With pancake day only a day away i decided to make some pancakes,but thought i'd make some with a difference!
It's always good to have food with food and who says you have to stick to round pancakes?!?! Not me!
I began with the basic pancake recipe mix
4oz's plain flour
1/2 pint of milk
1 medium egg
pinch of salt
(few drops of green food dye)
I made the first pancake adding a few drops of green food dye to the mixture... ewww as you can see from the pic its not the most appetising looking of pancakes lol
I then carried on with making the plain pancakes-sml amount of oil just enough to cover the pan but making sure it was very HOT!
I then crushed some ginger nut biscuits as i had the idea that they would be great in the scene i was going to make-i took a red charger plate as i thought it would make a great background-nice and bright! i then went about making a scene with my pancakes-first i placed the crushed biscuits at the base and then i cut out a tree shape placing it on the plate and judging by eye where best to put the branches.I then took the green pancake and using scissors i cut out spiral shapes and then rolled them up to make flower like shapes to use in the scene.I broke off small pieces of green pancake in random sizes for leaves on the branches-It was starting to take shape nicely i thought!
Now i was left thinking what next ? i then had a look in my cupboards and placed on my worktop what i had and then BAM it came to me an OWL i'm gonna make an owl! I cut out another shape which i thought looked like the outline of an owl *twit twoo* an owl has to have big eyes hmm what have i got that i could use that was again edible...hmm there was my fruit bowl and a kiwi so sliced to slices and placed them onto the body shape YAY it worked! i placed two oval shape gold ebible beads as pupils,i loved the way it made the owl look all alert! now i needed to make him a nice breast of feathers,but what could i use?!?! aha cereal and my Son loved his malties or as he calls them "Squares" i got a knife out and tried to cut them in half... hehe what was i thinking of?as if they would slice neatly without breaking ermm nope! so instead i left them whole and placed them diagonally in a fashion that would make it look like his breast feathers..all plump!I sliced orange for the lil fellas wings and a triangle of ornage peel for his beak.With the pancake that was left over i cut out stars using a star cutter and took some silver and blue edible beads and placed them randomly.I finished it all off with some orange peel stars and a light dusitng of edible glitter... taa daa!!..........
Percy the Pancake Owl!!!
Thank you for taking the time to read my Blog & i hope this is the first of many to come!
Happy Shrove Tuesday
enjoy and have fun!
Below is a short video with more pics of my Pancake wintery Scene!
There are some great competitions out there aswell so get flipping those pancakes remember to take lots of pictures and try your luck & enter some!
Good luck to everyone!
