The candlestick is celebrated this Sunday, February 2, 2025. Here are all our pancake recipes, from the easy and restless pancake dough to the pancakes of our regions, including the most classic pancake.
La Candleur is celebrated this Sunday, February 2, 2025. The gourmets were looking forward to this date to animate this beginning of February: nothing better than a good “pancake party” to treat morale in the heart of winter! Chocolate, sugar, honey, maple syrup, candied or fresh fruit, chestnut cream, jam, caramel, hazelnuts … The good smells of hot pancakes are already invading the kitchens and nostrils of gourmet. In terms of recipes, the possibilities are endless!
On the occasion of Candlemas, if some want to scrupulously respect the recipe for classic pancake, others like to add a little fantasy to tradition by opting for a regional or completely original version. And all the ingredients are allowed. Discover all our simple or original pancake recipes: easy pancake dough to pancake cake, including regional like the Farz Buen. To your stoves!
What recipe for simple pancake dough, the fastest to make?
Here is first of all below, a recipe for natural pancake dough very quick to make for the most in a hurry, then you will find below the classic pancake recipe, followed by more original recipes, from the suzette pancake to the pancake of Apples in the Sabayon of Calavados via the pancake cake, the Breton recipe from Farz Buen or Austrian of Kaiserschmarrn.
What is the classic pancake recipe for Candlemas?
Here are the ingredients for 4 people: 250 grams of flour, 0.5 liters of milk, 50 grams of melted butter, 4 eggs, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 pinch of salt.
- Preparation : First, put flour in a bowl. Then add sugar, eggs and melted butter. Then beat everything, gradually pouring milk: you will get a fluid and smooth paste. It is then advisable to let rest The dough at room temperature for one to two hours. An ultra-important phase, which should be avoided.
- Cooking : After the preparation and the waiting time, you can pour the dough over a heated pan. Do not forget to spread oil on the pan between each pancake using a paper towel. Without that, it will be impossible to Sauté it, as required by the tradition of Candlemas. To make it fly well, take off there first slightly with a spatula, then shake the pan, to make sure that the pancake is well taken off. Afterwards, A dry and firm wrist should give the expected result!
- Trim : Depending on the tastes, the accompaniment varies: sugar, chocolate, salted butter, honey, caramel, jam, brown cream, lemon, fruit … In short, the pancakes are infinitely available.
What recipes for regional pancakes?
- There Crêpe Suzette is a traditional recipe for flambé pancake for purists. She mixes a zest of an orange, butter, pieces of sugar, orange juice with a cup of Grand Marnier. With the rest of Grand Marnier, it is tradition to flambé the pancakes in front of the amazed guests. Discover the recipe for Crêpe at Grand Marnier or the simple recipe for Crêpe Suzette.
- In Brittany, the Farz Buen is a very thick pancake dough, which mixes in the pan as if they were scrambled eggs, with a lot of butter and sugar. The mixture is reduced to small golden and slightly toasted pieces using the spatula. We decorate everything with jam or cocoa powder. The recipe.
- Austrian specialty, the Kaiserschmarrn is the favorite pancake recipe from François-Joseph II and the Empress Sissi, a real delight intended for those who are used to missing their pancakes! It is a pancake dough lightened by the whites mounted in snow, which is cut into large irregular pieces, very easy to make. Endless with raisins soaked or not in rum, it can be accompanied by plum or quetsche compote. Discover the recipe.
- THE pancake cake is the result of a dozen pancakes stacked in multiple stages. Then, it’s up to you to enhance it with the ingredients you prefer. The pancake cake can be with dark chocolate, nutella, lemon cream, strawberry coulis, caramel, and even in its salty version, hard eggs and tuna, salmon or crab/avocado! Discover All the variations of the recipe for the pancake cake.
- Looking for even more original pancakes? Sushi of sweet pancakes, pancakes in the colors of the rainbow, small banana pancakes, gluten-free lace pancakes, chaplain or pancake lollipops, lemon and coconut pancakes, samosas pancakes, intense chocolate pancakes, Cornet pancakes, bouquet of pancake roses … Our 47 most original pancake recipes.