Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale and on this episode of Laura in the Kitchen, I"m so excited because,
well, see, I love everything red velvet, and Valentine's Day is around the corner, and
if you're anything like me, you'll be staying in in your cozy nice house because it is too
cold out and I don't want to deal with crowds and all that fun stuff, which is not that
fun for me.
So we'll be staying in, making breakfast in bed, and making a really lovely dinner, Joe
and I, but for breakfast, I figured I wanted to share with you, a great option.
I'm going to share my Red Velvet Pancakes with a lovely cream cheese drizzle, they are
so good, think red velvet cupcakes but in a pancake form.
They're incredibly easy to do, you'll require just a few ingredients, and it really is - it
just feels special, just feels like you've gone the extra length to do something really,
really special for the occasion, and the ingredients you'll need are some basic ones, starting
with some all purpose flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, salt and sugar, buttermilk,
egg, you'll need some melted unsalted butter, vanilla extract and some red food coloring,
and I'll share with you the ingredients for the cream cheese drizzle in just a little
bit, but for now we are going to get started on the actual batter.
Really easy, so, so easy!
I'm going to mix together my dry ingredients, you can double up the recipe to feed a family
of four to six, this is going to make enough for the two of us, plus with some leftovers,
and here's a really fun thing, I don't know if I ever shared with you before, but I love
storing leftover pancakes in my freezer, like I freeze them and then I just warm them up
in my toaster oven.
Pop!
In my toaster, it's not a toaster oven, see I try to be cool and then I just destroyed
myself.
In a toaster, I like reheating them in a toaster!
So, now I'm just going to take my buttermilk, which is really nice and thick, my egg, butter,
and then just a splash of vanilla, and I'm going to give these just a little mix before
I add them to my dry ingredients.
Can I get this vanilla opened?
Yes, I can.
A nice little drizzle of vanilla.
And then just give this a nice whisk to combine.
Add the wet into your dry, and now all you're going to do is mix this together to combine,
and once you have your batter pretty much together, we're going to start adding some
of the red food coloring, but I want to get some of this mixed up really well first.
Okay, you can see that there's a few lumps in there, but this is the thing, a few lumps
in a pancake batter is not a bad thing, you don't want to over mix this because otherwise,
your pancakes won't be really fluffy and delicious, and now I'm going to add in a little bit of
food coloring, these are red velvet after all, if you don't want to bother with red
food coloring, you don't have to they will taste exactly the same, but, again, we're
going for that red velvet vibe so I'm - red velvet vibe, that's pretty cool - I'm going
to add some red food coloring to my red velvet pancakes.
It's like my excitement is taking over here.
And then I just start with a little bit and get that mixed in, and then you just keep
adding until you get the intense color that you desire.
Okay, this looks great, now I've got my griddle here preheating, now I have a non stick griddle
pan, so that means I don't have to grease my griddle pan to make my pancakes.
And truth be told, sometimes I like cooking my pancakes in a little bit of butter, but
most of the time I like cooking them on just my non stick griddle because they come out
perfect and fluffy, they don't overly brown, so I prefer cooking them on this.
If you do not have a non stick one, you must grease your skillet or your pan because the
batter will stick to whatever you're cooking it on.
I'm preheating this over about medium heat, I'm going to let my batter sit for about five
minutes while this is preheating and then we'll cook up our pancakes.
My pan is ready, the batter has rested and now I'm just going to put little dollops and
just let them cook for a couple of minutes on each side, you know what pancakes look
like when they're ready to be flipped, they'll start to form bubbles, kind of all around
the top and then you just flip them and let them cook a couple more minutes and then you're
done!
Keep an eye on them and I'll show you what they look like once we're all done, and once
they cool a bit, then we can start making - can I make more of a mess by the way?
We can start making our glaze.
All my pancakes are done, and now like I said you can add more red food coloring to get
them really, really red or you can even do green for like St Patrick's Day, you could
do whatever you want, think about this - as far as food coloring goes, you want to do
yellow, do yellow, it's completely up to you, this is the right color for me, the world
is my pickle, this is how I'm diggin' it today.
Now we're going to work on the glaze, now it's really like a glaze meets frosting, I
suppose, it is delicious, you could serve these with maple syrup and they would be fabulous,
but why not go all the way, I've got a little bit of cream cheese in my bowl, really important
that your cream cheese is at room temperature, and as you can see I"m kind of just mixing
it around to make sure it's really soft, I don't want this to be hard because then it
won't incorporate everything well.
I'm going to add just a teeny tiny bit of vanilla, more than a teeny tiny bit, but hey,
I like vanilla so I am okay with a little extra drop.
And then, of course, we need some confectioner's sugar, because this needs to be sweetened,
and what I do is I kind of just work with my spatula and just work to mix in my confectioner's
sugar and then I start adding a little bit of milk at a time, once my sugar is incorporated,
and just mix it until I get the desired consistency that I'm looking for.
Some people want this to be like a frosting, some people want this to be really thin like
a syrup, you do and add as much or as little as you want.
I'm just going to add a little bit more, I'm going to keep on mixing until I've got the
right consistency.
This is perfect for me.
As you can see I've got a little plate ready for myself, priorities, of course!
I need some ready.
And now I'm just going to add a little drizzle of this gorgeousness, and you can make it
thinner if you want to but I like it on the thick side because I really am treating this
almost like a frosting, I know, I'm so bad.
I mean, who does that for breakfast?
I do!
Not embarrassed either.
Because you know what, it's a treat, and once in a while you have to treat yourself otherwise
you'll go nuts.
That's what my mother says and that is a rule I have been following my whole life, clearly.
Look at that, they are just so perfectly cooked.
Mmm!
That is so good, you know, you could make regular pancakes, and that's perfectly acceptable,
but when something as special as red velvet pancakes are so easy, why not go through the
extra step and make something really special for your romantic breakfast?
LauraintheKitchen.com has the recipe waiting for you, if you make these please make sure
you send a picture on social media so that I can see your recreation.
Hope you've enjoyed spending time with me and I'll see you next time!
Bye!