French🍞 Bread & bakery

French Pancakes

Name: French Pancakes
Total time: 1 h
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: ~1 cup flour; ~1½ tsp baking powder; ~2 tbsp sugar; ~1 tbsp vanilla sugar; ~¼ tsp salt; ~2 egg yolk; ~¾ cups milk; ~2 egg white; ~¼ cups maple syrup

⏱ 60 min

Classic French breakfast pancakes with a light, fluffy texture achieved through folding in whipped egg whites. Serve with maple syrup or jam.

Adapted from a video by Philippe Etchebest

🥞 Les pancakes

Watch on YouTube

Ingredients

flour~1 cupest.
baking powder~1½ tspest.
sugar~2 tbspest.
vanilla sugar~1 tbspest.
salt~¼ tspest.
egg yolk~2est.
milk~¾ cupsest.
egg white~2est.
maple syrupfor topping the pancakes~¼ cupsest.

Steps

▶ Tap a timecode to jump to roughly that moment in the video.

1
Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, and vanilla sugar in a bowl. Make a small well in the centre and add a pinch of salt.
2
Gently fold the dry ingredients together, then add the egg yolk. Gradually incorporate milk while stirring until smooth, avoiding lumps.
3
Whisk the egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form, creating a smooth meringue.
4
Carefully fold the meringue into the batter with quick, gentle movements to preserve the airiness of the egg whites.
5
Let the batter rest at room temperature for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
6
Heat a skillet to medium-high heat (about three-quarters max heat), adjusting temperature to achieve proper browning without burning or undercooking.
7
Pour batter onto the hot skillet and cook until golden brown on one side, then flip and cook the other side until golden.
8
Plate the cooked pancakes and serve topped with maple syrup or jam.

French Pancakes

Ingredients

Steps

More like this