Invasive Pancakes

In the Pacific Northwest this is the time of year the horribly invasive Himalayan Blackberries start hanging heavy with berries. We did our part and gathered as much as we could without shriveling into a pile of ashes in the blazing sun.

I made blackberry vanilla chocolate cookies with the cookie recipe I posted recently. Knead a tablespoon of cocoa powder into half the dough, roll both parts of the dough into a log, cut slices and press a frozen blackberry into a vanilla slice to top it off with a chocolate slice. Very yummy fresh out of the oven! No pictures though, sorry.

Then this morning I made blackberry pancakes using the “Hot Cakes” recipe from Easy Vegan Cooking by Leah Leneman, a cookbook I have not used nearly enough in the years I owned it. I modified her recipe slightly by adding a bit of raw sugar to the dough along with a teaspoon of egg replacer and another one of cornstarch (I was afraid they wouldn’t hold together). I stirred the frozen blackberries in last thing before pouring it into the pan. Very yummy!