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Caramelized apple Dutch baby pancake

As the holidays approach, I can sense a growing anxiety in the conversations about food that I have with other people. From simple office potlucks to special holiday feasts and everything in between, this time of year can be particularly taxing for folks who start to feel overwhelmed by what needs to come out of their kitchens. There’s pressure to make something exciting and to keep up with traditions, to make things that feel special, and to get it all right, even when you’ve maybe never made the dish before. Sharing and enjoying food you’ve made can be one of life’s best moments, but it’s easy to let anxiety build and overshadow the experience. I get that; it happens to me too.

What’s my advice for overcoming it? Oh boy. It’s woven through my classes and through all the conversations I have with anxious home cooks, but it would take a bit of thinking and a fair amount of time to write it all out – and we all know this isn’t a time of year prone to excess time hanging around. So for now, I’ll just leave you with a secret weapon – a caramelized apple Dutch baby.

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Dutch Baby breakfast pancake

Every once in a while a recipe comes across my kitchen that is so simple and so genius that I almost can’t believe it. In this case, it’s a matter of mixing together some eggs, flour, and milk, pouring it into a pan coated with a bit of melted butter, and sticking it in a hot oven. What you get is a fluffy, eggy pancake perfectly suited as a vehicle for whatever sort of toppings you want to put on it, just as you might with a flapjack or crêpe. Lemon juice and powdered sugar would be a pretty classic combination, but I have enjoyed plenty a Dutch Baby slice slathered with peanut butter and bananas, or blackberry jam and plain yogurt, or many other things. The fact that you can top it with pretty much anything, along with how easy and quick it is but impressive nonetheless, makes it a particularly good thing to have in your breakfast arsenal for when you have houseguests. You’re quite likely to have the ingredients on-hand anyway, along with tasty things to spread on it, and it won’t keep you at the stove making batch after batch like you might with pancakes.

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