Cream Cheese Pancakes

There’s a place in South Africa’s “Klein Karoo” nestled at the foot of the Swartberg mountain range – Ladismith. It’s not a bustling metropolis, but rather a small farming community where the pace of life is at a dawdle. Several kilometres outside the town along a dirt road past ostriches and a few farmyards you’ll find Barn Own Farm. It’s out of this kitchen that today’s recipe originates. I had breakfast with Tori who was visiting Cape Town from the farm and when I asked her what she had for breakfast, she told we she had Cream Cheese Pancakes. I immediately asked her how! When I tried the recipe, the only thing I did differently was to add coconut flour.

Ingredients

Serves 2  =  R10, (excluding the coconut oil!)

  • Two eggs
  • Two tablespoons smooth creamed cottage cheese
  • Two tablespoons coconut flour
  • Two teaspoons coconut oil for frying

Ingredients for Banting flapjacks

Method (Method without pictures is at the bottom of the page)

Break the eggs into a bowl and whisk them lightly.

Two open eggs in a bowl

Add the cottage cheese…

Cream cheese with eggs

And the coconut flour. Beat it in until dissolved.

Coconut flour

Once well blended, with no lumps, melt the coconut oil in a pan and drop tablespoons of batter into it…

Drops of batter in a panThey start to cook as usual pancakes do, with a few bubbles and the sides beginning to draw in. Once you see that happen, you can turn them and continue to add tablespoons of batter as more space becomes available…

Flapjacks cookingJust keep going until all the batter is used up…

Flapjacks in the panAnd you are left with a plateful…altogether you can get about 12.

Cream cheese flapjacksEat buttered and with grated cheese as a lovely accompaniment to breakfast or as a mid-morning or afternoon snack. Great for entertaining. They are quick and easy to make.

Flapjacks with butter and cheeseYou can multiply the ingredients up to make traditional big pancakes and serve with cinnamon and lemon or stuffed with berries and eat with whipped cream!

Lots of options! Talking of options, I was spoiled for choice in which Proverb to use. I kept typing one up and then reading another! I settled in the end, for this one…

Proverbs 27:2

“Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.”

Keep the smile going and stay humble!

God bless you!

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

Method, without pictures.

  • Break the eggs into a bowl and whisk them lightly.
    Add the cottage cheese.
    Beat it in until dissolved.
    Add the coconut flour.
    Once well blended, with no lumps, melt the coconut oil in a pan and drop tablespoons of batter into it
    They start to cook as usual pancakes do, with a few bubbles and the sides beginning to draw in. Once you see that happen, you can turn them and continue to add tablespoons of batter as more space becomes available.
    And you are left with a plateful…altogether you can get about 12.

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