Light as a feather hotcakes

Name: Light as a feather hotcakes
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 4 Eggs, separated (Main); ¾ cup Full cream milk; 1 cup Plain flour; 1 tsp Baking powder; 1 pinch Salt; 50 g Butter; 1 dash Maple syrup; 1 bowl Fruit, peeled and sliced if necessary; 1 sprinkle Icing sugar, optional

Makes: 12

Tam West

Bite

This favourite at Cafe O never comes off the menu.

For the hotcakes

4	Eggs, separated (Main)
¾ cup	Full cream milk
1 cup	Plain flour
1 tsp	Baking powder
1 pinch	Salt
50 g	Butter

To serve

1 dash	Maple syrup
1 bowl	Fruit, peeled and sliced if necessary
1 sprinkle	Icing sugar, optional

Directions

Place the egg yolks and milk in bowl and whisk to combine. Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt and combine.
Beat the egg whites in a clean bowl and whisk until stiff (about the same consistency as the batter). Fold in 1 tablespoon of the whisked egg white to loosen the mixture, then fold in the remaining egg white.
Heat a large frying pan over medium heat. Add ⅓ of the butter and let sizzle. Use a large coating spoon (equivalent to 2 tablespoons) to drop in 4 spoons of batter. Cook until golden and bubbles appear on the top of each hotcake, then turn over and cook on the other side until golden.
Repeat twice more to use up all the butter and batter mixture.
Serve hotcakes with maple syrup and fresh fruit. Dust with icing sugar to finish if wished.