A Different Kind of Cake Decorating

I was going to make an easy chicken curry for supper last night, but I made that plan before I knew that Dan was going to be working during the supper hour. The kids don't really care for the curry, but Dan really likes it, so it's good to make it when he's home to enjoy it. Also, even though it's a pretty easy dish, it seems like a waste to make it just for myself when the kids won't really eat much of it. Besides, when I got home, Zoe requested pancakes for supper. How easy is that? And why not?

I gave them a bunch of peppers to snack on while they waited for supper, so at least they had some vitamins and I made some pancakes and sausages for supper.

And I thought I'd change it up a bit:

Smiley pancakes!

I actually got this idea from an online photo album by one of my friends. She was travelling internationally and she found the coolest shaped pancakes somewhere. Always up for a challenge, I thought I'd give it a go. Here's how I did it.

I grabbed my turkey baster...


Carefully drew the design on the hot pan...

Let it cook for about 30 seconds before filling in the rest of the pancake with the turkey baster or a spoon.


Let it cook until there are little bubbles appearing in the batter that you just filled in, another 30 seconds or so and then flip it over and resume cooking like a regular pancake (roughly another 30 seconds).


Then I did some heart shapes (Zoe loves hearts)...




A flower shape...


A bird shape...


And my masterpiece, eaten cold by my husband when he came home from work:

In case you can't tell, it's an apple.