Easter Brunch. Family Feast.
Pancakes for Easter and a coffee to match.
How do you envision Easter? A picture I have in my head: No stress, no rush. Family at the table, spring air through the window, and in the middle of the table, a stack of pancakes, and on the table, coffee steaming in the large ARCA.
Try it out. Two recipes from our friend, photographer, and cookbook author Gintare Marcel, one of the most talented voices in the world of cookbooks, awarded with the Gourmand World Cookbook Award. For Easter, she brought two recipes: classic with buttermilk, and vegan. Both ready in under twenty minutes. Both look like you spent hours preparing them.
The first pancake is always a test.
Just eat it and keep going. From the second one, the temperature is right, the batter is right, everything is right.
The batter itself can easily be mixed the night before. Overnight in the fridge, then straight into the pan on Easter morning. Done.
Buttermilk Pancakes
Serves 4
Ingredients
250 g flour · 2 tbsp sugar · ½ tsp baking soda · 1 tsp baking powder · 1 pinch salt · 500 ml buttermilk · 2 eggs · 30 g butter, melted
Preparation
Whisk eggs with buttermilk. Mix all dry ingredients, then stir in the buttermilk-egg mixture and melted butter. Do not overmix; lumps are allowed. Heat some butter in a pan, add 2–3 tbsp of batter, cook over medium heat until bubbles appear, flip, and cook for another 1–2 minutes.
Serve warm with fresh berries and maple syrup.
Tip: No buttermilk on hand? Mix 480 ml milk with 20 ml lemon juice, let sit for five minutes. Done.
Vegan Pancakes
Serves 4
Ingredients
250 g flour · 2 tbsp sugar · 1½ tsp baking powder · 1 pinch salt · 1 pinch cinnamon · ½ vanilla bean · 500 ml oat drink · 2 tbsp olive oil
Preparation
Mix all dry ingredients. Whisk oat drink with oil and stir in. Heat some oil in a pan, add 2–3 tbsp of batter, cook over medium heat until bubbles appear, flip, and cook for another 1–2 minutes.
Serve warm with fresh berries and maple syrup.
Tip: Oat drink makes the creamiest pancakes. Almond drink makes them a bit lighter. Both are good.
To go with it: the Fika Blend.
Pancakes don't need everyday coffee. They need a coffee that can handle Sunday.
The Fika Blend is made for exactly that. Organic Arabica beans from Mexico and Peru, gently roasted, with a depth you notice with the first sip. Winner of the Coffee Battle 2025, chosen by our customers, not by a laboratory.
We always look forward to it. And especially at Easter.
Happy Easter.
Jürgen Henkel
Not more. Better.
