Hi Bold Bakers. It is almost Valentine's Day. So as always, I invite my husband,
Kevin, the one time a year to come into the kitchen and bake with me
the one time well, hopefully more than that. But the thing I'm excited about this year
Gemma is this is our first time baking in our new kitchen. Yep.
So we've got the extra room, you know, we've got room to work. And what I thought we would do is
I have a recipe for pancakes for two, which I thought would be perfect for Valentine's Day.
But Kevin wanted to kind of kick that up a notch. Tell them what you want to do.
Well, that's right, Gem. So your pancake recipe is amazing. But with pancakes, oftentimes, it's about
what you add to it, what you put on top. Yeah, that's true. And so I figured we would test our
knowledge of each other and make what we think the other person's favorite flavor combination
would be. So what we're going to do is customize them for each other. That's right.
I mean, we've been married for almost 10 years. I think we know a lot about each other. So
here's the challenge. Do we really know what our favorite pancakes would be for the other?
Yeah, I think so. I'm fine with that. Okay, so we're gonna start off by
making the batter together, and I'll get the ingredients. Great. Let's
do it. So funny enough. One thing that we just talked about recently,
is that we have different styles, the way that we read and actually do a recipe. Is
that right? Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So even the whole gathering of ingredients,
I don't usually do that. I actually, I follow each instruction one by one. But I tend to go
off on like a hunt and gather mission for each versus getting everything together.
But then what happens if you don't have like raising agent or sugar or something? Well, I
sometimes run into Okay, Kevin,
what I'm going to do is I'll measure it ingredients and you can mix up the batter.
Okay, sounds great. And remember, the recipe is
on BiggerBolderBaking.com . You can find it right there.
And you can print it off from there. That's right.
I'm kind of old school. So I really like to print off recipes. Yeah, well, it's
also it's helpful to make notes sometimes I know.
Okay, so we have some flour. And this is just a batch enough for two people. So we only have one
cup of flour. It's like the perfect amounts you get like these lovely like four pancakes each.
Oh, that's so jam. That was one question. I was gonna ask you. So it's for each? Yeah, four
little ones. So you can stack you can do two big ones. But then you don't get the likes of the
drama of the stack. That's right. You want the drama? Yeah, yeah. We have a little bit of baking
soda in here to react with our buttermilk. Little bit of sugar. You don't need a huge amount of
sugar because you always put like maple syrup and like nice things. We'll see what we both see what
you put on them. Yeah. Then a little bit of salt. Kevin, could you get that mixing mix together?
You got it. So I made one mistake with another of your pancake recipes. The no
flour pancake. I actually put baking powder instead of baking soda.
Oh, that recipe? Yeah. And I didn't try them. But George did and the look on his
face. You made the baby. Try them and you didn't try?
No, I haven't tried them yet.
I made it again. And they were awesome. Because I figured out what the problem was.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. They're not like those are there. They're both raising agents. Yes.
They're not interchangeable. No, no. This is why we write on the lids yes to say what
they are. Right. Okay. And this is why we read our recipe from top. Okay, we'll get into that
later. Here's our blusher milk, and a bit of butter milk in here, butter milk. And because
these are buttermilk pancakes and make some like really soft and delicious, and then we're going
to add in a little bit of vanilla extract. For flavor. Always need that. Yeah, cracking an egg.
Could you want to put that in the bin, please. So you got Thank you.
And a little bit of melted butter if you wouldn't mind whisking this together, you got
it. So you may have been able to notice that actually,
two of those ingredients were homemade right. Water milk and the vanilla extract.
Yeah. Do you have recipes for if you don't have
buttermilk? You can make this yourself. It's really easy. Okie dokie we have everything we
need West dry. Kevin, if you wouldn't mind with a whisk there. Yeah, just whisking
this together until it just comes to a batter. Some lumps are okay, well, can
I give your special pancake tip? You can. So in one of your original recipes. Yeah. You'd
mentioned you're supposed to stir enough times to spell out pancake. That's still
Yeah, it's like seven times it does. Yeah, you really want to under like don't over mix a
pancake batter. Leave the lumps in there. Because when you get those really thick, fluffy pancakes,
it's when the batter was literally like just combined. So while you're mixing
that I'm going to tell a little story when I had my catering business in San Francisco
10 plus years ago when we just started dating 11 years ago, I used to make a lot of pancakes for
my business. And one time I'm Kevin was over and I was testing a recipe for cinnamon roll pancakes.
So this is before they became a huge thing online. And I have pictures of I've maybe will show them
of cabinet. I'm making the pancakes, but it was definitely a younger looking champion.
