Cauldron Cakes

[dragoon811]

Inspired by CaraMcGee’s Ronald Weasley tea blend on Adagio.com , which is delicious.

Now, my boyfriend has a delicious apple pancake recipe, that I honestly think needed something…more.

Then I thought… “I need to make Moriartea Pancakes.” Then, I thought “omg. no. CAULDRON cakes”. And promptly began thinking of Mrs Weasley - what a great cook she was, and how, well.. how feeding 7 children, 6 of them boys, she’d need filling, delicious Cauldron Cakes!

One ponderous thought and my shiny brand-new stand mixer, out came these dense, filling, DELICIOUS pancakes!

Weasley Cauldron Cakes:

• 1c raisins, boiled for 10 minutes in apple juice and a spoonful of brown sugar - reserve the apple juice
• 1 and 1/2c strong (very strong) Ronald Weasley tea
• 1 and 1/2c milk (you can also steep some tea in this for extra-win)
• 2 apples, grated (used here 1 gala, 1 crispin, because that’s what I had.)
• 1c quick oats
• 3c all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp ginger
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• heap big spoonful of brown sugar
• 6 eggs
• butter for cooking. Lots of butter ♥

Directions!

1. Make sure your tea has cooled - I cheated and used my fake ice cubes (the plastic ones where the insides freeze but the outside is plastic) - so you don’t cook the eggs.
2. Combine flour, oatmeal, eggs, and water in mixer. You kind of want the consistency of yogurt.
3. Add your spices and almond/vanilla extracts, along with that brown sugar.
4. Add grated apples and the raisins, adding milk as needed. This batter is VERY THIRSTY. You will probably end up needing all of the milk. I needed all of the milk and some of my raisin-boiling apple juice.
5. Melt butter in a frying pan - we use two at a time so this goes more quickly, and use a nice pat of butter per pan.
6. Cook on both sides - THESE DO NOT RISE. They brown and are yummy and dense and delicious.  When the edges start to brown, see how wiggly it is and check underneath. Then flip it and cook until brown. Add more butter between panakes.
7. Repeat until batter is gone - you can stash finished pancakes between two plates, or in a warm oven.
8. Serve; add butter and/or sugar, brown sugar, caramel sauce, or syrup to your liking. Or eat plain. These are delicious.

Servings: About 4. We’ve never seen anyone eat more than 2 and a half and not regret it shortly thereafter. These are dense, and fruity, and filling; It’d be no wonder if when at Hogwarts, Ron misses his mum’s cauldron cakes!!

Comments

[dragoon811.livejournal.com]

The raisins were a delicious addition. I wouldn't add craisins, myself - too tart for the rest of the flavors. They're a very homey type of taste, and the craisins would over-power that. :)

[dragoon811.livejournal.com]

Oh, golly, I don't know yet lol. I have tea blends for Draco (earl grey green, peppermint, and almond), Luna (earl grey lavender, rooibos jasmine, and guanabana), Neville (irish breakfast, rooibos vanilla chai, and peach), Harry (pumpkin spice, caramel, and masala chai), Ron (masala chai, ginger, and almond), Hermione (ceylon sonata, pu erh dante, and caramel), and Snape (white monkey, pu erh dante, and osmanthus).

I kind of want to something, but I don't know yet lol. I also have a whole bunch of BBC Sherlock blends, and a Sailor Moon blend...

Snape is too much of a drinking tea to really consider adding it for baking. (But he is the PERFECT brew. I love him). Hermione is also more of a drinking tea (dentist's daughter and all!). Harry would make a good pumpkin bread later in the year. Neville... not sure what I'd do with him yet. It has to strike me, really.

The idea for Luna struck me when I first tried the tea and thought "oh this would be great with sugar cookies..or IN sugar cookies!!". Cauldron Cakes as born out of pondering Moriarty blend pancakes and took off from there lol.

Draco... he's not minty in flavor, but he is in aroma. I wonder if that would do well in a bread, if the aroma would lessen and leave the depth of the earl grey green. If so, he might make good zucchini bread. Man, I haven't had that in YEARS...

Actually..hmm. I wonder if Neville-cream cheese frosting would work in carrot cake!!! :-D