Baked Cranberry Apple Pancake

Janet did the dividing of the recipes as we went through them, so she gave me all the ones she didn't want. Luckily, there were a few pages of breakfast recipes stuck in the middle of my pile. We are major breakfast fans, so I picked this one out for me and Little Chub to enjoy this morning.

My one complaint about this recipe is that it makes quite a few dirty dishes. Ugh. Instead I just mixed the wet ingredients right into the dry ingredients. Aside from all the dirty dishes, I'd definitely make it again.

Baked Cranberry Apple Pancake
2 T. butter or margarine
1/4 c. dried cranberries
1 small apple, peeled, cored, and chopped
1/4 c. packed brown sugar
1 t. finely shredded orange peel (set aside)
3/4 c. all-purpose flour
4 t. granulated sugar
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. baking powder
1/8 t. salt
1 egg, beaten
1/2 c. buttermilk
4 t. cooking oil

Step 1: Place butter in a 9-in. pie plate. Place pie plate in oven while preheating to 350 F. Remove pie plate from oven when butter is just melted. Stir in dried cranberries and apple.

Step 2: Meanwhile, in a small saucepan stir together brown sugar and orange juice. Bring to boiling; reduce heat to medium. Boil gently, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Pour syrup mixture over fruit in pie plate.

Step 3: In a medium bowl stir together flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.  Make a well in center of four mixture; set aside. In a small bowl stir together egg, buttermilk, oil, and reserved orange peel. Add egg mixture all at once to flour mixture. Stir just until mixed. Pour batter evenly over fruit mixture in pie plate.

Step 4: Bake, uncovered, in a 350 F oven about 15 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched. Cool in pie plate on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Carefully invert pancake onto a serving platter. Cut in wedges and serve warm. Makes 8 serving.

-From Successful Farming Mid-February 2009

It isn't too bad for you either. The nutrition facts were included with the recipe. I'm sure you could mix in a little whole wheat flour and more dried cranberries. We actually didn't have an apple (they were more than what I wanted to pay for them at the store). I'm sure with the apples it would be even better.