Simple Simon Pikelets

If you’ve been following along for long, you’d know our kids adore pancakes. When they ask me to make them, I always pimp them up with some nutrition boosters, but when they make pancakes themselves (which is more often than you’d guess!), they make these Simple Simon Pancakes.

Sophia (10) is changing schools this year, so we had a little farewell shindig at our place with her friends. I found myself with a bunch of kids to feed, so thought pikelets would go down a treat. I experimented with these. The friends devoured them and asked me to give the recipe to their mums! These pikelets have now been declared official staples in our home. Which says a lot, considering our kids are self-proclaimed pancake connoisseurs

Organic spelt flour + baking powder is great easy swap out for self-raising wheat flour, not only because it’s high in nutrients like iron, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, selenium, niacin, thiamin, vitamin B6, and folic acid but also because:

• You’re ditching the glyphosate that’s in conventional wheat flour.
• Spelt flour is what’s called an ‘ancient grain’ and hasn’t been tampered with like the genetically modified modern wheat that floods our food supply today. That wheat is barely recognisable from the wheat we had even 100 years ago.
• Many people find the gluten in spelt flour much easier to tolerate digestively, and don’t react to it the same way they do wheat flour.
• Apart from being a very functional and versatile variety of wheat, spelt is also packed with nutrients that many other kinds of flour do not contain. It is high in carbohydrates, as you would expect, but the very high levels of protein (21% of the daily recommended intake) and dietary fibre (30% in a single serving!) are very impressive.
• If you opt for an aluminum-free baking powder instead of self-raising flour, you’re also avoiding four different sets of additive numbers, as well as a small dose of aluminium. That’s a whole blog in itself

A small and imperceptible change like switching this one thing, yields big results to our health over time.

Enjoy these when you want a simple pikelet that impresses the masses.

Simple Simon Spelt Pancakes

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Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes minutes

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Servings: 10 pikelets

Ingredients

• 1 cup white spelt flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons coconut sugar
• 1 egg
• ¾ cup milk of choice

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• Mix all 3 dry ingredients together
• Heat up your pan so it’s ready to go*. Melt a little coconut oil or butter on it.
• Add egg and milk to your dry ingredients and whisk together.
• I used my 1/4 cup measuring cup to add around 1/8 cup batter around my big pan. I could fit about 7 pikelets in the pan at a time.
• When golden brown on one side, flip it over. It won’t need long on the second side.
• Remove from the heat and repeat!

Notes

Toppings:

Pikelets just scream jam and cream, right? If you’re wanting to mix it up, try peanut butter and banana, or some good quality yoghurt with raw honey.

Jam: Homemade jam is ridiculously easy to make. Whack some frozen or fresh berries in a saucepan, add a little maple syrup and chia seeds and simmer away for around 5 mins. Use your potato masher (or a fork) and you’re ready! My kids prefer this jam to store-bought jam.

Cream: The kids like to whip cream. I like to use yoghurt. If you’re avoiding dairy, try whipping cooled coconut cream!

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Course Appetizer, Breakfast, Dessert, School Lunches, Snack, Special Occasion - Kids Party

Keyword eggs, spelt flour

Allergy FODMAP Friendly, Legume Free, Nightshade Free, Nut Free, Peanut Free, Refined Sugar Free, Salt Free, Sesame Free, Soy Free

Value Halal, Kosher, Vegetarian

Author: Laini Oldfield

Notes:

1. Want more pancake inspo? Check out the Pancake Recipe Collection.

2. Feel free to add some boosters. I’ve listed some in the Simple Simon Pancake recipe.

3. Try with half wholemeal spelt flour! I was feeding kids who weren’t accustomed to whole foods, so I played it safe with the white flour;)

4. You can use any milk you like – cows, coconut, almond, yoghurt mixed with water…. whatever floats your boat.

5. *You want your pan warm-hot before your pancake batter goes in. Be careful not to have the heat up too high. I keep my gas flame real low.

6. My kids love dropping in some good quality chocolate chips into the batter before cooking. Soooo good!