Honeycomb Cream Pancakes

Name: Honeycomb Cream Pancakes
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 60 ml golden syrup; 100 g castor sugar; 280 g cake flour, sifted; 5 ml bicarbonate of soda; 5 ml vanilla extract; 500 ml cream; 60 ml icing sugar; 2 large eggs; 30 ml sunflower oil; 625 ml milk; 125 ml water

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Simply Delicious

By Zola Nene

Published 2016

About

I don’t know anyone who wasn’t excited the first time they learnt how to make honeycomb. Watching the sugar expand and grow as you stir in the bicarb is still thrilling, no matter how many times you’ve done it before.

Ingredients

For the honeycomb

100 g castor sugar
60 ml golden syrup
5

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

To make the honeycomb, line a baking tray with baking paper or greased foil.
Place the sugar and syrup in a saucepan and stir to mix. Do not stir it again, but allow it to gently melt over low heat.
Once dissolved, bring it to a simmer for about 3 minutes or until it turns the colour of maple syrup, then remove from the heat, whisk in the bicarbonate