I love apples, and I love pancakes. I have a good basic buttermilk pancake recipe that I have been using for years and I wanted to create a really good apple pancake. A real apple pancake with apples inside, not just a glumpy mass of apples dumped on top. I played around with it a bit and this is what I came up with. I don't make many dishes that I can say "I would pay for this at a restaurant" but this is one of them. Enjoy !
Ingredients
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1/2 cup white wheat flour ( I always use King Arthur Flour)
3/4 cup regular flour
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 heaping tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 1/4 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup oil
1 egg
2 tbsp apple butter (I use low sugar from Adam's, a local market)
1 apple, peeled and diced finely ( I do this right before I use it)
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Mix the first 7 ingredients in a large bowl.
In a small bowl or a 2 cup measure, mix the rest of the ingredients except for the apple.
Now peel and dice your apple, then mix it in with the dry ingredients in the large bowl, getting all the apples coated.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry, mix it until no sign of dry flour, a little lumpy is cool, you don't want to mix this to death !
Let the batter sit for a least 5 minutes to let the soda and buttermilk play, then make your pancakes in your normal fashion .
You might need to cook them just a bit longer than plain ones, as they are a little thick and you want to make sure that the
apple is soft and cooked through.
<------ Simple, rustic looking and good !
