Recipe: How To Make Gin & Tonic Pancakes

Gin & Tonic Pancakes

While you could have a normal pancake Tuesday, why not make Gin & Tonic Pancakes instead?

Think of it as a kind of, two birds one stone food option. Dinner and a drink, in one.

This is the perfect recipe for an adult Pancake Tuesday.

Using fresh lemon and lime juice, gin, and a can of gin and tonic, this recipe couldn’t be easier to make.

What you need:

• Juice of 1 lemon and 1 lime
• Lemon and lime zest
• 3tbsp sugar
• 3tbsp gin
• 200g self raising flour
• 1 egg
• 250g gin and tonic can
• 50ml milk
• knob of butter

Optional:

• cocktail sticks and cocktail umbrellas

Method

1. To make the lemon and lime zest topping for this pancake recipe, peel the zest from a lemon and curl the zest around a cocktail stick. Repeat with the zest of a lime, also peeling it around a cocktail stick.
2. To make the gin and tonic syrup, Squeeze the lemon juice and lime juice into a pan and add the sugar and gin. Boil the mixture for three minutes.
3. To make the gin and tonic pancakes, place the flour in a bowl and add the egg and can of gin and tonic. Whisk the mixture until smooth.
4. Melt the butter in a pan and spoon the pancake mixture to make small pancakes.
5. Once cooked, stack the pancakes on a plate and then drizzle the gin and tonic syrup over the top.
6. Decorate with the lemon and lime zest, and a cocktail umbrella if you like, before serving.

Watch the process here:

The recipe comes from Good To Know. Check out the full thing here.

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