I am trying to make pancakes for a two year old child. I used the following ingredients:

  • 1 ripe banana
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 60ml oats
  • 1/2 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/4 tablespoon Sri Lankan cinnamon powder

But it comes out too bitter. Now I am no expert. I have always made pancakes with storebought batter. But it felt to me that the problem was not the lack of sweetners but too much bitterness from either the cinnamon powder or baking powder. I can't tell which one exactly. Or if it because the cinnamon powder is Sri Lankan. That is what it says on the container. I don't know what the implications of that are.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Here's my own recipe:

    • 2 cups flour
    • 3 tablespoons sugar (honey/banana substitute here)
    • a pinch of salt
    • 2 teaspoons baking powder
    • 2 eggs
    • 4 tablespoons butter
    • 7/4 cups of milk

    Other recipes I see have 1-2 teaspoons baking powder and/or 1 teaspoon of vanilla. I suspect its the cinnamon that is hurting the flavors. I would reduce that to a pinch, or forgo it altogether and sprinkle it on the finished pancake.

    Another issue I suspect is that there isn't a good solid/liquid ratio. According to the cookbook Ratio, There should be roughly a 1:1 amount of milk (or equivalent) to your flour/oats, and its also missing butter, which is ~ 2:1 flour-butter ratio. The full ratio should be around 4:4:2:1 (flour, milk/liquid, egg, butter). The banana and honey will substitute for some of the liquid component. The book suggests this recipe based on those ratios:

    • 8 ounces milk
    • 2 large eggs
    • 2 ounces butter (1/2 stick, melted)
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 8 ounces flour
    • 2 tablespoons sugar
    • 2 teaspoons baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon salt