I started making these Dutch baby pancakes
which I am like a huge fan of.
They're so easy
and they're so show-stoppingly cool
that that's what I thought we could start the new year
off with.
Yay!
Bring it!
All right.
So we're gonna start off
by making the batter.
It's basically sort of like a crepe batter.
And it's a really good idea to think
about making these yesterday a day ahead.
They just come out much taller and straighter
but if you don't remember, that's,
that's fine but the best results,
the most showstopping results come
if you think of it the day before.
So we start off in the blender with a half a cup of milk.
A half a cup of flour,
a teaspoon of vanilla,
three teaspoons of sugar
and three tablespoons of melted butter.
And you just get all that...
(blender whirring)
(imitating blender sound)
There you go. That's it.
That's the batter.
That's really easy to whip up the night before.
So then,
you have, you know,
you can use a cast iron pan
or a non-stick pan heated up in the oven
before you are ready to, to start your Dutch baby.
Put a little pat of butter in there.
And then,
and always remember the handle's hot
It is hot. When its just come out
of the oven.
That's hot, baby.
So we just get the butter melty.
And when you see all the bubbles dissipate,
then we take half of the batter that we just made
and we get it in there.
And then we just shoot these guys
in the oven for 20 minutes.
So there we go,
Dutch baby, working.
All right.
I have a couple that are just about ready to come
out of the oven.
They look all exciting,
but so what you can do
for the toppings for your Dutch baby,
I mean you could put anything you like
on it for like a pancake or whatever.
I have some bacon that I had some lard on
some just like,
four slices of bacon
that I rendered, they're getting nice and crispy.
So I'm gonna take those out of the pan
and just hold those on the side.
And then I'm going to just saute some apples
in this bacon fat, yum.
I have a couple of apples I'm peeling.
I'm gonna slice into kind of nice chunky apple pieces.
I like a chunky apple.
Oh my God.
You're gonna put the apples in the bacon fat?
Yum!
Yes.
And then we're going to finish it
with a little bit of brown sugar,
cinnamon and maple syrup. Hello!
Oh my God!
Yum!
So I'm just going to saute my apples
in the bacon fat
just to get everybody really nice and soft.
We're gonna just get that started,
tossed around in that.
Ooh, you know what?
I realized I forgot to tell you.
In the batter, oh my gosh,
we need three eggs in that batter too, whoopsy-daisy!
(both laughing)
Oh my God.
I'm so excited talking to you
that I'm missing half the ingredients
in my recipe. (Rachael talking indistinctly)
Oh my gosh, Rachael.
What're you doing to me, Rach?
Oh my gosh! All right.
First of all, can I just say,
can you look at this?
Whoa, look at the size of that!
So we just take this guy right
out of the pan, look at that.
Hello big beautiful. Oh my gosh!
And then I'm gonna top it
with my apple and bacon mixture.
I have the apples that I sauteed
in bacon fat with brown sugar,
cinnamon and finished it with a little bit of butter.
I topped it with just straight up whipped cream,
with nothing in it.
I've all this whipped cream that I,
my fancy whipped creams.
I decided to go straight up unseasoned
and then I topped the whole thing
with a bunch of crispy,
crunchy bacon, crispy critters.
Yum!