Home made buttermilk maple pancake

250ml buttermilk or milk

1 egg

50ml maple syrup

250g gluten free/plain flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

10g butter, melted

Place all ingredients into a large bowl and then whisk together until smooth and lump free.

Use small ladle to measure out the pancakes into a hot and greased frying pan.

Serve:

Serve stacked up in the centre of a bowl with one of the following toppings!

Is your dad a 'sweet' or a 'savoury' kind of guy?

Sweet

Maple cream

Mix 50ml maple syrup with 50ml cream and stir. Serve poured over the pancake stack and then serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a rosette of whipped cream.

Sprinkle with 10g pistachio and cinnamon gravel and 5 raspberries

Peanut butter and banana with salted caramel

Mix 2 tablespoons of peanut butter to a paste with about 3 tablespoons heated cream so that it thins down.

Now slice up one banana and top the pancake stack with the peanut butter sauce, banana and finally the salted caramel.

For the salted caramel put 1 tablespoon brown sugar and 2 tablespoons butter into a saucepan and heat until the sugar dissolves.  Then heat until it's bubbling and fragrant and then sprinkle with a pinch or more of flake salt.

Savoury

Mushrooms, parmesan and chorizo

Haloumi, bacon and grilled tomato

Hard Core Carnivore Pancake:  serve crispy bacon, pancetta and prosciutto, sausages and chorizo on your pancake with a tomato chutney to give dad the ultimate Hard Core Carnivore pancake!