German Apple Pancakes

Again, thanks to Bountiful Baskets, I've had had more than enough apples around. This morning Hilary and I woke up to a foot of snow, and I wanted to make something special for breakfast. I found this recipe online. I choose it because I don't have an oven-proof skillet, which most German pancake recipes call for; what I do have is a cake tin. I halved the recipe because I only have one cake tin, and also because there would only be two of us eating anyway.

First: slice the apples and cover them in the lemon juice, brown sugar, and cinnamon mixture. I also added pinches of ground cloves and ground allspice to mine. Set this aside. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees and put the cake tin in the oven to heat.

Now you want to mix up the batter, including the milk, eggs, flour, and salt.

Mix it until frothy (top will be covered in bubbles and will continue to bubble). It may be a minute or two. Set this aside while you get your pan ready.

In your preheated cake tin (the oven should now be preheated to 400), add 1/4 cup butter and place back in oven until it's completely melted.

(Melted butter. Yes, you really will need this much.)

Once the butter is melted, place the sliced, spiced apples in the pan. In halving the recipe, I should have used one apple, but I still used two apples. You can use however many apples you like.

Cover the apples with the batter that's been sitting aside. Place back in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes. I baked mine for about 25.

It turned out beautifully! Remember that German pancakes are still moist and spongy in the middle when fully baked. If you insert a knife and it comes out clean, it's finished, even if it still looks undone.

I served mine with this caramel sauce, which I love. It tasted wonderful together. If you don't want something too sweet, simply sprinkle the pancake with powdered sugar and serve.

I like this recipe because it didn't have a lot of ingredients, or a lot of them. It was easy to whip up and would also be easy to make in bulk. The most expensive ingredient would probably be the apples, if you had to buy them in bulk, and that's saying something.

Loved it!