Red Velvet Pancake

Ingredients list for Red Velvet Pancake

• 2 tablespoons Beetroot juice
• a few drops Edible red colour
• 1 1/4 cups Refined flour (maida) sifted
• a pinch Salt
• 1 tablespoon Castor sugar (caster sugar)
• 2 teaspoons Baking powder
• 2 Eggs
• 5 tablespo Melted butter
• 1 cup Milk
• for greasing Strawberry Fans
• Frosting
• 1 cup Mascarpone cheese
• 1 cup Cream cheese
• 1/2 cup Icing sugar
• 1 cup Whipped cream

Method

1. Combine flour, salt, sugar and baking powder in a bowl and mix well.
2. Make a well in the flour mixture. Break eggs into it, add butter and whisk along with the milk till well combined and a smooth batter is formed. Add beetroot juice, edible red colour and mix well. Set aside for 5 minutes.
3. Heat a non-stick pan and brush with some butter. Pour a ladleful of batter in it and spread into small pancakes. Let the underside turn golden, flip and cook till the other side also turns golden.
4. For frosting, beat together mascarpone cheese, cream cheese and icing sugar and mix well. Fold in the whipped cream.
5. Place one pancake on a serving platter, pipe the frosting over it and cover it with another pancake. Repeat the same process.
6. Finally pipe the frosting on the top, garnish with strawberry fans and serve.