Alright, George.
Say action.
Hi Bold Bakers, it’s Saturday morning and Kevin and I had a hankering for some pancakes.
We are in our jammies, we’ve got baby George in the corner and we thought we’d do a video
showing you some incredibly light and fluffy pancakes.
Here’s the deal, I’m running low on flour, we’re 6 weeks into quarantine, I know you
guys have little to no flour out there.
So I’m gonna show you how you can make incredible pancakes, with little ingredients, and we’re
gonna use oats.
Super simple, and we’re just gonna make them right now.
So Kevin is behind the camera, you ready?
I’m ready to go.
Gemma am I starting to look like Will Ferrel from Elf a little?
A little bit.
Buddy the elf?
You’ve got the whole curly thing going.
Kevin thought for a hot second that he was gonna cut his own hair.
And I advised him against that.
Yeah so this recipe as always is on my website, but what we’re gonna do, like I said the
main ingredient is oats.
No flour at all in this.
So I’m gonna put my oats in this little jug, like this.
The reason I’m putting it in a jug is because we’re going to blend this up.
What you want to do is blend it until something that kind of resembles flour, coarse flour.
If you have oat flour you can absolutely use that.
It’s really easy to do this now I’m going to use a hand blender.
Now at home not everyone has one of these, you can use a food processor or you can use
a blender that you’d use to make smoothies or something like that.
So put your hand over this because, what you want to do is just grind up those oats.
Really simple.
You don’t have to go out and buy an expensive bag of oat flour.
Lots of people have Oats.
I know that oats are still in supermarkets, easily found.
See this took seconds, look at this.
Kevin are you watching this?
It’s looking good Gem.
Now, let me tell you something about oats.
Look at that, see that?
Not super super fine but nicely ground.
See just took a few seconds.
Gemma question for you, oh look at that.
There you go, this is the real deal.
Can you use any kind of oats?
I used rolled oats, you can use quick cooking oats, rolled oats, you can’t use steel cut
oats because they take a really long time and they’re really hard.
So any kind of oat that you can blend.
Into this we’re going to add a little bit of baking powder.
I’m glad to hear that baking powder is still out there.
Gem baking powder or baking soda.
Baking powder Kevin.
Why not baking soda.
Because I didn’t say baking soda I said baking powder.
Let that be a lesson to you all.
Do what I say, and you’ll have success.
Little bit of salt.
Give that a mix.
Do this is a sort of a tall container or jug because the oats can have a tendency to fly
out.
Now come here to me Kevin.
Bananas.
These are one of the main ingredients to these pancakes.
Here I have some nice perfectly browned bananas.
2 bananas, you’re looking for a cup of mashed banana.
And I have all this on the website.
So those are looking good, let me take off those knobby bits on the end.
Alright Gem let’s see those bananas, push them forward.
They look nice and squishy.
So now what you want to do, with a fork, just mash them up.
Mash them up really well.
I have a bit of an obsession with mashing bananas for banana bread and things like that
for recipes.
I just like to get it really fine.
Gem is that the perfectionist nature in you?
I’m not a perfectionist!
I would never consider myself a perfectionist, quite the opposite.
I think that’s why I do the style of food that I do because I’m just not a perfectionist.
That’s why I didn’t have a long career in fine dining because I just, it wasn’t
my cup of tea.
I like it a little more rustic, a little more realistic.
Not too much washing up with this recipe Kevin?
Good because I have to do the wash-up right?
Well the person who makes the breakfast doesn’t do the wash-up, that’s for sure.
That’s right.
Can’t wait till George can do the wash-up.
No George isn’t gonna do the wash up.
Now come here to me Kevin, 2 bananas, nice and mashed.
Into here I’m going to add in a little bit of vanilla extract.
Now this is a luxury if you have it, I do, Rachael Fagan sent me this from Hawaii, homemade
extract.
If you don’t have it, don’t worry about it, leave it out.
But honestly it does make a huge difference.
So if you wanna add a splash in there it does make a big difference.
And you can learn how to make your own… yes because we have a video for that.
Into this I’m gonna add in my eggs.
Now you’ll probably notice that this footage looks a little different, a little more rustic,
that’s because we set up 2 iPhones.
Little bit, just kinda spur of the moment right Gem?
Yeah.
So Gemma, question.
What if you don’t eat eggs?
If you don’t eat eggs check my egg substitution chart.
You can replace them with a flax egg or a chia egg.
Banana is also an egg substitute so you can bump up the banana and leave out the eggs
all together.
Did I add everything in?
It feels like I might have… no that’s everything.
Actually you know what I wanted to mention, when I first started making these pancakes
I thought that they were kind of healthy pancakes and I was like “I don’t know about that”
because I like regular pancakes.
We did a whole shoot here one day and we shot a whole pile of pancakes, these hands down
were everyones favorite.
