Breakfast

  

Cauldron Cakes

Disclaimer:  In the honor of not infringing on the copy rights of the book, I will not be posting images of the recipe, the ingredients or the steps to make the dishes.  I would highly suggest you purchase a copy of the book for yourself.  We got ours on Amazon after seeing a copy in JoAnn’s Fabric store (They have a magazine and book shelf and we first saw it there).  

    Harry sees them for the first time on the witch’s trolley on board the Hogwarts Express in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.  He generously shares with Ron, who finds his dry corned beef sandwich unappealing. 

    In reading the directions mom realized that these were Pancakes.  We thought we would start with Breakfast and this one we had all of the ingredients on hand.  Nothing special needed so it was the best one to start with. 

    We first stared out by gathering and measuring out all of the ingredients.  Some of them need to be at room temperature, so we had to wait an hour before cooking (We will prepare better the next time).

    We mixed together the wet and the dry, and then slowly mixed the two together to form the batter.  It will be lumpy and then it got fluffy.  There was a LOT of air in the batter.

    Once the griddle was hot, mom poured the batter on to it.  Now the recipe did call for an 8 inch skillet, we have one that is 12 inches and one that is 5, so we used the electric grille/griddle. Now the batter is really thin, so it spread out quickly.  Mom thought if we had used the skillet as it called for, they would have been a little thicker and fluffier.  We will try this again with the 5 inch skillet and see at a later date.  

    They browned up really well and even though we don’t have a spatula the size of them, they were rather flexible and didn’t rip all apart when mom went to flip them, I was worried about them just ripping apart.   It took a while to cook all of the batter, about 20 minutes, and in all that time the batter remained fluffy and light. 

    We figured there was enough butter in the recipe that they would not need any extra, so we just sprinkled them with powdered sugar as the recipe calls for, we really don’t like anything on our pancakes anyway.   

    At the first bite I realized why Harry liked these so much.  They are delicious!  Light, fluffy (though thin) with just a hint of lemon and sweet.  I was lost for a moment, closed my eyes and imagined that I was on the train heading to Hogwarts at the beginning of the school year with my classmates talking and laughing as we begin a new year.  I think I will ask to make these at the start of each quarter from now on as a way to welcome in new classes and new challenges.