Pancake art is an art form in which works are created on a

griddle A griddle, in the UK also called a girdle, is a cooking device consisting mainly of a broad, usually flat cooking surface. Nowadays it can be either a movable metal pan- or plate-like utensil, a flat heated cooking surface built into a stove or ...

or frying pan using

pancake A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a Starch, starch-based batter (cooking), batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or fryi ...

batter as the medium applied from a

pancake pen A pancake pen is a cooking tool used to distribute batter onto a griddle or a pan. Typically constructed from a plastic squeeze bottle, a pancake pen is utilized to create creative pancake shapes known as pancake art. The pancake pen is used by ...

. Batters containing different food coloring may be used to create a color piece, or contrasting shades can be achieved by allowing parts of the image to cook longer. When cooking is complete, the pancake is flipped over to reveal the final image.

References

External links

* {{Decorative arts Pancakes Folk art