We write a word or phrase at the top of each recipe after we make it to help us remember how much we did or didn’t enjoy it. Above this one reads, “Perfection. Gorgeous, and perfect texture.” So, it’s a good’n. If you haven’t had the pleasure of eating a Dutch Baby before, they are a fantastic, large, fantastic, fluffy, fantastic sort of pancake, presumably deriving from a German pancake but introduced at a cafe in Seattle. This simple batter gets blended in a blender and poured over a layer of thinly sliced pear in a cast-iron skillet (don’t fudge this part, now – use the skillet, it is magical). What results is a… well, a masterpiece that is raised to crunchy peaks on the sides and flat and dense in the middle. The pear floats to the top and it’s really just an impressive thing to serve someone, all beautiful and dusted with cinnamon and powdered sugar. Don’t forget a dollop of hand-whipped cream.
Have your kids help you lay the pear slices on the bottom of the skillet and dump batter ingredients into the blender. Let them dust with powdered sugar and cinnamon.
Pears have a lot of a phytonutrient called chlorogenic acid that helps your liver stay healthy.
Since the Dutch Baby is inspired by a German pancake, let’s learn a few facts about Germany and it’s people:
- Around 25% of us in the U.S. claim some German ancestry.
- Germany is just covered in animal parks (like little zoos) and theme parks (Mom can attest to that – she lived there for 6 years). Germans looooove spending time having fun in the outdoors.
- German athletes have won more Olympic medals than any other country in the world.
From: Dutch Baby
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- ⅔ cup flour
- ½ stick melted butter, plus more for the skillet
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- a little vanilla
- 1 sliced pear
- cinnamon and confectioners' sugar, for dusting
- Mix the eggs, milk, flour, ½ stick melted butter, sugar and a little vanilla in a blender.
- Melt some butter in a cast-iron skillet.
- Add the pear, then the batter.
- Bake at 375 degrees F, 35 minutes.
- Dust with cinnamon and confectioners' sugar.
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