Pannu Kakku (Finnish Oven Pancake)

LiisaN's Note:

My Mom used to make this as a special breakfast treat when we had company or for holidays. It is a baked pancake/custard. I like it with syrup and sausages served on the side. The Finns would often serve with jam or fruit preserves and of course coffee.

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 4 cups milk
• 4 eggs
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 4 tablespoons melted butter
• powdered sugar

Directions:

1. Beat eggs.
2. Add milk, sugar, salt, vanilla and flour.
3. Mix well.
4. Add melted butter and mix until blended.
5. This will be a thin batter.
6. Pour into a greased 9x13 pan.
7. Bake at 400 degrees for approx.
8. 40 minutes- until custard is set and top is nicely browned.
9. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.
10. Serve with warmed syrup or jam.

Reviews

[Chef #202990]

Fabulous! My hubby loved it, and it even pleased the oh so discriminating tastes of my 8-yr-old.

[annlouise]

I've made this a couple times, but it has been awhile. I vaguely remembered one batch being not-quite-enough for my 6 voracious breakfast eaters. So I attempted to 1 1/2x the batch, but ended up doubling, because I accidentally put in too much sugar. Well, I used sucanat instead of sugar, which gave this the most carmelly, delicious touch. I thought my 11x15 glass pan would suffice, but it "grew" over the sides, so next time I will just use 2 9x13 pans. The mess (my fault, not a part of the recipe, lol) and wait were worth it. We did not use anything extra, because the custard was sweet enough. I tried a bit of sour cream because ours turned out so sweet, and that was good too, though plain was perfection. I highly recommend trying sucanat (aka rapadura). While this was baking, we checked the weather in Finland, and found they are quite a bit warmer than we are today (we had snow yesterday here in Alberta), even though they are much further north!

[Nado2003]

I made this for my daughter's Finnish country report today. Instead of adding melted butter to the mix, I melted it in the pan in the oven and poured the mix into it and baked it for 45 minutes because of the other reviews regarding runniness. It came out perfect. I did not get to taste it until after class so it was not hot. However, even cold it was yummy. I served with lemon wedges & powdered sugar, or strawberry jam, or maple syrup. I had mine with lemon & sugar - OH YUM! Thank you, this is going to be made more often at our house.