Pancakes and Pinterest

Doesn't looking at this Cinnamon Roll Pancake 

make you just

swirl

oops, I mean swoon!

I saw a picture of this on Pinterest and

I was drooling.

Ok, some of you know about Pinterest and

many of you asked about it.

Pinterest is a "way to catalogue the things

you love" as they say on Pinterest.com.

I would describe it as a place to create your

own personal bulletin board collages from

internet images.

To begin, visit Pinterest.com and request an invite.

They may take a while to get back to you, but

they will eventually send you an email and 

have you set up an account and choose a password.

Next you create a "board" or a collection of

interest, for example, I created a food board that

I titled "Food As Art".  Then I began "pinning" or

clicking on beautiful photos I saw and Pinterest

automatically catalogues those photos on my 

"Food As Art" board.  I can create as many different

boards as I want.  I just saw one tonight that had

a different board for every color and it was just a

collection of inspiring photos in that color.

When you click on someone's board then you

can be redirected back to the original source, so 

for instance on the Pinterest picture of the

Cinnamon Roll Pancake, when I clicked on it, 

I found the original post at

Recipe Girl.com so I could make the recipe.

Next you can follow friends and they can follow

you and then all of their picks show up on your

main Pinterest page.  You can "repin" their picks

or pins and add them to your boards or just enjoy

them on your main board.

From what I can tell, Pinterest automatically

connects you to your Facebook friends

and then tells you that they are members of

Pinterest and asks if you want to follow them.

You can also follow people you find on Pinterest

that you like their taste.

First let me say, that Pinterest will up your

drooling on your computer, so if that is

a danger to your equipment, don't even get started!

You will be drooling over food, fashion, places, spaces,

quotes, etc.

If you want to follow me, become my Facebook 

friend by sending me an email and I will 

tell you my Facebook account then when you

get your Pinterest account or if you already

have one, we will be asked if we want to follow

each other on Pinterest and anything I "pin" will

come up on your main board.

(I added this after I posted, but now I have a

"FOLLOW ME ON PINTEREST"

on my sidebar if you want to follow me.)

Now, back to these fabulous Cinnamon Roll Pancakes.

Recipe Girl stacked them 3 high and I just had to

follow suit for the photos, but they are so rich and

delicious you are going to be really lucky to

eat more than one.

You basically make a fluffy pancake and

then swirl in a butter, brown sugar and

cinnamon mixture.  When you flip it over

the cinnamon sugar melts and creates

as she describes,  "craters of crusty, sugary cinnamon."

Then, just to make it complete, you top it with a cream

cheese glaze!  Oh, it is even better than it looks.

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes Recipe

Pancakes

4 C. all-purpose flour

8 teaspoons baking powder

2 tsp. salt

4 C. milk

4 T. vegetable oil

4 large eggs, lightly beaten

Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet

ingredients in another bowl.  Stir them together 

until everything is moistened leaving a few lumps.

Cinnamon Filling

1 C. butter, melted

1 1/2 C. brown sugar, packed

 2 T. ground cinnamon

Mix the three ingredients together.  Place

in a disposable piping bag and snip the end

off or put in a Ziploc bag and snip the corner off.

(This will keep in the fridge so you can make them again

and again and again!)

Heat your griddle to 325 degrees.  You don't want

these too cook too quickly.  Make desired size

pancake on greased griddle and then using the

piping bag and starting at the center of the

pancake, create a cinnamon swirl.  Wait until

the pancake has lots of bubble before you try 

to turn it.  Yo will find that when you turn it

the cinnamon swirl will melt.  If you have your

griddle too hot, it will burn the cinnamon, so I

suggest 325.

  The cinnamon kind of melts out

and creates the craters which then fill perfectly

with the cream cheese glaze.

Cream Cheese Glaze

1/2 C. butter

4 oz. cream cheese

1 1/2 C. powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

In a microwave safe bowl melt the

butter and cream cheese and then stir

together.  Whisk in the powdered sugar and

vanilla.  Add a little milk if needed to make

it a glaze consistency.

Printable Recipe

This was the feature on our Sunday Brunch

last week.

I will be featuring it on

On The Menu Monday

and

Sweets For A Saturday