Baked apple pancake

It's perfect that my mother's baked apple pancake recipe seems to have launched me back into the kitchen after a month or so of lethargy and a poor, poor appetite.

 

 

 

Baked Apple Pancake

The apples:

• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon (I add one because Slim isn't a huge fan)
• 3 apples (peeled and sliced)

The batter:

• 1/3 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1/3 cup sugar

Melt the butter in a pie plate. (I put the whole thing in the oven as it's pre-heating.) Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon over the melted butter, and mix.  Add apple slices and bake for 12 minutes. 

Pour batter over apples, and bake at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes, or until brown on top. Loosen the edges with a knife, and invert onto a serving plate.

Incredibly easy, incredibly delicious.  My mother used to serve this at her fabulous brunches, along with different kinds of cheese, olives, fresh bread, bagels & lox, sliced tomatoes ... yum.  I may have to resurrect the brunch tradition.

*We made the snowman yesterday.  Only it's not a snow man: It's a "snow pregnant lady". Modeled after Dee from Rugrats.  See the resemblance?   

Comments

[Sister Carrie]

I really want to make this. Is it anything like a Dutch baby pancake?

[Alisa]

I've never had those, but the recipes online look similar, I suppose. This recipe has a sort of ... sticky caramel-apple coating on top. But the rest looks the same, maybe?

[Jo]

This sounds absolutely delicious. Cinnamon and apples - a match made in heaven however you do it.