PANCAKE PARTY!

Last night Petra and I had a Pancake Party in our flat. As soon as we arrived back from town (after going to the Reindeer Fair) we immediately started preparing some of the fillings for the pancakes.
Petra knows some amazing pancake filling recipes and teaches me how to make them. I start with making a traditional Slovenian cottage cheese filling with raisins and cinnamon. Then we make three more fillings; 1 white chocolate filling, 1 vanailla sauce filling and 1 coconut/cream filling. We were tasting and trying all the filling ingredients and snacking throughout the filling making and by the time all the fillings were finished we were already on major sugar highs...Perfect! as this would give us enough energy for the "gazillion" pancakes we still had to bake for the party!

Two of the pancake fillings: cottage cheese/raisin/cinnamon filling and a coconut/cream filling!














Barbora comes and joins us at 6:45 to help us make the pancakes. We make a good team and everyone has a task to do. Petra pours in the batter, Barbora and I make the pancakes and we alternate with pouring in the oil into each others pans. Once the pancakes are ready, they get placed in a pan that is placed on top of a pot filling with boiling water to keep the pancakes warm (genius idea from Petra!).














While the pancakes are busy being made, Carolina (Polish), Batek (Polish), Amy (Saffie) and Petra taste all the fillings...wetting their appetites for what lies ahead.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm....PANCAKES! Everyone is eager to try pancakes with as many of the fillings as they can!
As a filling we also had a traditional Finnish food called "Mammi"...Wolfi and I had seen it in the shops and thought we just had to try it. One usually eats it with ice-cream and apparently (one of our lecturers told us), even though it looks rather "disgusting and tar-like" once you try it you will love it!. I hesitantly taste a half a teaspoon of Mammi....Hmmmm...not too bad!Wolfi preparing his master piece...nougat and chocolate ice-cream and chocolate sauce pancake!
Lind (Iceland), June (another Saffie:) and Evelina (Italian...suspiciously checking out the "Mammi)...
Carolina (Polish...our other roommate) and Lind...
Amy (Saffie), Fransesca (Italian) and Barbora (Prague)...
Today for lunch, Wolfi is making for us a "Fritattensuppe" (Pancake soup) from the left over pancakes...bringing some Austrian Culture into our lives!