Sunday, January 22, 2017

Cinnamon Swirl Pancakes

T and I have been out of town all week for family reasons. The kids have been with my mum and we missed them. T leaves today for business and we wanted a special breakfast treat for the family without going out and spending $75.00 on breakfast. I didn't have time to whip up a batch of cinnamon buns, so cinnamon swirl pancakes will just have to do.


Pancakes: Use whatever recipe you normally use for pancakes. They're all the same essentially, but whatever works for you is just fine, including your favourite mix.

Cinnamon Swirl sauce:
4 tbsps butter
1/4 cup hard packed, lump free brown sugar (light or dark, it doesn't really matter)
2 tbsps ground cinnamon

Melt butter in bowl in microwave.
Add in cinnamon and sugar and stir. 
I have a plastic squeezy container I put the mixture into and could nuke when it got too cold to squeeze, but a ziplock bag with a hole at the end works just as well. You do need something though to embed the cinnamon into the pancake.

Glaze:
4 tbsps butter (room temp)
4 tbsps cream cheese (room temp)
3/4 cup icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Using a hand mixer cream together butter and cream cheese.
Add in icing sugar and whip well.
Add in vanilla until well blended.
Take half of the mixture and put it in the microwave until everything melts, maybe 15 seconds.
It should have looked like a light whipped cream mixture before the microwave. It should now resemble white molten lava. Do not burn it or over cook it. 
It's just gross with the cream cheese.
Again, plastic squeezy container or ziplock bag with small hole nipped off the corner. Or just smearing the mixture over the pancakes works too. 
Use the second half as needed.


Using coconut oil put your pancake batter into a hot pan like you would for every other pancake you have ever made.
When the bubbles begin to come up, signalling they're cooked enough to flip add in that cinnamon swirl mixture and flip over.
Cook like a pancake is normally cooked and put on a plate.
Add the glaze, wether by squeeze tube, ziplock or spoon.

Serve hot.
Even the 8 year old boy couldn't do anymore than 3 of these puppies. They're really that sweet.


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