Oven baked pancakes with 18cm frying pan!

Pancake has been my favorite food since I was a child. Not everyday, but definitely I would like to bake sometimes around.

The story of Little Black Sambo, Guri and Gura, Gaburi-chan. When I was a kid, I liked the picture books that pancakes were appeared.

I can bake and eat pancakes as much as I want.

That’s one of the delightful things of being adult!

But baking pancakes takes time and efforts

Adjusting the heat of gas stove on frying pan all the time is time consuming and troublesome.

Often the recipe says, “put a hot frying pan over a wet cloth to cool down”, but if I do it, it would damage the cloth. The first pancake might be good, but when I bake the second and the third, I always end up burning.

Yoko Arimoto’s iron frying pan can be put into the oven as it is

Iron frying pan, which Yoko Arimoto, a Japanese famous cook book author supervised comes in four sizes from 18cm to 30 cm. The most advantage is that it can be put into the oven as it is by grace of its short handle.

18cm flying pan is quite small comparing to 26cm regular sized flying pan.

I wondered if it could be useful, but I decided to purchase when I read her book “My frying pan cuisine” BUNKA PUBLISHING BUREAU.

Even though it looks small, it actually has a large capacity. Egg dish using five eggs and four potatoes can be sufficiently contained.

Simply mix the ingredients, add salt and pepper and bake in the oven. It’s easy but it looks like a complicated dish. Above all, it’s delicious.

18cm frying pan is just the right size for one bag of pancake mix

The 18cm frying pan was unexpectedly convenient, but what I was most happy about was the pancake baking in the oven.

A box of pancake mix sold in Japan often has two bags that each contains 150g or 200g (for approximately 4 pancakes). 18cm flying pan is just enough size for one bag.

Let’s bake pancakes!

First of all, make dough with eggs and milk as written on the box of pancake mix.

Heat the frying pan and add a little salad oil. When it gets hot, put dough and turn off the heat.

Then put the frying pan into the preheated oven. Bake about 20 to 25 minutes at 170 degrees Celsius watching sometimes the condition. If the surface seems to burn, cover it with aluminum foil. Insert the toothpick and no dough comes on, then it’s done. While baking, no need to stand by all the time, you can do other things.

Soft and warm. Butter and maple syrup. Very delicious!

We can wrap and freeze left-over pancakes. So we can enjoy freshly baked pancakes anytime after reheating them with little grill inside of gas stoves (Japanese gas stoves often have it to cook fish) or toaster oven.

If there are several people, it may be fun to serve the whole pancake with a frying pan and cut by piece on the table.

I don’t think such an exciting opportunity would rarely happen to my home though!