Puffed Apple Pancake

Credit: Arroyo Village Inn, Arroyo Grande, CA


Ingredients

1 cup whole milk
4 large eggs
3 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract or paste
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
4 tbsp (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
2 apples
3 tbsp brown sugar
raisins, optional


Directions

Preheat oven to 425. Whisk milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, salt, and cinnamon in large bowl until well blended. Add flour and whisk until batter is smooth.

Place butter in 9x13 glass baking dish and place in oven until butter melts, about 5 minutes.

Remove dish from oven. Place apple slices in overlapping rows atop melted butter in baking dish. Return to oven and bake until apples begin to soften slightly and butter is bubbling, about 10 minutes.

Pour batter over apples in dish and sprinkle with brown sugar and raisins, if using. Bake until pancake is puffed and brown, about 20 minutes. Serve.

Notes

So easy, and made mostly with pantry ingredients. You can make 0.5x the recipe in an 8x8 dish…we’ve been known to make 1.5x in an 11x17 dish…