You know there are more amazing tasty homemade pancake varieties then just about anything on the planet so I thought let's just condense this down to the two very best in the breakfast category, so like i said before we're gonna talk about two of the best awesome (wow) pancakes that being the all-american favorite.
Simply pancake that we all know and love fluffy get them piled and stacked as high as the eye can see and then the fluffy souffle Japanese pancakes that we've all seen on the internet, they've taken the internet by storm and i thought you know what let's make this very simple we're gonna make both of them we're gonna make the fluffiest easiest version of the all-american, and then we're gonna make a classic delicious japanese souffle one then we're gonna decide not only which is better, but if it's even worth it to make the souffle so with all that said let's do this shall we so aside from the fact that we're gonna be ignoring crepes in this video, please do yourself a favor and buy the best maple syrup that money can buy or well as far as your dollar can stretch that is now if you want to take it a step further you could smoke your maple syrup and no i'm not talking about the kind that would send you to the hospital, i'm talking pour your maple syrup into a bowl cover it with plastic wrap and then attach a smoke gun this is the breville version, i'll have a link in the description no this is not sponsored I just happen to use it, i filled this one up with hickory smoke pulled its dangly thing out and bing bang boom you have, the sweet nectar of the tree gods that also taste like a campfire.
American Style Pancake
So for our first fantastic pancake we'll make a traditional all-american flapjack look this recipes ingredients is really easy in a small bowl whisk together one egg and one and a half cups or 386 grams of whole fresh warm milk, once those are thoroughly combined in a separate bowl add in two cups or 300 grams of all-purpose flour a quarter cup or 62 grams of granulated sugar one teaspoon or four grams of fine sea salt a quarter teaspoon or one gram of baking soda and one tablespoon or 12 grams of baking powder, once that's combined mix your flour mix with the milky egg stuff and as you're mixing that together whisk in two tablespoons or 21 grams of melted unsalted butter (buttermilk maybe) and continue whisking until everything is combined and smooth it's okay if there's a couple lumps here and there now let that batter rest for about five minutes, then preheat yourself a non-stick skillet over medium heat hit it with some spray oil and or a couple tablespoons of unsalted butter, and once that pan is nice and hot spoon (teaspoons) in quarter cup dollops of your batter i would say like three to four are good for a ten inch skillet and cook for two to three minutes or until golden brown on the bottom, i usually go by firmness rather than bubbles showing up at the top of my pancake oftentimes that tends to lead to you know overcooking, but i'll judge your dry ass pancakes respectfully now flip your pancakes and cook an additional one to three minutes or till beautiful golden brown and bouncy but not overly firm place, those lovelies on the side and repeat with the rest of your batter and would you look at that those look like some flippin pancakes or flapjacks or whatever you want to call them doesn't matter to me now, obviously you'll top that with butter drizzle it with some maple syrup or smoked maple syrup if you're truly a culinary hypebeast like me and enjoy.
Japanese Pancake
But before we do that let's talk about our competitor here the japanese pancake these are really easy to mess up, so please pay extra special attention, here papa's watching start off with two whole eggs crack those bad boys and separate them out into two medium bowls, one for the yolks and one with the whites to the two yolks you're gonna add one tablespoon or 14 grams of whole milk one teaspoon or three grams of vanilla extract, whisk all that together until completely smooth then you'll sift in a quarter cup or 30 grams of cake flour three quarters of a teaspoon or three grams of baking powder and half a teaspoon or one gram of fine sea salt make sure to sift that out nicely, and whisk all that together until thoroughly combined and place it aside separately begin beating your egg whites with electric beaters and once they reach a soft peak, begin slowly adding two and a half tablespoons or 35 grams of granulated sugar a little bit at a time until all of it is added keep on whipping until you get nice stiff peaks be careful not to overbeat this you want to be nice and glossy like this not a separated chunky, mess now fold in a quarter of your meringue into the yolk mixture till thoroughly incorporated then the next fourth and fold again till uh incorporated and repeat two more times until all of your meringue is added, and you have a lovely fluffy mixture like this don't you beat out that air okay that sounds weird, carefully transfer that mixture to a piping bag with a round tip attachment or just a plastic bag with the corner cut out and heat yourself a non-stick medium skillet over low heat until nice and hot, spray that with some cooking oil and wipe off the excess now pipe two evenly sized mounds only using half of your mixture to do so pipe those evenly otherwise they'll cave in and i'll have to come in and yell at you for a little bit some people like that, so i don't know maybe do it on purpose splash in a spoonful of water in the blank areas of the pan immediately cover with a lid and let that steam and cook for five minutes, then lift the lid and you'll notice it might have spread a little that's okay pipe another large anonymous mound that is evenly shaped onto both of your pancakes, add another spoonful of water cover and cook for an additional three to four minutes, take the lid off and now your moment of truth you're gonna flip these but wait the trick to flipping this is not a traditional one you have to sort of coax it into rolling over, onto the other side like this you have delicate bb souffles here keep daddy's fingies nice and relaxed when you do this now, add another spoonful of water cover with the lid and cook for three to four more minutes, you may have to just time a little bit overcooking your undercooking will mean a totally sunken souffle and that's depressing now finally,
take your pancakes out of your pan plop them onto a plate but gently top with whipped cream some nice butter and a generous dusting of powdered sugar and screw it maybe some more smoked maple syrup too for the flex let's taste test and see who the real winner is.
Okay so we have two pancakes that are relatively well simple none of that sort of like nutella stuffed cookie butter pounded their pancakes for a normal ready pancake you just throw together put in the pan these are in my opinion the perfect pancake the souffle pancakes after all that work really better come through they're pretty good, i know i'm gonna catch flack for this one but these souffle pancakes are overrated they're good and they have like a nice airiness they almost like melt in your mouth which is really cool but not worth the effort so at the end of the day this is going to be the only route that you want to go unless you want to spend time trying a new fun project you want to have it then you might as well just make some regular pancakes and smoke your maple syrup do you want to know what else is plump fluffy and covered in sticky stuff b-roll.
All right guys and that is it so we made Japanese pancakes and we made regular all-American flapjack pancakes whatever you want to call them at the end of the day I love how simplistic and easy a pancake is to me it's something that should be whisked together, tossed in a pan cooked flipped and eaten right then on the spot while it's still hot the Japanese pancake isn't really that hard but the thing is timing that cook right everybody's stovetop is so different, it took me five tries to get the pancake to stay tall and I realized that it has a lot to do with how you cook it if you overcook it's gonna fall down if you undercook, it it's gonna fall down absolutely you have to cook it perfectly in the world of like making breakfast for your friends and family it's just not realistic, it's very cool and they're beautiful and they're fluffy but let's just stick with a beautiful perfect pancake recipe that I have delivered to you.