Pancake Day is one of the best food-related days of the year. You can have pancakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner if you like, and they're usually pretty easy to make too.
What we didn't realise was that pancake making could get even easier with the help of the humble ice cube tray.
TikTok creator Deimante Dabravolskis has been making batches of pancake batter that you can freeze with whatever toppings you like, fruit, chocolate chips etc. She then pours the batter into an ice cube tray to freeze, and whenever a pancake craving hits you can cook them directly from frozen!
Genius.
Deimante shares the full recipe for the pancakes on her Instagram profile, and it sounds pretty tasty to us. She warns pancake-makers to use a regular sized ice cube tray rather than a giant one, or your pancakes will take way too long to cook.
The video has gained almost 10 million views on TikTok alone, with people commenting saying it was one of the most genuinely useful meal prep hacks they'd ever come across.
The frozen pancakes would work super well if you were cooking for a crowd of pals on pancake day too, as you could prep everything the night before and simply heat up the batter the next day.
Deimante also says that the pancakes should be cooked on a low heat to avoid burnt outsides and frozen middles, which would put a dampener on your breakfast for sure.
Louella is our food and drink writer, covering everything from how to host the perfect pasta party to the latest research on fermented foods and gut health. She's worked in almost every part of the food and hospitality industry, from serving plates and pouring wine to recipe developing and cooking behind the scenes to create beautifully photographed food for magazines. Outside of the office, you can usually find Louella performing very badly in pub quizzes or shaking up a margarita or two.
