Pancakes de Lauren

I am super impressed with this guy Jim's website dedicated to his creation of pancakes. I decided that I should try it out for myself. I bought the squirt bottles he uses and made a valiant first attempt.

In my mind I wanted some pink heart shaped cakes with chocolate chip polka dots. This was not the end result...
First I used some Blueberry pomegranate juice to color the batter pink. Or at least purple. But it turned out gray. How did that happen? Well, maybe next time I will use some food coloring. The juice did make the pancakes taste super yummy, though!


Next I started my heart pancake. Apparently leaving the lid on the squirt bottle while i smacked the end to get the batter down in the nozzle was a bad idea. Too much pressure made the batter squirt out continuously. I didn't have any control over the batter flow!!! So it ended up a little crazy!

So I filled it all in and let it bake. Then after I flipped it, I had the idea to make a black and white cookie kinda heart. So I put chocolate chips on half of the heart. YUM! It looked kinda... not beautiful...

Also I made a swirl.
Then, inspired by my sweet dog, I made a Moe cake. I did the head first, then the body. I used chocolate chips for eyes.




Looks nice, right?
It was an interesting first try. Totally delicious, but not to the artistic level I anticipated.
Well, there is always tomorrow!