But it was a long time ago. But yeah, we've been making pancakes for a very long time was
and that was an amazing recipe, which Funny enough, was a pre Bigger Bolder
making video that we actually made. Yeah, it was. Some of you have discovered it.
Yeah. Don't go looking for it. And so there I think that's it our pancakes.
That looks good. Kevin, there's a few lumps in there, you can start mixing now.
Now, we should get stuck into the recipe. So what is this is this,
like I said, the challenge is that a baker should show up a good baker.
It's a challenge. But the good news is, is hopefully it's delicious results,
no matter who wins or loses. That's true.
But there is a winner.
Yeah, as long as we know, you know what our favorite things would be?
Yeah, I think I have some ideas. And there's a few things like stuck away
in our cupboards that I think I can pull out for this special occasion.
See, I can't even think what's in there right now. So I'm excited to explore it.
Well, you gotta go in have a look. You give me a head start and you cook off
your pancakes first I'm going to peace out and then I'll come back in and make mine
let's do it. So I really haven't thought about this in advance as far as I'm going to explore.
I want to you know, figure out kind of the right sort of combination. Come up with an idea. Wait to
Be inspired here. Whoa. Gemma loves Oreos. Gemma does love Oreo. That's it. That's an interesting
one. Let me see. Giant Nutella. She's not quite the Nutella person here. It might be a little
little simpler than I was originally thinking. But here's what we're gonna do.
Gemma toasted some pecans for cheesecake recipe.
I'm just looking for my little I had pecans chopped. I keep them for salads.
I've got an idea. Now, I think I'm gonna get the right combination of the things
that she would love and not even think about for breakfast and I even have a name for it.
boozy breakfast. Okay, so I just need one very important thing in here.
Syrup. And not just any syrup, Vermont pure maple syrup.
Now, let's go to the other room and let's get one more thing. So in order to make these boozy
breakfast pancakes, of course, I need some booze. So I have some bourbon here. Bourbon isn't her
favorite drink, but she does have a maple pecan butter sauce that has a bit of bourbon added
to it as well. So I think that's what I'm gonna make. What do you think he's gonna make for you?
I think Kevin is going to really kind of push the envelope here and get like really creative
because it's a challenge he's going to try and like really wow me. What I really hoping for
is like banana pancakes with blueberries on top because that's like my favorite combination. I
have a feeling I'm going to get something very different. I'm sure it's going to taste good.
But it's definitely I think going to be out there.
I have a small saucepan here. And I'm going to turn it on to medium low heat. So first, I'm
going to add the syrup. And now the bourbon and then just heat it up for a couple minutes here.
You're just looking to heat up the sauce so you don't want it to boil.
Alright, now we're going to cook off the pancakes. So another good tip from Gemma
is just use a quarter cup measure here to spoon out each of the pancakes it should give you
eight pancakes from this batter. So we're going to spoon out four of them.
You really want to try to make these round. So just spaced them out. Give him a room. They need
to breathe, and just keep spooning him out and they should end up about the same size.
So the best thing is, is if I made these too small, the ones Gemma makes for me will be extra
big. Okay, so we're just gonna let these cook for a couple minutes here. We're looking for the
telltale sign of bubbles on top of the pancakes, which tells you that they're ready to be flipped.
How do you think you're doing you think this is what Jim wants? I really do. I kept it simple,
but added that packet of boozy flavor that I think she'll love. So after thinking about it, I should
add some pecans to the syrup too so they get heated up as well. I think Gemma will love that.
Now just add in some butter and let that heat through. So I let these cook just for a few
more minutes. And I think they are perfect. Look at those big fluffy pancakes. Alright,
so I wanted to make Gemma's boozy breakfast pancakes really simple, but I may have made them
too simple. So I'm going to actually grate on a little bit of dark chocolate here because
chocolate and bourbon go really well together and I think the nuts will add an extra kick as well.
So I'm just going to grade a little Get a chocolate on top first, then add on her sauce.
And then of course, we need a big old scoop of whipped cream here.
And then a little bit more grated chocolate on top. I really think these capture with Gemma would
like inner pancakes. So I hope she likes them. But most of all, I'm excited to see what she makes me.
So I'm racking my brain trying to think of what to make for Kevin. And then I thought of something
something that's a little bit extra but still has like all the flavors that he loves, like he loves.
He loves like things on top and texture and like you know, color and everything. So what I'm going
to make for him is actually Banana Split pancakes. So I'm going to grab some cherries, some sprinkles
on top of these pancakes. I know sounds kind of crazy, but bear with me. And I need some sauces
from the fridge. Luckily, I always have sauce in my fridge for ice cream emergencies. Chocolate
sauce right here. And then in this random bowl, a little bit of strawberry syrup because you have
to have like chocolate and strawberry syrup on a banana split. So that's what we're having also,
and I think I might grab a carton of cream. I'm just going to get my banana. I think that's it.
