19 Mar DIY Rainbow Pancakes

Are you loving all the rainbow food that has been popping up on social media? We are more than happy to share a ‘how to’ on making your own colourful food with this rainbow pancake recipe.

Preparation time: 10 Minutes
Cooking time: 10-15 minutes
Resting time: 30 minutes

Makes: 12 pancakes

Ingredients
250 g plain (all-purpose) flour
1 pinch fine salt
50 g golden caster sugar
1 sachet (7.5 g) vanilla sugar or 1 teaspoon liquid vanilla extract
10 g baking powder
2 organic eggs
50 ml sunflower or grapeseed oil
150 ml full-cream milk
Natural food colouring (green, blue, yellow and pink)
60 g white chocolate melts
Coloured decorations for sprinkling
Coconut flakes

How to make Rainbow Pancakes

Mix together the flour, salt, sugar, vanilla sugar (or extract) and baking powder in a mixing bowl.

Add the eggs one at a time, whisking with a fork. Add the oil and whisk again. Pour in the milk and whisk until the batter is quite smooth.

Divide the batter between three or four bowls (depending on the number of colours), add a little natural food colouring to each, mix well and let the batter stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Pour a small ladleful of batter into a hot, greased frying pan, turning over each pancake when bubbles appear.

Stack the cooked pancakes on a plate. Melt the white chocolate in a double boiler.

Pour the melted white chocolate over the pancakes, decorate and sprinkle with coconut flakes.

For more colourful DIY’s and recipes check out our Mermaid Toast, Unicorn Slime and Food Trends We Want To Try.

This is an edited extract from Unicorn Food by Sandra Mahut, Murdoch Books, $19.95, available in stores nationally.