Baking extravaganza: Fluffy Pancakes

In my family pancakes used to always be the treat when the milk was going bad. Eating pancakes or well, more like crepes are specially good memories from childhood. And nothing beats a good pancake with some whipped cream and jam, nom! But I have modified pancakes so much that I don't think my mom would recognise them anymore. The oven made pancake that is on the list of recipes is a more traditional food. Very Finnish also. But my fluffy pancakes looks more like Hollywood versions, they're so big and fluffy.

I love traditional flavours. Something easy and simple is usually the yummiest. I think sushi is a good example of that. They can be easy and simple, but they can also be considered gourmet. But with my weird diet, it's sometimes hard to get the food to taste like it should. With these pancakes I kind of gave up. They don't taste like mom used to make them, but they taste wonderful. They don't need much sugar and I don't eat them with whipped cream and jam. The best part of them is that because the main ingredient is banana, they taste marvellous the next day and refrigerator cold.

Ingredients:
3 bananas
1 cup of flour
1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of psyllium
sugar
3 eggs
almond milk until the dough is runny
oil for frying

Mash bananas. Many recipes suggest to do this with a fork, but I've found the best, fastest and most efficient way to do this is by hands. And it's fun also! So banana mush, mix with flour and everything dry, then add eggs. Last put something liquid enough to make the dough runny. Then fry on a pan with lots of grease until lovely brown.

Tips: The browner the bananas are, the sweeter the pancakes will be. If you have good, old and wrinkly bananas, you probably don't need sugar at all. Psyllium should be in the liquid five minutes before adding to the rest. If you use normal flour, skip the psyllium, but give the flour time to absorb the moisture. With gluten free flour the dough is ready right when you've put everything together. Almond milk gives the pancakes sweetness but you can use milk or cream or just water. If you want to add flavour to the pancakes, fry them in coconut oil.

You can actually make pancakes out of just bananas and eggs, maybe add some milk too if you have any. I think those are more banana omelettes and not so yummy, but if you wake up hungry one morning and bananas and eggs are the only thing you have, then go for it.

And chocolate makes everything better. Put lots of it! In the dough, chocolate chips, chocolate sauce, just put everything in it. Chocolaaaaaate!