Gluten-Free Angel Pancakes

Hi Friends, so happy to have you here in the kitchen with me again! We are making Angel Pancakes today. My mom loved these pancakes. She ate them the way my grandmother did with a large pat of butter and a healthy sprinkle of granulated sugar. Just like a flat donut. These are so tender and tasty, unlike so many of the pancakes you get at a restaurant. Light and heavenly enough to want seconds. They are wonderful with real maple syrup and fresh fruit too. I developed the recipe with inspiration from a biscuit and a pancake recipe from The Joy of Cooking.

Angel Pancakes

Dry

1 3/4 cups Cup4Cup multipurpose flour

1 teaspoon Koda Farms Sweet Rice Flour

1 teaspoon Oat flour

1 teaspoon cornmeal or cornflour

1 tablespoon sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

¼ cup cold butter cut into small chunks

Wet

2 large eggs

2 cups buttermilk

1 tablespoon applesauce, unsweetened**

In a large bowl, mix dry ingredients together with a whisk. Use a pastry blender or fork to cut butter into the flour mixture until it resembles bread crumbs. Cutting butter in is basically getting butter into very tiny pieces in a dry mixture. Set aside.

Mix eggs, yolks, buttermilk, and applesauce together in a small bowl. Add to dry ingredients and mix until totally combined. The batter thickens up as it sits and may look a bit puffy…this is OK and the pancakes will cook just fine so don’t worry about it. Heat a griddle or a heavy-bottomed pan on the stove on medium heat, add butter or a bit of oil to prevent sticking. The pan is at the right temperature when a water drop dances when dropped into the hot pan. You can make a small tester pancake to see if the heat is where you want it. I use a scoop to drop even-sized pancakes a few inches apart into a pan or griddle. You can also use a large spoon for this. The pancake is ready to flip when the edges are firming up and bubbles are breaking through and staying open on the surface of the batter. If your pancake is getting too brown before cooking, turn down the heat a bit and try again. I love pancakes with just about anything on them or nothing but butter. This pancake is good enough to eat plain. Enjoy!

**I always make these with applesauce in them but forgot to for the taping of this episode. Pancakes were great without this addition but are better when it's added.**

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