To Sara (ie. German Pancakes Recipe)

My friend Sara mentioned that she wanted my German Pancake Recipe. Since she might stop by the blog before checking her e-mail, I'll put it there. You can use this recipe too. See - everybody wins.

German Pancakes Recipe from the Favorite Recipes of Apple Valley Cookbook

1 square margarine or butter

6 eggs

1 c. milk

1 c. flour

1/2 t. salt

Turn oven to 400 degrees. Put margarine in 9x13 inch dish and put in oven. While the margarine or butter is melting, mix the rest of the above ingredients in blender. Pour the batter over the melted butter and put back into the oven. Bake for about 20 minutes. Cut into squares. Serve hot with syrup or any favorite topping.

My spin on the recipe:

I always use butter (that's because I don't ever buy margarine) and never use more than half of the amount called for. I spray my pans well with cooking spray, melt my butter in the microwave and drizzle it around my pans. I say PANS because we found that we like a thinner pancake (especially since we use whole wheat flour and it doesn't puff up as much). I actually 1 1/2 the recipe and use two 9x13 pans.

Which means:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Put butter in glass measuring cup to melt in microwave. Place 9 eggs, 1 1/2 c. whole soft white wheat, 1 1/2 c. milk (we always have 1%), & 3/4 t. salt into blender. Drizzle butter into pans and rotate pans to stretch it as far as I can. Use same glass measuring cup to warm syrup by setting it on stoptop while pancakes bake. Divide batter between pans. Place both pans in oven for 20 minutes. If I don't spread the batter as thin, sometimes I'll let it cook about 22 minutes.

Serve to happy children & husband.