Pimp That Snack

Mega Pancakes

by Paul Cunningham 8 photos Rated 30% 45 votes when voting closed

This was a surprisingly quick to make snack, that comes in at over 2000cals. I wanted a pancake breakfast with as much bacon in it as possible. because as we all know, it’s all about the bacon.

Ingredients (prices approximate)

4 extra large pancakes (1.99)
3 large eggs (£1)
3 tablespoons of Ghee for frying (30p?)
cup full of mixed berries (50p?)
1 banana (30p?)
12 pack of bacon (£2.25)
60ml of extra thick double cream (£1.00)
50ml tblspoons syrup (30p)

total cost about £7.50

Ingredients laid out on a table: eggs, streaky bacon, syrup, yoghurt, frozen fruit and bananas

Started off by ‘george Foremanning’ 12 slices of bacon, (don’t worry, later i added them to a frying pan to get some of that lost fat back), (780.75 kcal)

Rashers of raw streaky bacon laid across an open electric health grill, empty pack below

Four small pancakes in a frying pan, berries in a saucepan and egg frying alongside

Next I fried the pancakes (684 kcal) in ghee (clarified butter) (100kcal) , heated the fruit (50 kcal) until it turned warm and juicy, and put together a fried banana (fried banana 150 kcal) omlette (3 large eggs. 263 kcal). I did this all at once, whilst taking phots, who said men can’t multitask!?

started to stack the food. and chucked the bacon into the pan to soak up the left over Ghee.

layer 1 Pancake
Layer 2 half the banana omlette, 4 bacon strips

Cooked egg layer topped with a bacon rasher on a plate, spatula beside it

layer 3 Pancake
layer 4 the rest of the banana omlette
layer 5 pankake
layer 6 eight bacon strips

Part-built stack of pancake, egg and bacon layers on a plate mid-assembly

Layer 7 pancake
topping 1 fruity goodness (high in vitamin C… so it’s good for you)
topping 2 dollop of double cream (extra thick of course… 268kcal)

The finished stack close up: pancake, egg and bacon layers under berry compote and ice cream

topping 3 good solid squeeze of syrup. (175kcal)

A fist held beside the towering finished stack on its plate for scale

And then I ate 2471kcal of pancake goodness!

Thumbs up beside the cleared plate, smeared pink with berry juice, knife and fork left on it

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