Breakfast for dinner, anyone? Or just looking for that perfect Sunday morning pancake recipe to serve to weekend guests or your sweetheart? However you choose to enjoy them, you can't go wrong with these delicious, hearty yet fluffy apple-filled treats.
As a tinge of chill begins to lend a crispness to the fall air, the leaves change colors in places where leaves change color (jealous!), apple-picking and cider house visits segue into hayrides and autumn bonfires, and your belly is ready to move past the salads and grill-outs of summer to the warm comforting foods of fall and winter... Go pick those apples people! Or just pick them up at the store, that's what we did. Apple orchards are probably not in abundance in LA.
Remember this cool contraption from the sauerkraut recipe? Gotta love it.
This is a pretty basic pancake recipe, but with some distinctly German touches - namely, the sour cream sauce and apple combo. It was so good that Tara has decided this sauce may well replace syrup in her life for all pancakes from now on. Due to dairy restrictions, she is thinking maybe a plain non-dairy yogurt might be a good replacement with coconut oil instead of butter?
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| Sour Cream Topping |
We decided to cut the sour cream sauce in half, which turned out to be the perfect pancake to sauce ratio. Unless you want to double the pancake recipe for a crowd or use the sauce for other creative purposes, we suggest you do the same. Also, with all the ingredients out in front of us, trying to decide how the honey would blend in to a cold sauce, Jen suggested switching to maple syrup (perfect for pancakes, right?) and it was brilliant! It blended completely and added a wonderful hint of maple flavor. Make sure to get the real stuff though! No Aunt Jemima, you know what we're saying? Well, you could try it but in that case we're not making any promises....
We attempted to bring the egg and milk up to room temp as much as possible so the melted butter didn't clump up. Oh, and check out the bit about the "rotary beater"?! Does anyone else remember those? It's little moments like this that remind us that these recipes were originally published in 1960. Pretty cool.
We used a whisk. Otherwise we mixed and griddled as directed, with Tara's master flipper skills evading that ultimate pancake tragedy of which we're sure we are all familiar.
Soooo, we all loved them. They were simple to make and satisfying, sweet but not too sweet. We suggest you try them. Like, now.
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