Tuesday 1 March 2016

Squeezy bottle vegan pancakes - fun shapes and a banana sourdough variation

Sylvia has turned against our formerly favourite banana oat pancakes in favour of drawing pancake shapes with squeezy bottles. It suits me not to have eggs in them as we don't have eggs in the house all the time.  So I have adapted Isa's Vegan Brunch pancake recipe.  I used this recipe a few years ago but have found it needed further tweaking.  Now we are making them quite often and so I can claim they work.

One important change to making these pancakes has been to blend the mixture really well.  Finding lumps of flour clogging up the nozzle of the squeezy bottle is not great when drawing.  I tried putting in oats on the weekend they worked as long as they were well blended.

Over Christmas we had fun doing festive pancakes in green and red using food colouring.  Above is a Christmas tree, present, wreath and stocking.

We had my niece over for a sleepover during the holidays and she loved doing some drawing.  Above is the car.

I even made a new avatar for my blog with a green gourmet giraffe.  However my enthusiasm for food colouring has been waning.  We have tried some beetroot powder which I like and even just a little turmeric. 

Above are a heart, stocking, angel, swirl, giraffe, birthday cake, pig, another angel and a house.

And most recently there has been a spate of minion love in our house.  (More on that later.)  So I have had a go at a minion pancake which wasn't brilliant but hopefully the picture will show the process of drawing the shapes.

We will continue having fun with drawing shapes.  Does anyone have favourite shapes to draw?  I run out of inspiration.  And making new shapes keeps the pancakes feeling like something new.  Nothing stays the same here too long!

I am sending these pancakes to Healthy Vegan Fridays.

More vegan breakfast ideas on Green Gourmet Giraffe:
Chocolate muesli (granola) (v) 
French toast with coconut (v)
My breakfast burritos (gf, v)
Potato scones (v)
Roasted vegetable tofu scramble (gf, v)
Sausage patties (gf, v)

Isa's Vegan Pancakes
Adapted from Vegan Brunch

1 1/4 cup plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 cup soy milk
2 tbsp maple syrup
2 tbsp canola oil
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tbsp water, or as required
Margarine for frying

Blend until really smooth.  I use a high speed blender but this is not necessary though I would recommend some sort of blender if you want to use squeezy bottles.  Colour if desired. Pour into squeezy bottles.  Heat frypan over low heat.  Grease with a small knob of margarine.  Draw outline of picture with squeezy bottle.  Fry  (I think 5-10 minutes) until well cooked.  Remove from heat and fill in the picture.  Return to heat and cook until just set and maybe a bubble or two appearing.  Flip and let cook on second side for longer until golden brown.

Banana sourdough pancakes variations

I have made pancakes with these ingredients lists using the above methods.

2 ripe bananas
1 1/2 cups over ripe sourdough starter
1/2 cup wholemeal plain flour
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 tablespoon  maple syrup
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1 tsp beetroot powder (for pink pancakes)

2 ripe bananas
1 cup thick sourdough starter
1/2 cup oats
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 tablespoon  maple syrup
2 tsp milk 
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1/2 tsp turmeric (for yellow hue)

On the Stereo:
Little Earthquakes: Tori Amos

13 comments:

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    1. Thanks Lisa - I cannot take credit for the idea though I had had to tweak the recipe to suit the squeezy bottle

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  2. They're so cute! At first I thought the heart was a palmier!! :D

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    1. Thanks Lorraine - the pancakes take on the drawing lines quite easily - I also tried a swirly one which is in the photo collage but I am not sure you can see the lines in it

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  3. Oh how cool! I can see why Sylvia would want more of these - especially the minion one, that's impressively artistic!

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    1. Thanks Joey - yeah Sylvia is into the fun but I need to use up bananas and sourdough - hence the banana hybrid recipe

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  4. I so love your squeezy drawn pancakes! So fun and so creative..... Have you done flowers yet? Or snails? Or stars?
    Do you have to work really quickly and are you piping onto a hot pan?

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    1. Thanks Kate - have done flowers and stars (am very bad at star shapes I have discovered) and I almost did a snail the other day so will try and remember to try this. I have found that removing from the heat and piping the mixture is best because otherwise it cooks in one end too much more than the other - and cooking just until done on the low heat keeps the colour better. But even so working quickly with piping is best. There have been quite a few pancakes that don't look as good as these and Sylvia just does squiggles sometimes - she finds it hard to keep control of the squeezy bottle to make the lines straight - I think being fast and firm helps with this but am still learning myself.

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  5. I love all the shapes - so cute and creative.

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    1. Thanks Cakelaw - they keep me amused though they take more time

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  6. These look like a lot of fun!

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  7. Johanna, these look so wickedly awesome. I am impressed by your artistic side. I could definitely see this making breakfast fun!

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  8. Johanna, these look so wickedly awesome. I am impressed by your artistic side. I could definitely see this making breakfast fun!

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