Oven-Baked Apple Pancake
We’ve been eating these a lot lately since apples are in season and relatively cheap. The original recipe came out of a Betty Crocker cookbook and we follow it for batter, temp, and time. The recipe makes one pie sized pancake.
Ingredients:
- apples & spice
- 2 tbls butter
- 2 2½-3″ apples
- brown sugar
- cinnamon
- nutmeg
- ginger
- allspice
- batter
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup flour
- ½ cup milk
Directions:
- preheat oven to 400°F
- while oven is warming, core & thinly slice your apples
- when the oven is warm put butter in the bottom of a glass pie plate or quiche dish and melt it in the oven (don’t let it brown)
- coat sides of dish with the melted butter, then sprinkle with brown sugar until bottom is mostly covered
- sprinkle with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice to taste
- spread apple slices over the bottom of the dish
- crack eggs into a bowl and beat lightly
- add flour and milk, then mix just until blended
- pour batter evenly over apples and place directly into oven
- bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until puffy and golden
- run a knife around between the pancake and dish to loosen
- place a dinner plate over the baking dish, firmly grasps 2 side with pot holders, and flip
- scrape out all the yummy sugar and spice syrup from the bottom of the pie plate and enjoy
Notes: You can swap apples for other in season fruit and adjust the spices as you see fit. You can also skip the fruit, sugar and spice and then top the plain pancake with whatever you like.
