Pikelets

Pikelets! Silver dollar pancakes. Drop scones. Mini hotcakes. Whatever you cognize these as, these babe fluffy pancakes are perfectly irresistible! Serve for meal oregon day beverage with copious amounts of jam and cream.

PIKELETS – an Aussie favourite!

When I archetypal shared this look successful 2016, I called pikelets an Aussie favourite and expressed pity for anyone who hadn’t discovered their greatness.

Turns out, I was a spot clueless – readers rapidly pointed retired that pikelets beryllium each implicit the world, conscionable nether antithetic names: driblet scones, Scotch pancakes, metallic dollar pancakes, mini hotcakes.

Oops! 😅 Consider maine educated!

But, for those of you caller to pikelets, they are conscionable mini pancakes. Fun meal oregon anytime snack, and large for taking places (think: bureau greeting tea) – speedy to make, casual to transport, reheat perfectly and fantabulous for gatherings due to the fact that you tin devour them with your hands.

I often deliberation of them arsenic the easier scone!

Ingredients successful pikelets

Here’s what you request to marque pikelets. The batter is the aforesaid arsenic pancakes but pikelets person 1 large vantage – you tin marque aggregate successful the cookware astatine the aforesaid time. Anybody other consciousness show anxiousness flipping pancakes 1 astatine a clip with a array afloat of hangry people??

• Plain flour / all-purpose flour – tin beryllium substituted with aforesaid raising flour though it won’t beryllium rather arsenic fluffy, arsenic is the lawsuit with thing made with aforesaid raising flour vs plain flour + baking powder.

• Baking pulverization – this is what makes the pikelets fluffy. If yours has been hiding unused successful the pantry for galore months, check it’s inactive active.

• Sugar – I lone usage a tiny amount, conscionable 2 tablespoons, due to the fact that the jam adds sweetness.

• Milk – The liquid to bladed the batter. Full abdominous cattle beverage makes softer pikelets but debased abdominous / nary abdominous oregon adjacent non-dairy beverage works good too.

• Vanilla – For flavour. I usage vanilla extract which has much axenic vanilla flavour than imitation essence.

• Egg – Use a ample egg, 50-55g/2oz each, sold successful cartons labelled “large eggs” (600 – 660g for a dozen).

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How to marque pikelets

Here’s however to marque pikelets. If you tin navigator without being interrupted, you’ll person them connected the array successful 20 minutes flat!

1. Whisk dry ingredients successful a vessel (flour, baking powder, pinch of salt).

2. Add bedewed – Make a good successful the centre. Add the egg, beverage and vanilla past whisk until combined and astir lump free. The batter should beryllium reasonably heavy but pourable, similar the consistency of heavy honey.

   If needed, set the consistency with beverage (if excessively thick) oregon flour (if excessively thin).

3. Cook – Melt conscionable 1 spoon of food successful a non instrumentality cookware implicit mean precocious vigor (or mean ,if your stove is strong). Then hitch astir of it disconnected with a insubstantial towel (too overmuch food = precise splotchy surface, not a large deal, conscionable a ocular thing).

   Pour astir 1 1/2 tbsp batter into the cookware and coax it into a circle. An crystal pick scoop with a lever volition beryllium your person here.

4. Bubbles – Cook for 1 1/2 minutes until bubbles emergence to the aboveground and astatine slightest 4 of them pop. This indicates the pikelets are acceptable for flipping. If they are browning excessively rapidly connected the underside earlier determination are bubbles connected the surface, little the heat.

   PRO TIP: If your batter is connected the heavy side, the bubbles mightiness not pop. Just instrumentality a peek connected the underside and if golden, flip!

5. Flip with a flick of the wrist, with confidence! Then navigator the different broadside for 1 infinitesimal oregon until golden, past region from the pan.

6. Pile onto a sheet with jam and pick past serve!

Pikelets are truthful fashionable successful Australia, they are really sold astatine supermarkets. It baffles maine wherefore anyone would ever bargain them! I tried them erstwhile retired of curiosity and they really sensation artificial. They person a weird fake vanilla-egg flavour.

But putting that, they outgo a fewer dollars for a battalion of 6 oregon so, whereas it would outgo possibly $1.50 to marque a twelve astatine home, with the added bonus that they sensation truthful overmuch better. And they are truthful accelerated to make, positive easier to grip than pancakes due to the fact that they’re tiny truthful they’re easier to flip without smearing batter everyplace oregon missing the cookware wholly (yep, it’s happened!).

So, adjacent clip you’re aft a speedy snack for a hoard of bare kids oregon your friends are dropping by unexpectedly, oregon you’re known arsenic the culinary queen (or king) astatine enactment but don’t person the clip to marque a caller batch of scones for the fundraiser greeting beverage connected Monday morning, marque pikelets!  – Nagi x

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Watch however to marque it

And a amusive small outtakes video from this week, erstwhile JB made pikelets for the archetypal clip – how bash you pronounce “pikelets”!?

Originally published successful June 2016, earlier I taught myself to marque look videos. Republished successful 2025 with said look video, positive sparkling caller photos, refreshed chatter and of people a 2025 Life of Dozer update (spoiler: nary change, really, conscionable older!).

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Life of Dozer

Dozer 2016. 3 years old, from the archetypal pikelets post. Trained not to interaction that pikelet until helium gets the command:

Dozer 2025, astir 13 years old. Just can’t spot the pick arsenic overmuch due to the fact that his look is whiter!

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