Pikelets With Cinnamon Apple Slices

Delicious plain pikelets with a cinnamon applesauce. The sauce is a bit different because of the slicing of the apples. One or two pikelets makes a very nice dessert with a spoonful of vanilla ice cream! If using non hydrogenated margarine for the pancakes and sauce, such as Becel, use a little less because of the higher moisture content. Recipe altered from Apple & Pear Australia Ltd.

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

• Pikelets

• 1  cup self raising flour
• 2  tablespoons caster sugar or 2  tablespoons sugar
• 1  egg, lightly beaten
• 25  g margarine or 25  g unsalted butter, melted
• 2⁄3 cup skim milk

• Cinnamon apples

• 40  g margarine or 40  g butter
• 1⁄4 cup caster sugar or 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon
• 2  tablespoons lemon juice
• 2  braeburn apples, cut horizontally into 1/2 cm slices

Directions

1. Sift the flour into a mixing bowl and stir in the sugar; Mix together the egg, melted butter and milk; Whisk into the flour mixture.
2. Heat a greased frying pan and add 2 tablespoons of mixture into the pan for each pikelet; Cook for 2 minutes or until bubbles appear on the surface of the pikelet; Turn over and cook for another 30 seconds.
3. Remove from pan and keep warm; Repeat with pikelet mixture.
4. For the cinnamon apples: Melt the margarine in a small sauce pan. Add the sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice and stir until well combined; Add the slices of apple and simmer in the mixture until tender (about 4 minutes).
5. Serve slices of apple on top of the pikelets and drizzle the sauce over.
6. For a nice dessert, accompany with a spoonful of ice cream.