Morning Dumplings

They are a bit of a cross between a Welsh Cake and Pancake. 

I've been making quite thick pancakes for a while now, and I love dumplings. So here are my Pancake Dumplings, I can't think of a good name, Morning Dumplings is about as good as I could think of!

Ingredients:

1x banana 

Self Raising Flour

Hand full of raisins

Half a hand full of dried apricots, sliced and diced 

Soya milk (I used +1 as was cooking for the childern too)

Now, am terrible at just throwing in the ingredients and not paying much mind to how much has gone in. I would say 2-3 cups of flour and add milk till it starts to clump together but is still very sticky. (I will make them again soon and see how much I use!)

I just used a fork to mix it.

Pop some flour on the board or side.

Mix, like you would bread. 

It's very quick or you can get the kids to help! ;) then roll into a log about 2-3 intches wide. 

Pull apart into equal sized potions, and roll into a dumpling and flatten.

Then fry, on a medium to hot pan. In a fair amount of oil. About a mm deep, they will sock it up, so you may need to add more for each batch. Wipe off any oil.

Pile them high to keep warm while you are cooking batches. 

Golden syrup or a light sprinkling of icing sugar!

Thick Vegan Pancakes

One thing I was worried about when we started our journey becoming vegan, was pancakes. It's mostly a Sunday thing for us, lots of fruit, honey, lemon, and bacon. 

Well bacon was out, as was honey, what about eggs and milk. So I thought well I will just leave out the eggs and try some of our other milks. 

They where the best pancakes I've ever made, kids and husband said they where amazing and they where gone in a blink of an eye.

Ingredients:

1 cup of self rasing flour

2 bananas (I normally just use one)

2 apples (I normally use one)

1/4 of sultanas (some times I leave them out sometimes I throw in a bit more, experiment with what you throw in. Things like pineapple may work.)

1-2 cups of milk (I just pour it in till I get the consistency I like) when cooking for the kids I use soya +1, if using coconut milk make sure you put in a banana. Today I used unsweetened almond milk.

Toppings; 

Go nuts....most things work. In place of honey we use golden syrup. Fake bacon sometimes, lemon and sugar, strawberries are always a big hit too.

Mix the flour and milk first, till all lumps gone. I love doing this by hand, but the mini people where really restless so I got the mixer out. 

Peel and grate the apples, cut up the bananas really small. 

Put the liquid in too. 

Mix all together. You can add seeds and crushed nuts too if you want. 

Mix, depending on how you like your pancakes, as to how thick you make your mixture. For thick pancakes think of cake mixture, thin think of gravy. 

The pan is so important, this is my favourite as its large. It's well seasoned through everyday use. For the best pancakes you need to work 'hot and fast' it make take a few goes to get it right, today with my three year old trying to steal all the bananas I had to give in and use some oil. The best way is to get the pan hot and dry, but it's ok to use oil or water. 

This is my set up, so I can work fast. Pile al the pancakes on top of each other, this way they keep warm till you are ready to serve. 

The size of your spoon helps with the size of your pancakes, larger the spoon the bigger the pancake. 

Once flipped I squash down the pancake. 

Yummy.