Recipes · inspired by Polka Dot Pancake in the manga Kitchen Princess, volume 3
Polka Dot Pancakes
Pancakes with chocolate polka dots cooked right into the surface. A fun trick with a zip-top bag.
- Ready in
- 15 min
- Ingredients
- 4
- Makes
- about 8 pancakes
- Level
- easy
Kitchen Princess is a manga by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi in which every chapter is named after a dish. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of that dish, not the recipe from the book.
This looks like magic but it is just timing: the dots cook a little first, so they keep their shape when the plain batter goes on top.
Make it a learning moment: try other shapes with the bag, like hearts, letters or a smiley face. Remember to write letters backwards, because the side in the pan is the side you will see.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Kids Mix the pancake batter as the package says.
- Kids Move about a quarter of the batter into a zip-top bag, add the cocoa, seal it and squish until it is brown all over.
- Grown-up Heat a buttered pan over medium-low heat. Snip a tiny corner off the bag and pipe little dots into the pan.
- Grown-up Cook the dots for 30 seconds, then pour plain batter over them.
- Grown-up When bubbles pop on top, flip. The dots are on the bottom side, so serve them dotty side up.
