Fluffy date pancakes

If you're feeling like getting creative with your brunch at home, have a go at recreating our fluffy Date Pancakes! Here's the recipe from our chef:

Ingredients:

• 5 x tsp salt
• 5 x tsp baking powder
• 625g x plain flour
• 6 x tbsp caster sugar
• 5 x whole eggs
• 5 x tsp vanilla paste
• 675ml x whole milk
• 40g x melted butter
• 200g x softened dates (half for the pancakes and half for the puree)

For the toffee sauce:

• 200g x dark brown sugar
• 200g x heavy double cream
• 100g x unsalted butter

Method:

Dates:

• Boil the dry dates in water until soft but still holding their shape, roughly 10 minutes.
• Strain the dates keeping the liquid for the date puree
• Once cool, mix your desired number of soft dates into the pancake batter

Batter:

• Mix the dry ingredients together, then add milk and whisk until smooth
• Add eggs and whisk again
• Lastly, add the melted butter

Toffee sauce:

• Add the dark brown sugar, heavy double cream and unsalted butter into a saucepan and bring to boil stirring constantly
• Boil until smooth with no grains of sugar visible
• Once the sauce is ready and still warm, stir in some water
• This should end up being a beige-cream colour

Date puree:

• Add the remaining dates which were boiled off into a food processor and blitz adding the liquid from the dates little by little until your desired consistency (this step is easier when still warm)
• The puree will thicken up when cooled down

Enjoy!