Whole Wheat German Pancake
By: Jennifer Manriquez
Published: Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 9:36am

Ingredients




4 eggs
1/2 cup whole milk
1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1/2 lemon
1/4 cup powdered sugar

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to 425 degrees. 2 Place eggs, milk, flour, vanilla, and salt into a blender. Whirl it around until it's well-mixed, about 1 minute. 3 Melt butter in a 9-10" cast iron skillet over medium-low heat. 4 Pour pancake mix into skillet and pop it into the oven. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until the edges are golden brown and pulling away from the sides. 5 Remove from oven and use a large circular spatula to scoop it from the skillet onto a plate. 6 Sift powdered sugar over the top. 7 Squeeze the juice from half a lemon all over the pancake. 8 Cut in half to make 2 yummy servings, or just be romantic and share off the same plate.

About


There's a 24-hour dive here in my town that serves the greatest breakfast food known to man... German Pancakes. The waitress brings your pancake out, open-faced on a plate, with about a cup of powdered sugar heaped on top. Then, she dresses it tableside by squeezing a full lemon's worth of juice over it, folding it up, and cutting a criss-cross pattern over the top, from whence - if you're lucky - a lovely ribbon of steam will escape. Then she plops it down in front of you, and goes outside for a cigarette.
I love these German Pancakes so much that, even during my vegan days, I would sneak over to the dive about twice a year to enjoy one.
So, I have attempted here to "healthify" the German Pancake. I reduced the sugar, and replaced the all-purpose flour with whole wheat pastry flour. The verdict?? YUM! The texture is slightly more bready than a traditional German Pancake, but it still tastes wonderful. It's rich and lemony, with a hint of sweetness.
You will love it!

Comments:
lissa003

This recipe turned out great I needed a new breakfast recipe! I used olive oil instead of butter because I have cut butter out of my diet and it worked fine!  Instead of powdered sugar on top I just put fresh berries!