BLOG-Mas DAY 24!
I feel like breakfast at Christmas time should be a little special and these two recipes are bound to be. The first recipe is Cinnamon pancakes with Blackberry syrup and paired with a spicy hot cocoa.
WHAT YOU NEED
Pancakes
1) 1 1/3 cups (135g)Pancake mix
2) 1 tbsp cinnamon
3) 1 cup Blackberries – Any type of berries will do. I chose blackberries because they were the cheapest st the supermarket.
4) 1/2 cup (48g) White sugar
Ingredients
WHAT TO DO
Pancakes
1) Add cinnamon to pancake mix and stir in.
Add cinnamon
Mix in cinnamon
2) Add water and mix well.
Batter
3) Heat skillet and make pancakes to desired size.
Cook pancakes
Stack
Syrup
4) Place blackberries, sugar and teabag into a skillet or saucepan.
Ingredients in skillet
5) Add water and bring to a boil.
Boil
6) Adjust to a simmer until syrupy in consistency
Syrup
7) Pour over pancakes.
Pancakes with syrup
Spicy hot cocoa
WHAT YOU NEED
(Makes one 16 oz(475mL) cup )
1) 1/4 cup(56g) Chocolate morsels /chips
2) Cocoa powder (unsweetened )
3) 1 tbsp of White sugar
4) pinch of Salt
5)2 cups (16floz )of milk
6) 1/4 tsp Cayenne pepper
Cocoa ingredients
WHAT TO DO
1) Place all the dry ingredients including the chocolate morsels into a saucepan and mix until chocolate has melted.
Ingredients in saucepan
2) Add milk and let simmer
Cocoa in pan
3) Pour into cup and top with marshmallows and pepper
Finished cocoa
Your breakfast is ready to serve!
Finished breakfast
This is a delicious cute breakfast. The cinnamon adds a festive feel to the pancakes and the fruit based syrup gives it a more complex grown up flavour.
The hot cocoa is rich and decedent and the pepper adds a most unexpected dimension. It gives a slow smokey burn that somehow goes beautifully with the chocolate (because what doesn’t go beautifully with chocolate? )
Definitely try this one out and have an awesome day !