bill granger's ricotta hotcakes

10 July 2009, 11:16

hee! look at my tubs of ricotta! the awesome fleur from mark communications sent some tubs of Perfect Italiano ricotta cheese for me to try out and the first thing that crossed my mind was bill granger’s famous ricotta hotcakes…


i followed this recipe but minus the honeycomb butter. first, line up your ingredients. it’ll make you feel more organised. i know i sure did. you’ll need: 3/4 cup of milk; 4 eggs, separated; 1 cup plain flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 250g ricotta; butter to oil the pan and a banana


first, place tub of ricotta, egg yolks and milk into a bowl and stir. sift in the flour and the baking powder and stir until just combined


then in another bowl whisk the egg whites until stiff peaks form


fold egg whites through batter in two batches. if you have ever made macarons you will have been told that your mixture should look like ‘magma’. yeah i dunno either. just don’t overstir yeah?


whack in a dollop of your butter to grease your pan and when it’s nice and hot ladle some of your magma mixture in the pan. cook on low to medium heat and flip when you start seeing little bubbles in the hotcake or when it becomes nice and golden underneath


ooh baby! now go forth and multiply and grow your hotcake stack!


when you’ve finished your hotcake mixture give the pan a quick wipe with a paper towel and dollop some butter in and chuck in your halved bananas


i was really sad that i couldn’t make the honeycomb butter so to make myself feel better i made butterscotch sauce! oh man it’s my absolutely favourite sauce evah! the first time i made butterscotch sauce was in a certain pancake restaurant and i was making 5litres of the stuff and i walked away from the pot came back later and the sauce was everywhere hoho lesson learnt- don’t ever leave your sauce alone! so anyways i kinda made up the recipe cos i didn’t have much brown sugar but basically it’s cream, butter, vanilla extract and brown sugar.


mmm the pouring shot


ohhh doesn’t that look good. oh wait one more thing!


heh a dusting of icing sugar! the hotcake recipe made about 10 medium sized hotcakes and don’t worry if you can’t finish em all just stick it in the fridge for breakfast the next day =D

1. ill bring my ricotta to the boat and you can whip this up for everyone! :P I can donate my Dulce le Leche to go with it :P

   — billy@ATFT    Jul 10, 11:30 AM    #
   
   

2. omg that looks good! i’ve been craving ricotta hotcakes since you tweeted your pic… argh… the pain!

   — Helen (grabyourfork)    Jul 10, 11:32 AM    #
   
   

3. breakfast the next day because you had the first lot of pancakes for dinner? :)

   — shez    Jul 10, 11:40 AM    #
   
   

4. YUUMMM. They look awesome! I can’t believe the recipe makes so many. So making these soon! Btw I think Billy is on to something awesome with adding dulce de leche to it :)

   — Steph    Jul 10, 12:19 PM    #
   
   

5. yum i’ve been wanting to make pancakes lately but just.. never have time to in the mornings i supose with work + gym + running

   might just have to make them for dinner cos thats the only time that i can cook something decent!

   — betty    Jul 10, 04:06 PM    #
   
   

6. TORTUREEEEEE!!! that butterscotch sauce is classic!!!

   — Trisha    Jul 10, 05:32 PM    #
   
   

7. Nooooooooooooooo!!! Now I need to go get the ingredients to make it!! That sauce looks really good, will have to try it out ;)

   — SoRMuiJAi    Jul 11, 12:13 AM    #
   
   

8. Yummmm – looks like a great idea for breakfast tomorrow

   — Mr. Taste    Jul 11, 01:16 AM    #
   
   

9. i love the look of these pancakes! i reckon i could gobble up the whole batch of 10 :D

   — panda    Jul 11, 03:23 PM    #
   
   

10. omg these looks so good…. i want some now… !

    — Betty    Jul 12, 09:53 AM    #
    
    

11. I had these yesterday in Surry Hills!!! Looks a pretty simple recipe – must try..! :)

    — Tina    Jul 12, 08:03 PM    #
    
    
12. I found your food blog going through a few links. Glad I ran into it. Didn’t know that the food blog/recipe community was so big online. I love your posts! — Caleb    Jul 13, 11:10 AM    #
    
    

13. Isn’t this recipe just a winner? They’re absolutely delicious and so easy to make. Thanks for sharing :)

    — Jo    Jul 13, 08:13 PM    #
    
    

14. Yum, that looks great! I’m going to give it a go :)

    — Lene    Jul 13, 11:44 PM    #
    
    

15. I love the pouring shot!

    — Howard    Jul 13, 11:51 PM    #
    
    

16. These pancakes look so yummy! I never considered putting butterscotch sauce on pancakes but I will be trying now! Great blog by the way! :)

    — Rilsta    Jul 14, 06:16 PM    #
    
    

17. billy: mmm dulce de leche…
    helen: heh im good with breakfast foods not so much the savouries
    shez: ah! you know me so well!
    steph: heh dulce de leche on anything would be perfect mmm
    betty: yes! dinner! do it!
    trisha: yumyum i love my butterscotch sauce mmm
    sormuijai: oh dude it was heaps easy make it make it!
    mr taste: heh did you do it? post post!
    panda: haha all 10 pancakes? id like to see that!
    betty: mmm it was delish!
    tina: heh how much was it…
    caleb: thanks dude!
    jo: yep it’s super easy and so yummy!
    lene: oh do it! doooooo it!
    howard: me too! i keep staring at it! wish i made a video
    rilsta: thanks dude! and yes butterscotch sauce on pancakes is awesome!

    — chocolatesuze    Jul 16, 12:09 AM    #