i heart cake

When it comes to breakfast type foods, i prefer to let someone else do the cooking. First of all i’m never up early enough on the weekend and secondly it’s more fun going out for breakfast than to make it myself. On this lovely Sunday morning however my lovely hubby offered to recreate Bills famous Ricotta hotcakes as i wasn’t up for venturing out. Needless to say i said yes and my oh my were they good! So light and fluffy with a small hint of ricotta through the pancakes. This meant that we were able to top them with anything we wanted without meshing up the flavours too much so we decided to go for a berry compote (with maple syrup on the side).

Ricotta Hotcakes with Berry Compote

Bills Ricotta Pancakes

(serves 2-3)

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cups ricotta
• ¾ cup milk
• 4 eggs, separated
• 1 cup plain all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 50g butter

Method

1. Place ricotta, milk and egg yolks in a bowl and mix to combine.
2. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the ricotta mixture and mix until incorporated.
3. Place egg whites in a dry clean bowl and whip until stiff peaks form.
4. Fold egg whites into the batter using a wide metal spoon. Do this in two batches.
5. Over a low to medium heat, lightly grease a large non-stick frypan with a small portion of butter.
6. Drop a ladleful of batter into the pan and cook for two minutes or until the edges have turned golden brown.
7. Flip the hotcakes over and fry until it is cooked through.
8. Transfer to a plate. Top with anything you like!

So hot there's steam oozing from it!

Tags: Pancakes, Ricotta

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