Orange Pancakes with Orange Spiced Syrup (Martha Stewart)

Originally was waffle, but I was in the mood of pancake so I made the recipe into pancakes instead. And no regret, it still yielded soft and fluffy ones :)


 
 
Recipe is from Martha Stewart
 
What you need:
(half recipe below with a little modification)
 
For the pancakes:
105g plain flour
1 tsp sugar
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 medium egg
60ml buttermilk
60ml freshly squeezed orange juice
40ml low fat plain yoghurt
40g unsalted butter, melted
2 oranges, peeled, seeded and separated into segments, each segment cut into thirds
 
For the orange spiced syrup:
30g packed light brown sugar
1 tsp cornstarch
1 pinch of ground cinnamon
1 pinch of salt
30ml light corn syrup
90ml freshly squeezed orange juice
a drop of vanilla extract
 
Method:
 
For the pancakes:
  1. In a medium bowl , whisk flour, sugar, baking powder and soda, salt
  2. In another bowl whisk egg, buttermilk, juice, yoghurt, butter. Stir mixture into dry ingredients. Fold in half the oranges
  3. Coat non stick pan with a little oil. Spoon a ladle of batter and cook til browned both sides
  4. Keep warm the pancakes til ready to serve
 
For the syrup:
  1. In a small saucepan, mix brown sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon and salt. Stir in corn syrup and orange juice. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally, cool til slightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Let cool and stir in vanilla
  2. This syrup can be refrigerated in airtight container for up to 2 weeks
 
Serve the warm pancakes with orange syrup and orange cuts
 
 
Soft and fluffy pancakes with sweet and yummy orange syrup. Every bite burst with orange flavour. There are orange pieces in the pancakes itself, plus the orange cuts and sauce. Yum!
 


This post is for Little Thumbs Up organised by Bake For Happy Kids, and My Little Favourite DIY, hosted by Ann of Anncoo Journal at this post

 



Also This post it for Cook Like A Star 2nd Anniversary Cooking Party March & April 2014 hosted by Zoe from Bake For Happy KidsMich from Piece of Cake and Joyce from Kitchen Flavours, where we can cook or bake like Donna Hay, Barefoot Contessa, Jamie Oliver, Masterchef, Martha Stewart, Delia Smith, Curtis Stone, Nigella Lawson, Ree Drummond and Bill Granger

 
 
Btw, you notice the orange I used was rather darker in color. I used cara cara oranges from US, easily found nowadays in supermarkets. This is the first time I tried this kind of oranges, and I was amazed at the first cut to find the flesh was rather reddish, very similar to grapefruit, darker in color, in fact
I googled for some info about this orange and true enough, cara cara orange is a red flesh orange. Taste wise, it's really juicy and sweet. Give it a try while it's still in season :)