Hi, everyone and welcome to Nicko's Kitchen's Budget Meals today.
We're going to be making something I tried out in the US
and I fell in love with.
Cheesecake Pancakes.
So, let's get started.
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So, guys, we're going to be making some cheescake pancakes
and it's something that I had a couple of times when I was in the US
at a place called iHop and I just fell in love with them.
I thought the flavour was really, really cool
and I've been dying to get back home and try them out in my kitchen.
So, just into the blender here, I've got some softened butter.
Of course, I've got our cream cheese.
I'm also going to be adding in some butter milk.
One egg.
Now, I know I said wet ingredients, but I'm going to add in just a little bit of sugar to this as well.
And, also, I'm going to be adding in some plain cookies, or biscuits, as we call them here in Australia.
Now, if you're in the US, you'd use some graham crackers for this. We can't get them here.
But I'm just going to, just roughly crumble it up. The blender will do the rest.
All the elements of the cheesecake are in this little mixture here.
It's got our cookie base, like a cheescake would and also that cream cheese.
Just going to pulse it a few times.
And let her rip.
So, the smell in here is just amazing and that's what we're left with
And another reason why we did it in the blender is I want it as fine as possible
because I don't want a lumpy pancake. I want our pancakes to be nice and silky smooth.
So, I've got some self-raising flour in a bowl here, a large bowl.
If you can't get self-raising flour, just use normal flour
with about half a teaspoon of baking powder added.
Now, I'm going to pour in our wet mixture to the flour
And we're just going to mix this around.
And I'm using a whisk because I want to keep air in there.
I want it to be nice and light and fluffy like I said.
So, that's done. All we have to do now is fry them up.
So, just into a pan, I've got some butter, just some softened butter,
and I'm going to melt that down.
So, you want a low to medium heat for the pancakes.
Always cook your pancakes low and slow. That's the secret behind a good one.
If you put up too much heat you'll burn them and they'll be horrible and raw in the middle.
So, the first pancake, straight in.
And you want to cook this for, about, two and half minutes each side
or until you see those bubbles starting to pop up on the surface.
Once that's done, flip it over, another two to two and a half minutes.
Keep repeating that process with all the batter you have
and then we can serve up these bad boys and they will be absolutely fantastic.
Alrighty, let's get stuck into this threestack,
if you want to make more, for an individual portion, go for it.
I've just drizzled a little bit of maple syrup over the top.
You can serve them with cream, some syrups if you wanted to
like strawberry syrup would be really good, but here we go.
Oh... I love it.
I absolutely love it and that cheescake flavour?
If you haven't had these before, you will be blown away
by that cheesecake flavour that is happening right there in the pancake.
Truly amazing, truly delicious, you've got to try that.
So, I hope you enjoyed these cheescake pancakes as much as I did
and you can make them at home and they are so, so good.
All the ingredients are below.
I'll see you this Wednesday for another What You Want, so, make sure
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So, until then, take care.