Recipe of the Week - Crepes & Chocolate Sauce

It wouldn't have been right of me to post the pictures of our crepes the other night and then not to share the recipe, so here we are.

It is best to make the mix about half an hour or so before making the crepes so that it has time to settle. You might notice when it's time to make them that the mix has thickened slightly. If so, just add a little more milk. You want this mixture on the thin side or else your crepes will be too stodgy.

Neither of these recipes need to be adapted if you want to make them with 'normal' ingredients.

For the crepes you will need:

400ml rice milk

2 eggs

2oz sugar

6 oz Doves Farm Wheat Free Plain Flour

~Heat your frying pan up while you are making up the mix. Lightly oil it too.

~Measure the milk out into a large jug/bowl and whisk in the eggs.

~Add the sugar and flour and whisk by hand until you have a smooth batter.

~Pour either a ladle-full or a wee dollop into your hot pan, swirling the pan around as you do so that you have  a very thin layer of batter right round the pan.

~Once the mix starts to bubble then flip it over with a spatula and cook the other side. 

~Best served warm.

For the chocolate sauce you will need:

200g dairy-free chocolate

200ml dairy-free cream substitute (Alpro Soya or Oatly)

~Just break the chocolate into chunks and add to a pan with the cream.

~Melt over a gentle heat, stirring occasionally.

This sauce is so quick and easy to russtle up for a mid-week treat. We often have it with banana and ice cream, or just the ice cream, or chocolate puddings, or fruit salad, or..............

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It's Pancake Day!

Never ones to pass over any celebration of food, the boys and I made pancakes tonight in celebration of Shrove Tuesday.

Technically they weren't pancakes but crepes, but that is what everyone associates with Pancake Day so that's what we had.

Here is little man with his little pancake.

Now here is Calum, eager to get to flip his pancake.

And here is the flipping.....

It was then James' turn to flip his pancake, and it was at this point that I realised that without a fancy camera, it's not really possible to take a good photo of a pancake being flipped!

In order to share their skills at flipping these pancakes/crepes I then took a couple of wee videos but first I thought I show how I had my pancake.

Smothered in warm chocolate sauce, and stuffed with bananas (and a little more sauce!)

Onto the flipping.

First Calum and then James & David.

Gaelic word of the day:

spòrs (as it looks) - fun

Bha tòrr spòrs againn a nochd (va tor spors ag-een a noch-g) - we had a lot of fun tonight

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Recipe of the Week

One of our family traditions is that every Saturday and Sunday morning we have pancakes for breakfast. Like so many traditions, I don't actually remember when or why this started, but I do know it has been for a good few years.


When my granny (my dad's mother) passed away about 7 years ago, I inherited her griddle. It really is the best thing ever for making pancakes and scones on, so much better than a frying pan. I love the fact that it has so much history and to think how many scones/oatcakes/barley bread etc must have been cooked on it over the decades. I had to include a shot of it here:


Wheat & Dairy Free Breakfast Pancakes

9oz wheat free self raising flour
1oz sugar
1tsp cream of tartar
300ml oat milk (soya milk is fine too but has a slightly stronger flavour)
2 eggs
1tbsp oil

-Before you begin the mixture, put your pan on to heat up. Wipe over with some oil if it isn't non stick.
-Measure the milk into a large bowl or batter jug (I LOVE my Pampered Chef Batter Jug)
-Add the eggs and beat together then add the oil.
-Add all the dry ingredients and beat well with a whisk until you have a smooth batter.
-Once your pan is really hot, pour dollops of the mixture onto the pan.
-When bubbles appear, turn them round to cook the other side.


In the summer we usually serve the pancakes with lots of fresh berries and lashings of pancake syrup.

When the berries are out of season and the weather is colder we tend to have them with bacon and scrambled eggs.

To finish with, here I am tucking into my pancakes, complete with my mug of tea and my favourite little tea cosy!

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