During my trip to New Zealand, my sister in law and I went to a fantastic little coffee shop, Atlas in Ponsonby, where we had some out of this world pancakes. We had only dropped in to have a coffee on our shopping expedition of Kitchen shops around the Ponsonby area. However when we saw the menu, well what can I say – it was destiny. We had to give the pancakes a try.
They where Orange blossom pancakes served with seasonal fruit and natural yogurt. Talk about yummy!
When I returned to Australia, I had to try and recreate the recipe, so went on the search for orange blossom water which is not as easy as you would think to find. I ended up finding some at a little turkish cafe/supermarket.
I couldn’t resist opening the bottle to have a smell on the way home, I was expecting a beautiful orange zesty smell, boy oh boy was I wrong, the stuff stinks, I mean it smells really, really bad. It smells like old ladies – kind of musty. Oh well I thought I spent $5 on this bottle I may a well see what its like. All the way through making the pancakes I was still unsure if I should use it as I wanted beautiful tasting pancakes, but I persisted, and I’m glad I did as the taste is subtle but slightly there and gives the pancakes a great orange taste, that the orange juice alone doesn’t give. So when you make them you may think you can leave out the orange blossom water, but don’t!! Consider yourself warned, or you won’t get the full flavour.
Orange Blossom Pancakes
1 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup juice from an orange
1 egg
60g butter (melted)
1 teaspoon orange water
1/3 cup of sugar
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
Butter to fry
Place the buttermilk, orange juice, egg, butter and orange blossom water into a bowl and whisk to break up the egg and combine the ingredients. Sift in the flour and baking soda and whisk until all the ingredients have combined and you have a thickish batter.
Heat a non stick pan with a little butter, use a 1/3 measuring cup to scoop up the mixture and pour into the saucepan, when the mixture starts to form little bubbles, flip it over, when cooked remove from the heat. Add a little more butter and repeat.
Makes 7 large pancakes
I live in a small village in the Tuscan countryside, I do not know if you ever find orange blossom water 🙁
I must find this water because these pancakes are beautiful
Marta
That sounds so beautiful, the Tuscan countryside. We could always swap houses for a while and I’ll leave you lots of orange blossom water:) Thanks for stopping by my blog.
This looks absolutely amazing, Sophia!! The perfect breakfast pancake, if you ask me! (: Love it
Thanks Monica!
Love the orange flavoring in these pancakes.. They looks so fluffy and delicious!! Beautiful photo BTW!!!!!!
Hi Mr & Mrs P,
Yeah I had never had orange flavoured pancakes, I must say its a nice change.
Mmmm…I can’t even imagine how tasty they are!
They are very tasty. Thanks for stopping by Elen.
I am so glad you talked me into getting them at the cafe! Yours look even better, I’m going to have to make some!! 🙂 (or, you could come back to NZ and make them for me!)
LOL, I’m so glad you ordered them and I got to steal some. They were very delicious.
I used to go to Atlas a lot but haven’t been in a long time. Thanks for reminding me.
There are lots of flavours that are horrid when concentrated but great when rounded out in a dish to add an extra level of complexity and flavour. I guess orange blossom water is one of those things. Great stack of pancakes there. They look wonderfully fluffy!
Hi Bunny eats design,
Its a simple cafe but the food is truly wonderful, if the pancakes are to go by. You should re-visit it. Yeah orange blossom water is defiantly one of those flavours.
soph
Hi there! I wanted to let you know I featured you on Sugar Blossoms today. Stop by and check it out! http://sweetsugarblossoms.blogspot.com/2013/07/plenty-of-pancakes.html
Hi TJ,
I’ll pop over and check it out.
Sophia
It is very easy to make this food and its taste is just superb.. Thank you for the great recipe.
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