The easiest recipe for Pancake Tuesday. Delicious crepe style pancakes made with just three simple ingredients.
It’s Pancake Tuesday, aka Shrove Tuesday, this week and if you’re looking for the easiest ever pancake recipe to whip up with the kids then keep reading!
There are a million pancake recipes out there but for Pancake Tuesday I like to make a super simple crepe style pancake made with just three basic ingredients that you probably already have at home.
For this recipe all you’ll need is:
- plain flour
- milk
- eggs
You can’t get much more simple than that! You’ll also need some butter or oil to grease the pan, although just a very small amount.
And you don’t need any fancy equipment either. Just a large bowl and a hand whisk. This is where you can get the kids involved. Get them to mix the batter until it is completely smooth with no lumps.
Cooking the pancake is just as easy. You just need to very lightly coat a frying pan with some butter or oil and then add a ladle of the batter to the pan. Swirl it around really quickly so that the batter coats the entire surface of the pan and then cook for about a minute on either side.
If you’re feeling confident then have a go at flipping the pancakes! Just be careful as the pan will be very hot.
I like a simple topping of sugar and lemon juice on my pancakes but feel free to get creative with chopped fruit, yogurt, nutella or jam.
You can also make savoury pancakes. Treat it like a wrap for a delicious dinner!
If you try my Easy Pancake recipe please do leave me a comment and a star rating below. You can also share your pictures with me on on Instagram. I always love to see your creations!
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Easy Pancake Recipe for Pancake Tuesday
Prep Time: 3 mins- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 23 minutes
Yield: 5 1x
Category: Desserts
Cuisine: Pancakes
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The easiest recipe for Pancake Tuesday. Delicious crepe style pancakes made with just three simple ingredients.
Ingredients
- 180g plain flour
- 450ml milk
- 3 eggs
- butter or oil for frying
Instructions
- Add the flour, milk and eggs to a large bowl and whisk with a hand whisk until the batter is smooth.
- Heat a very small amount of butter or oil in a frying pan over a medium heat.
- Use a ladle to transfer just under a whole ladle full of the batter into the frying pan. Immediately swirl the pan around until the batter covers the whole surface.
- Cook for about a minute then flip and cook for another minute on the other side.
- Repeat with the remaining batter. You should be able to make at least 10 pancakes from this recipe.
Mariam says
Thanks I now know how to make pancakes thanks so much
elizabeth says
It is good and nice
★★★★★
Silvana says
My kids are 4 and 5 years old, so needed a recipe they could do and this one worked a treat!! Totally recommend, this was my first time doing pancakes and all of them turned out well!
★★★★★
Chris S says
My daughter helped me make these for breakfast this weekend and we served them with banana and peanut butter, strawberry,raspberries and yoghurt. It felt like a really lovely treaty breakfast but was ridiculously easy to make and made me realise that pancake making doesn’t have to be hard work!
★★★★★
Rebecca says
Beautiful photography! My kids love pancakes as much as they love sweets so i’ll give this a go, it’ll be good for the easter break with easter egg shaped ones.
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Janis says
I’m in the US so I had to look how to convert 180g of flour to cups. It was still watery, so I kept adding until the batter resembled a thicker pancake batter. They turned out more like thick crapes – which we were all just fine with! We layered them and smothered almond butter between layers and topped with strawberries, bananas, and drizzled with honey. Delicious breakfast.
★★★★
Ciara Attwell says
Hi Janis, this type of pancake batter is supposed to be a lot thiner than the US thick style pancakes that you might be used to. Glad you still enjoyed them though! x