Vanilla Bean Pikelets

Yesterday I was sitting on the lounge around lunch time and suddenly had a craving for pikelets. Yes it was lunch time and I should have been making something more substantial, but I left that to Nathan and decided to whip up a batch of pikelets. But I had a problem, to my horror I had no recipe for pikelets in any of my recipe books. I have made them a million times before but probably when I was in high school and I would have just used mum's recipe. So I did a quick search around on the net and found a recipe and adapted it to create Vanilla Bean Pikelets. These are delicious. The best thing about them is they are so quick and easy to make. I went from having a craving, searching for a recipe, cooking the pikelets to eating them in the space of about 20mins. 

Ingredients ~

• 1 cup self raising flour
• 1 tbsp caster sugar
• pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla bean paste
• butter or cooking spray for the pan

To Cook ~

1. Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl (preferably one with a pouring lip to make it easier to get the mix into the pan later on). Add the caster sugar and salt and stir to combine. 
2. Make a well in the centre and add the egg, milk and vanilla. Whisk the wet ingredients until combined and then whisk in all the dry ingredients. 
3. Heat a large frypan to medium heat and grease either with a small amount of butter or cooking spray (they cook best when it is very lightly greased).
4. Pour the mix in to make pikelets the size that you want. Cook until bubbles form on the surface (30-40 seconds) and then flip and cook for another 30-40 seconds. Repeat with mixture until you run out :)
5. Serve with your choice of topping, I can recommend: butter, jam, honey or golden syrup.

Notes ~

• If your pikelets look a bit albino you can always flip them again to brown them up a bit.
• If you want them all to be the same size about 2 tbsp of mix makes a good size. But I think having oddly shaped ones and big and small ones is half the fun :)