These Summer Fruit Pancakes are light and fluffy American style pancakes topped with fresh fruits, hazelnut nibs and maple syrup. Get the recipe below.

Sunday brunch

What are Sunday’s for if not for waking up to the sunshine streaming through your curtains, rolling out of bed and whipping up a big batch of pancakes before lazing on the sofa or out in the garden for the rest of the day? Besides being incredibly tasty, sweet and scrumptious, the best thing about my recipe for Summer Fruit Pancakes is that because it involves not two, but THREE types of fruit you can pretend they are pretty virtuous.

You can also add blueberries to the batter if you want to up the fruit content, or why not use wholemeal self-raising flour rather than white to make the breakfast almost completely guilt free!

How to make American Style Pancakes

American pancakes are known for being deep and fluffy, unlike the French crepe. It's a different cake batter and a slightly different way of cooking but follow these simple steps and you'll have delicious American style pancakes in no time.

First of all you need to put all of your dry ingredients into a bowl. In a separate jug, whisk together all of the wet ingredients then pour them into the well in the middle of the dry. You want to just stir until all of the ingredients are combined. This is for a couple of reasons, too much stirring will build up the gluten in the flour which will make your pancakes too dense and chewy. The pancakes also use baking powder as well as eggs to make them light and fluffy.You don't want to spend ages stirring or the bubbles that the baking powder creates will simply fade away.

Get the pan nice and hot before you add your pancakes. This is just like preheating your oven for any other sweet treat. One of the things I love about thick, American style pancakes is that they cook quickly (a minute or two a side will do it).

When bubbles start to form on the surface of the batter you need to get your spatula at the ready. The second the bubbles seem to set in the batter (rather than disappearing again) then they are ready to flip. It’s easy to tell when they are done as they are golden brown on each side.

Additional pro-tips for making pancakes

I often get asked before how I get my pancakes even sizes and perfectly round. The secret is that I use an ice-cream scoop to make sure I use the exact same amount of batter every time!

I also own a crepe pan. And whilst I thought they were a bit of a con and just took up too much space in the pan drawer, I haven’t had a single bad pancake since I’ve been using it. They regulate the heat perfectly and every pancake comes out perfectly, even the first one in the batch. You can order the same one that I have here.

The recipe

A Stack of American Style Pancakes topped with summer fruits

Summer Fruit Pancakes

These Summer Fruit Pancakes are light and fluffy American style pancakes topped with fresh fruits, hazelnut nibs and maple syrup.

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 5

Course Breakfast, Brunch

Cuisine American

Servings people

Calories 404.28 kcal

Ingredients

200 g plain flour
2 tablespoon caster sugar
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
300 ml milk
1 egg
1 tablespoon butter
oil to cook
6 tablespoon blueberries
8 strawberries sliced
1 mango peeled, stone remove and diced
4 tablespoon maple syrup

Instructions

Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and caster sugar into a bowl and create a well in the middle.
In a separate jug, whisk together the egg and milk until smooth and airy.
Finally, melt the butter and whisk into the egg and milk.Pour this mix into the dry ingredients just until you have a smooth batter - don't overmix!
Heat a frying pan high and add a little oil.
Once the pan is very hot, spoon roughly an eighth of the batter into the pan.
Cook the pancake for 2-3 minutes until bubbles begin to form through the mixture.
Flip over and cook for a further 2 minutes.
Serve with the fruit and a drizzle of maple syrup.

Nutrition

Calories: 404.28kcalCarbohydrates: 75.79gProtein: 9.72gFat: 7.16gSaturated Fat: 2.49gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1.41gMonounsaturated Fat: 2.52gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 48.42mgSodium: 206.08mgPotassium: 354.99mgFiber: 3.19gSugar: 33.9gVitamin A: 880.89IUVitamin C: 35.11mgCalcium: 161.5mgIron: 2.85mg

Keyword baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, blueberries, butter, caster sugar, egg, mango, maple syrup, milk, plain flour, strawberries

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