How to Make Carla’s Giant No Flip Blueberry Pancake: Bon Appétit Test #39

hey friends I hope your week is off to a
great start today I’m going to be trying
out Carla’s recipe for a giant no-flip
blueberry pancake so I love making
pancakes for brunch
especially when I have company but my
struggle has always been that even with
one of those big stovetop griddles I
can’t get pancakes for a crowd done all
at the same time so some people end up
with cold pancakes or we don’t get to
eat altogether so this recipe promises
to resolve that by creating one gigantic
pancake that everyone can share so I do
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always I’ll leave a link to the recipe
and ingredient quantities in the
description box below so I’m getting
started by portioning out the dry
ingredients and we’re going to be adding
the dry ingredients into the wet so you
don’t need to use a large bowl here
really just enough to accommodate your
ingredients and the whisking of them
together so once you’ve got that
homogeneous go ahead and set this aside
so we can work on the wet ingredients to
prep the wet ingredients you want to use
a large mixing bowl because this is
where we’re going to build the entire
batter so it’s pretty straightforward in
process is just a matter of portioning
out all of the different ingredients and
then adding the eggs and whisking until
they are light and aerated so about 30
seconds to a minute was really all I
needed you don’t want to see any streaks
of yolk or unincorporated white bits
once the mixture pale slightly you’re
ready to move on to the next step to
assemble the batter add half of the
buttermilk mixture you can just eyeball
it it doesn’t need to be perfect
along with half approximately of the dry
ingredients you want to mix this just
briefly to get the dry ingredients
incorporated you’re not trying to
overwork this at all so be gentle and
conservative here once that’s
incorporated measure out 2 tablespoons
of melted unsalted butter add the
remaining portion of your buttermilk and
the remaining portion of your dry
ingredients
and again just whisk briefly to get
everything incorporated if you over mix
you’re gonna have a tough pancake next
I’m adding my blueberries into the
batter and then gently folding it using
a spatula if you have a wooden spoon or
something like that you could use that
as well and with this the batter is
ready to go into our hot pan so while
you’re making the batter you also want
to have your pan preheating in the
background to a 10-inch skillet you want
to add the oil and the butter and you
want to wait for the butter to stop
sputtering and foaming I put both
ingredients into the pan at the same
time which means I had to bring them up
to temperature before the butter started
foaming and then I had to wait for the
foaming to stop if you add the oil to
the skillet first let that heat then add
in the butter little foam work quickly
and just get you to the end result much
faster so I would definitely recommend
do that instead of what I did here once
the butter has stopped foaming you add
in the batter and you can see mine goes
almost to the top of my 10-inch skillet
so ten inches is the minimum skillet
size you can use here don’t try to use
an 8 inch skillet you’re gonna have a
really bad time you just let this cook
over medium high heat don’t be afraid of
the heat you do want the exterior of the
pancake to get a burnished kind of brown
color medium high maybe a little bit
more on the high side and while this
cooks on the stove you want to just
shuffle the pan around to keep the
batter flowing and make sure that it’s
not sticking on the edges I let this
cook for a total of 6 minutes on the
stove top and I knew it was ready for
the oven when I saw a bunch of little
bubbles surfacing on the pancake batter
so I’m popping this into my preheated
oven and you’re gonna bake this until
the top of the pancake is set so you’ll
know it’s set because when you shake the
pan it’s not going to jiggle anymore and
if you press gently on it it should
spring back and feel firm so it’s kind
of like if you are making a cake those
are the signs that you’re looking for
all right so the giant pancake released
flawlessly from the pan and this is the
finished product here so I’ve got a nice
generous slice it looks super fluffy
here in the middle the blueberries sank
a little bit since this was the bottom
it does look like a little bit of
sinking happened but a really nice
golden
Styria here and I cannot wait to give
this a try
so let’s see nice and fluffy mmm oh my
gosh it’s so good wow this is really
interesting so it’s got that pancake
texture where it’s superlight it’s kind
of like little clouds inside it’s so so
fluffy which normally you don’t get
because pancakes are so thin so this
kind of deep dish style pancake I’m
super into and then this exterior that’s
really burnished and that’s not burnt
but it’s got a nice textured that’s a
little bit crispy not crunchy but it’s a
really great contrast because the inside
of the pancake is so tender so this is
outstanding
I’m super super happy with this so I am
really happy with this giant no-flip
blueberry pancake the flavor and
combination of textures are just
fantastic and it didn’t require any
special equipment and not a lot of
unique ingredients either so this is
something that I would definitely
recommend that you give a try then next
time you’re in the mood for pancakes so
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