Want to make them yourself??? All you need is pancake batter- they don't have pre made batter here, so I made mine from scratch... either will probably work- and red, blue, green, and yellow food coloring.
First, prepare the batter. (Use about two cups of instant batter) Turn the stovetop on to medium high heat.
Next, separate about 1/4 the batter in a small bowl. Now add food coloring until you make a very dark green. I found out the hard way that it is impossible to make a black color, so don't worry yourself over it. The color will be even darker after you cook.
Once you've created that, check to see if the pan is hot enough by flicking a drop of water on the pan. If it "dances" around on the pan, you're ready to cook.
Add butter to the pan, enough to coat. Take frying pan off heat. Then ladle 1/2 cup of normal, UNcolored batter onto frying pan, and tilt the pan so you create a circle.
Still off the heat, take a fork and dip it into the colored batter. Apply it to the normal batter, making a V shape that continually gets longer and larger as you go up. You may need more batter, which is fine. With the left over space on your pancake, just apply lines that are parallel to your V shape.
Reapply the pan to the heat, and cook like you would with any old pancake. ((For those of you who don't know, that means you wait until your pancake bubbles, and when the bubbles don't close up again, you flip the pancake with a spatula. Or use some mad skills, and don't use a spatula, just slide it, toss it up, and hope it doesn't hit the ceiling. ))
Repeat this for the rest of your pancakes, and violá! You have Zebra Pancakes! Enjoy with Nutella, syrup, whipped cream, or whatever you fancy. Hope you enjoy it :D I'm considering posting more crazy recipes like this one, and I'd love to hear any ideas you might have, so please comment! Thanks.
Good idea I'll have to try that sometime!!
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