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Valentine’s Day Breakfast Pink Pancakes
Sometimes Love is not perfect. Like these Pink Pancakes. I wanted to make them a Pinterest kind, but they came out crooked, burned somewhere, and falling apart. Exactly like Love. But this is only the outside. The inside is sweet, floral, and light.
Should one choose the inside over the outside or vice versa?
I don’t know, Love has too many faces, and it’s hard to say. I only know that you don’t divide Love; you multiple it.
I never considered myself worthy of Love. Sometimes I couldn’t even understand the unconditional pure love of my family. They loved me because of me or because I was part of them? And what do I have so precious that I don’t see?
Then, I met Matteo. And to my surprise, he liked that pinkish, crooked pink pancakes. Like A LOT.
I don’t know how you learn to Love yourself more. But I know that cooking for yourself is a step. I never cooked for myself. It was too much work (It’s funny for someone who has a food blog). But I have started, slowly. Not every day. But I am getting there.
I am not really into Valentine’s Day because it’s another commercial holiday. Spending money in stuff that you don’t need or even want, like chocolate or roses (this applies only when chocolate is not good).
I prefer to choose February as a month of Love and Kindness because January has been tough and long.
And…I am really into pink. And I like to play with colors. That’s why I will post only rosy food for the whole month of February. Check also my Instagram for more inspiration.
These Pink Pancakes are perfect for Valentine’s day breakfast, but also perfect as breakfast for dinner, which is one of the things I love the most in life. And it could be a super funny unconventional way to celebrate Valentine’s or Galentine’s day: all the food you like to eat for breakfast but for dinner. COUNT ME IN.
Make them for yourself, for someone you love, for a friend, for a sibling, a parent, or grandma.
Another sweet that would be great for Valentine’s day is Cannoli or Peaches Cookies or Mini Pavlovas. Or all the tree of them.
Ingredients:
For 10 pancakes 5 inches round. Serves two people or four it depends how hungry are you.
- 1 cup ap flour (spooned and leveled), 150 gr
- 1 tbsp of baking powder
- 2 cooked beets 100 gr
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil 10 gr
- 2tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tbsp melted butter 30 gr
- one banana 80 gr
- 1 cup whole milk, 210 ml
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Butter for the pan
Filling: whipped ricotta or whipped cream with one tablespoon of sugar ( I like whole milk ricotta from Trader’s Joe and I used half box which is 8 oz/half pound)
Decoration:
- Any fruit you like, I used strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries
- Maple syrup (I used the sweet birch of https://newleaftreesyrups.com)
- Powder sugar
Instructions
- Sift together flour and baking powder and set aside.
- In a food processor, blend very well the beets with oil, maple syrup, and butter. Then add the banana, milk, egg, and vanilla.
- Blend well and finish with salt and the sifted flour and baking powder.
- Keep blending until they come together and let rest 10 mins.
- I use a squeeze condiment bottle (like this one) to get a more precise round pancake.
- Lightly butter a nonstick pan and when warm, gently squeeze the bottle filled with pancake batter, pointing the center of the pan to get. Wait until it bubbles, flip it over and finish cooking.
- While the pancakes chill, whip (I used a hand mixer with beaters) the ricotta with a tbsp of sugar until creamy. If for you is not sweet enough add more sugar.
- Spread ricotta in between each pancake. I used a pastry bag to have a more balanced effect. If you want, you can also slice some fruits and place it in-between layer to enrich the filling.
- Cover the last pancake with fruits and some flowers or mint leaves.
- Finish with powder sugar and maple syrup.
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Baci,
Dani