Just kidding. I find some toasted hazelnuts in the cupboard. So I'm going to sprinkle those on top.
So we're going to cook off our pancake batter and I'm just realizing that he left me hardly
any pasture. Ever, no for like, two maybe three small pancakes. But anyway, we'll get going.
What do you think Gemma is gonna make for you? So I think Gemma is going to go the healthier route.
So right beside here, I'm going to add on a little bit of butter I think she will probably add
fruit. Maybe she'll add nuts, something like that
on top because she knows that I like to have a good healthy breakfast,
little bit of sugar. And then I'm going to add
thick slices of banana. I'm just going to fry these off until they're golden brown.
What do you hope she makes for you? I hope she takes Nutella and slathers it all over bananas,
and also pour syrup or something like that on top. Because you know if you're going to go big go big.
I can tell by the top of these pancakes that it's time to flip them over.
look gorgeous and golden brown. They are under getting lovely and thick. This is why I love
this batter so much. I was a little bit sad that he only had three pancakes. But the thing about
it is, if Kevin use the majority of the batter, that means I'm getting more pancakes. So it's
kind of a win win situation. These bananas are looking great. I might start flipping them over.
How confident are you right now that I like this. I have confidence because he likes a lot of
different flavor profiles, not just banana split that like he absolutely adores. What he loves
is like different textures. So they're like roasted bananas that are like fried
on the grill. I'm going to put some whipped cream on top, the different sauces like the
rich and then the kind of fruity and then like texture of chopped nuts on top like a feeling.
That's what's going to like appeal to him is just like the different dimensions of like flavors
and textures. So I'm pretty confident. It's my bananas are European caramelized. But what
I'm going to do is layer them in between the pancakes so you get that really nice texture.
Now this is all about presentation. I'm going to top these pancakes with some whipped cream,
chocolate sauce, strawberry sauce, sprinkles, a few chopped nuts. And of course a cherry on top.
There's no way he's not going to like this Easter. I hope not. So here we are the moment of truth. I
have to say there was no peeking whatsoever. I have no idea what is under this bowl.
I know I know. I'm I'm nervous. It
actually excited me to on both of those things.
But Jim, actually, I have to say, I think I did better than I thought I would
Oh, I did freeze glass cuz me I'm going to be eating.
You'll be the judge. Yeah, I've got I obviously I'm pretty confident
with my stack. Okay, so so we'll see if we reveal that we don't do it on three. Okay, ready. 12300
man,
so is this. Pecans where I was looking for pecans is that I know. I know Zach mentioned,
Zach mentioned. Yeah, I figured if I had them out, you would know that I had used No, I guess some
of them are gone. But you may not know exactly what what what is going on with mine. Let me
try to guess so with mine. Yeah, it's a banana split. Yes. It's a banana split. Yeah, I love
Joe's caramelized bananas in the middle of between the pancakes and their sauces and everything.
really freaked me out though, in a good way. No actually would have been
ice cream ice cream ice cream. I knew I knew it didn't I tell you?
I told you to how much okay, okay. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna.
Okay, so the thing is, is I'm not going to describe my pancakes. Yeah,
I want you to taste it and then you tell me what, okay, okay.
Now I'm worried that I'm not gonna get
my own my own recipe. What is that?
Okay, so it's okay, I guess you'll
you'll see. You'll see
can you taste it? Yep. So I call this Gemma's boozy breakfast pancakes. I was. What do you
say? Fuzzy pancakes.
Oh ma'am.
These are this is a banana split for breakfast. Yeah. That's pretty amazing. Yeah, that's pretty.
That's pretty neat. Actually, I gem I think that's a new a totally new
breakfast pancakes. Because you can make banana pancakes. Yeah. And add those on top.
The funny thing is, though, Jim, is I thought you were gonna make me something super healthy.
I figured you were gonna go like health. Healthy Breakfast
desserts.
Now. No, you thought you're sure You sure did go dessert?
Yeah. I want to see you recreate these as well. I think that would be pretty fun. Maybe come up with
your own. Yeah, the pancake for to challenge.
You ever go. Well, Jim, this was a whole lot of fun.
I always love baking with you. Oh, I just got some hazelnuts up so good. Yeah, well, they
would have been pecans if you hadn't made it.
I know. Make sure to get the recipe on Bigger Bolder Baking calm. We'll
include some of these ideas here. And let us know what you make.
Yeah, and maybe if you guys liked this video, Kevin go back again next year.
Hope so. I hope so. Let's do it. Happy Valentine's Day. Enjoy