He seemed to enjoy them as his hands became a blue in the camera as he ate them far too quickly!

animal pancakes

The girls however could not make up their mind what they wanted on their pancakes.  We decided to have some fun and use Num Noms to help us decide on flavours.  

My youngest fancied Marshmallow and chocolate sprinkles, but I had neither so instead she went for banana, powdered sugar and honey.  My eldest however got rather creative with her pancake and went for blueberries, maple syrup and chocolate

Num Nom pancake

I love by that using their Num Noms we could come up with different flavour combinations and help settle that argument of what to have on your pancake!  The great thing with Num Noms is the girls can add them together and smell what the combination will be like.  Helping them make choices about what foods go together and which do not. 

How are you going to enjoy your pancakes? 

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The girls woke on Christmas eve rather giddy, with the excitement of Father Christmas coming.  I decided upon a treat for them for breakfast and as we had been sent some pancakes and Clarks Maple Syrup this seemed a fitting festive breakfast treat.  Quick and simple to do, my youngest helped me with the pancakes.

Clarks Maple SyrupPancakes for Breakfast

 Whilst the Clarks Maple syrup added a lovely sweet taste to the pancakes I wanted to make them festive for the girls.  I used our snowman cookie cutter to cut out snowman shapes, then added the Clarks maple syrup on top.  This meant the chocolate drops for eyes and buttons would stick to the pancake and stay in place.

snowman pancakepancakes

 The girls thoroughly enjoyed their festive breakfast, which meant they had full tummies ready for a fun day ahead.

Eating breakfast

The girls and I spent the day playing and my eldest kept asking if it was time to make the reindeer food ready for Father Christmas.  After we had taken our dog for a walk, we came home to make our reindeer food.  

adding glitterReindeer dust

The girls took some oats and rice and put them into a bowl.  They then added glitter, so the twinkle of the glitter in the moon light would guide the reindeer's to our house.  Well Father Christmas needs to spot our house from the sky.

mixing the reindeer dust

The girls gave the mixture a good mix before we went outside to sprinkle our Reindeer food.  It was raining and very windy so we came back in covered in glitter [my car is still rather sparkly] but the girls went to sleep happy and dreaming of the presents Father Christmas might bring them

Next morning when they awoke the girls were incredibly surprised and very excited.  Father Christmas had been!

spot the dog PJopening presents

 The girls were so excited and very happy.   It was so lovely to watch the magic of Christmas unfold.

happy

The girls were even more surprised when they found out that Father Christmas had left them presents at Grandma and Grandad house!

shh sleepingsay cheese

Grandma had cooked a lovely Christmas dinner and the girls both wore their Christmas hats with pride!

Christmas hatChristmas dinner

 After dinner it was time to unwind and relax.  The girls played and had lots of fun.  Oh and ate lots of chocolate.

lots of chocolate

After a fun filled Christmas it was time to settle down, and dream wonderful dreams.

star light

This day I love dreaming......


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It is my youngest daughters first pancake day and one which my eldest has seen lots about pancakes and has asked me all day if she can flip them.  Not wanting to disappoint I made some special pancakes with her so we could flip pancakes together and have a pancake race.

We started by drawing around one of her toy saucepan lids on some felt:

pancake shapesdrawing circles

Whilst my Mum and the girls drew the pancakes and cut them out, I was cutting up small rectangle pieces of pink felt to represent ham, some purple and red splat shapes to represent jam, some yellow strips to represent lemon, and some yellow dots for honey.  I had silver glitter for sugar and some shredded yellow tissue paper to represent cheese.  By which point I had run out of other things to put on pancakes other than chocolate, but had no appropriate coloured felt for this.

helping

My daughter then put each pancake in her frying pan went to her play cooker and cooked them, flipping the pancakes as she walked back over to the table.  

cooking pancakes

The really fun part came next as we decorated each of our pancakes.  It was great to hear my daughter using her imagination 'I need more ham for this pancake please Mummy' or 'Lets put more sugar on this pancake Grandma'.  

gluesticking


shaking glitteradd jam


stick ham

When we had finished decorating the pancakes, my daughter wanted to see how high we could flip them.

flip pancake

The downside of flipping a pancake with glitter on is that glitter goes everywhere including on the dog

dog glitter

I really love that these pancakes can now be used as play food in her pretend kitchen and she can continue to play with them.

felt pancakes

For the girls dinner I made them pancakes, well how could I not.  I decided to make rainbow shape pancakes.  I made a simple batter mixture, 110g plain flour, 2 eggs, 200ml milk, 75ml water, 50g butter and pinch salt, mixed together.  I then separated into 7 separate bowls and added food colouring.  I added enough colouring until I got the colour I wanted.  I thought about crushing strawberries for the red, blueberries for the blue and other fruits for the other colours unfortunately I did not get chance to do it this way but may do next year.
coloured batter

I made sure the pan was nice and hot and then placed into the pan a metal cookie cutter shape.  

stars in pan

I spooned batter into each of the shapes and then quickly and carefully removed the cutter.  [I had plastic shape cutters but figured they would melt in a hot pan, and I had to carefully remove the meta shape cutter as they got hot quick!]  If you leave the cutters in the pan too long the batter sticks to the sides and becomes really hard to get the pancake out in one piece.

pancake cooking

I did this for each of the different colours until I had done them all.  I then plated up my rainbow stars for each of the girls

colour star pancake

The girls really loved the shaped pancakes and the different colours, I could have stacked them but I think it would have looked to big to eat for my girls.  My eldest daughter loved talking about the different colours and offered a pink star to her sister.

This day I love a day of pancakes and glitter.

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My name is Leyla, also known as Mum to my 3 humans and dog Mum to J. I have a passion for the outdoors and love to run. I can often be found off road exploring the trails and fells and covering distances all the way up to 50 miles. As a family we love travelling and discovering new adventures, as I try and run around the world!

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