Recipe: Delicious Japanese Soufflé Pancake

Japanese Soufflé Pancake. Grease round pancake molds and place onto the buttered griddle. Fill each mold halfway with batter. Flip each pancake and mold together.

They are almost soufflé-like in consistency thanks to folding egg whites into a batter that is cooked in a round mold. Japanese pancakes taste like a delicious buttermilk pancake, but not as dense. How do you make Japanese Souffle Pancakes? You can cook Japanese Soufflé Pancake using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Japanese Soufflé Pancake

1. You need 1 of Egg.
2. Prepare 15 g of Caster sugar.
3. You need 0.5 Tablespoon of Vegetable oil.
4. You need 0.5 teaspoon of Vanilla paste.
5. It's 0.5 Tablespoon of Milk.
6. Prepare 16 g of Plain flour.
7. You need 4 g of Corn flour.

Start by whisking together the dry ingredients (flour, powdered sugar, baking powder, and salt). In a second bowl mix together melted butter, milk, egg yolk, and vanilla or almond extract. I always use real dairy milk in my recipes - it's wholesome, delicious and really. The name soufflé pancake comes from the way these pancakes are prepared and mimic how soufflés puff up and later deflate.

Japanese Soufflé Pancake instructions

1. Separate the egg white and yolk and add 5g sugar into the yolk bowl and beat it until it turns pale..
2. Add in oil and mix it well..
3. Add in milk and vanilla paste and mix them well..
4. Mix and sieve the plain flour and corn flour and add them into the yolk bowl. (Small amount a time and make sure it gets well mixed.).
5. Use electric mixer to beat the egg white a bit and then add in 10g sugar (again small amount a time to make sure the sugar and egg white mix well).
6. Beat the egg white until it turns to stiff peaks..
7. Scoop some white into the yolk bowl and gently mix them..
8. Pour the yolk mixture back to white bowl and mix them all together gently..
9. Two crumpet rings out on a slightly oiled frying pan and pour the pancake mixture in the rings..
10. Cook 5-8 minutes each sides. Enjoy them while it’s still warm with a big scoop of ice cream. Yum. 😋.

Both the pancakes and soufflés are made by folding meringue into the base batter to act as a natural leavening agent and to create that iconic rise and fall. Why are the Japanese pancakes jiggly? The Japanese have a pancake recipe that is incredibly light and fluffy and, most importantly, very easy to make - soufflé pancakes. These hotcakes have been popularized by the Gram Café in Tokyo, a venue known for creating the famous raindrop cake and other Instagram-worthy delicacies. The Japanese soufflé pancakes is best served immediately as it shrinks a bit.