Easy English Pancakes - Sweet Crepes

These Easy English Pancakes - Sweet Crepes make the best breakfast. This simple British recipe uses a homemade pancake mix made from scratch. The ingredients for this thin pancake batter are flour, eggs, milk, sugar, oil, and vanilla extract is optional. Quick to cook, ready in minutes. Topping suggestions for crepes include traditional lemon and sugar, strawberry with icing sugar or banana with chocolate sauce. Can be made ahead and kept refrigerated or frozen.Perfect for Pancake day, UK and US measurements given.

📝 Ingredients

• 30 grams Sugar (Caster is best but granulated is fine too.)
• 360 ml Milk (skimmed, semi or whole.)
• 2 medium Eggs
• 1/2 tbsp Vegetable Oil (can substitute for other oils or use melted butter)
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract (optional)
• 160 grams Plain Flour
• Spray Oil (To spray pan between each pancake)
• Nutella
• Strawberries
• Lemon
• Sugar or Icing Sugar
• Banana
• Chocolate Sauce
• Raspberry Sauce

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1--- Prepare Pancake Mix Batter ---
2. 2Measure 30 grams Sugar, 360 ml Milk2 medium Eggs, ½ tbsp Vegetable Oil, and ½ tsp Vanilla extract into a large jug.
3. 3Combine: Use a hand blender or whisk, to combine the ingredients together. (can be done by hand using a whisk).
4. 4Flour: Add 160 grams Plain Flour in a spoonfull at a time. Continue to blend with the hand mixer between each spoonful. Whisk or blend until smooth and no lumps of flour can be seen.
5. 5--- Cook Pancakes ---
6. 6Spray: Prepare your pan with a few sprays of Spray Oil. Allow to heat before pouring pancake batter into the pan.
7. 7Fry: Try to keep the mixture in a thin layer, if needed you can tilt the pan to cover the whole surface of the pan.Fry on medium heat for about 1 - 1½ minute until you can easily get the spatula under the pancake.
8. 8Flip using your spatula onto the other side and cook for another ½ -1 minutes
9. 9Serve straight away or pile up into a stack, keep covered with foil to retain heat until all ready.
10. 10Toppings: Serve with your choice of toppings!