They were my favorite, they were everyone’s favorite.
They’re absolutely delicious, I can’t even describe them.
Yo think that the oats might disappear but they just go all mushy and soft.
Like I said they’re nice and fluffy.
Add you’re dry there.
And it just makes for really lovely pancakes.
And a few ingredients, you see that Kevin?
Mix with your fork.
Here would you mind popping that into the microwave?
That’s our last ingredient, some melted butter.
For how long Gem?
20 seconds.
Alright.
You’re seeing me do this live here.
So while we’re waiting… while we’re waiting you know what you do?
Stick on your pan, so I have a nice big nonstick pan, medium low.
So let me tell you something, you can’t put pancakes on a hot pan.
You’ll get burnt on the bottom and raw in the middle.
So do a medium low and here’s what I do, when your pancake batter is not even finished
yet, stick on your pan and let it just heat up the appropriate amount, let it get nice
and warm and usually what you do is you don’t go change the temperature when you’re cooking
pancakes.
Just let it set up at the right temperature and then go from there.
Nice I think the butter should be melted.
Do you like my pants?
Here’s the butter cam.
Does that mean it exploded in the microwave?
I think I’ll be cleaning the microwave here soon.
Ready?
Your last ingredient, butter.
Fold that in there.
Gemma this is a really easy recipe.
Yeah super easy.
Just a handful of ingredients.
Yeah but these are cupboard staples.
Is there a replacement for oats?
Probably the question that I’m gonna get asked.
I don’t know, I don’t think so, you know.
Like if you want a different pancake batter than check out my website if you’re lucky
enough to have flour.
But I’m hoping that a lot of people right now have oats.
Come with me now Kevin.
Gem question is there a replacement for the bananas?
If people wanna make different flavors.
That’s a good question.
What you want to do is replace it with something that’s kind of bulky.
So like an apple sauce, like a fruit puree, applesauce, even pumpkin, pumpkin puree yeah
that would work well.
So I do a pretty big scoop, so that’s half, half a cup of pancake batter.
These are filling pancakes, it makes around, depends on how big you scoop them, but they
make around 4-5 pancakes, 6 if you stretch it.
So half a cup of batter, there you go put that over there.
I’m just gonna cook off 2 at a time.
So just like regular pancakes we’re gonna wait for, not as many bubbles appear on top,
but you can tell it’s kind of cooked around the edges and then we’re gonna flip them.
So we’re talking around 3 minutes or so on this side, then we flip them over, cook
them a little less on the other side and then we’re done!
So this won’t take long and this is perfect timing because baby George is asleep in the
corner.
He is no help at all and he might not be getting any pancakes.
No he can’t have pancakes he’s only 2.
months.
Kevin we should do more episodes in our jammies, and more relaxed, like this.
Ok Waffles is licking the baby, don’t lick the baby.
Ok you see here Kevin, bubbles have formed on top, just a little few.
So we know it’s strange times, our film crew can’t be in the house that’s why
Kevin and I are doing this, but we also know it’s a time when many of you are baking.
Our social media is flooded with pictures every day of what you’ve been creating.
And I love the fact that you are baking with me and trying all our different recipes and
it’s really fantastic to see that during this unpredictable and unusual time that you’re
still finding joy in baking so that’s awesome and it brings me a lot of joy.
Kevin come here to me I think I’m gonna flip them, see those little bubbles on top?
This is a good time to flip them.
Boop.
Oh look at Kevin.
Another one for the win lets see if we can do that.
Let's do it!
Oh no!
Almost.
Ok ready to go again.
Yeah.
How many pancakes does it make?
Like I said it makes around 4-5 pancakes but it depends on how big you do them, but I was
pretty generous.
Because the thing is, how often do I get to eat pancakes?
If I’m gonna do it then I’m gonna do it up right.
Isn’t that right Kevin?
You got it.
That’s how we do.
Oh no, George is awake.
2 minutes on this side I can feel they’re nice and fluffy.
I’m gonna pop these over here then I’m just gonna cook off the rest of our batter.
So Kevin why don’t you come in here for your pancakes.
Ok.
I just dropped one on the floor.
Oh man.
That’ll be for waffles later.
Yeah man.
They’re really light for pancakes made with oats, they’re surprisingly light, they’re
absolutely delicious.
These are really good.
You do taste a little of the banana but it’s a subtle sweetness.
You really don’t even need that much syrup even though, you really gotta go for the syrup.
Or the butter.
I almost prefer the butter.
Gem this is awesome, I’m really glad we just did this for fun.
Yeah I hope you guys enjoyed it too, I enjoyed having you in our kitchen for a family Saturday
breakfast.
Yeah let us know if you wanna see more of these videos, make sure to like, share, all
those awesome things and… we’ll see you back here really soon for more Bigger Bolder
Baking.