For many years, I have enjoyed scrolling through Facebook and YouTube to see what random content has been picked for me to see. When food videos pop up, I can’t help but watch with fascination at the kind of foods people create. Drooling at the looks of food or feeling creative when food gets fancy.
Quite a few times, I have watched pancake art and thought ‘That’s so easy. Oh I can do that! You just have to draw, how hard can it be?’. Well let me tell you, that mindset was my first mistake. Let me tell you, how my journey of watching pancake art lead to me creating butchered pieces of art and pancake mix in my hair.
Like anybody else who watches a video and get inspired with the ‘I can do it attitude and stars in their eyes’, I went to amazon and ordered a bunch of squeeze bottles. The first of my many mistakes, because I didn’t realise they were 20ml bottles, not 200ml. I had a test run with them using my own homemade pancake mix, and well I can tell you that didn’t go too well. By the time I had finished drawing with the pin point squeeze bottles, I had a burnt pancake that was paper thin. And so, with that, I then took back to going on amazon to order sauce sized bottles.
In the mean time as I awaited for my new bottles to arrive, pancake day came around. So I took to making fresh batches of pancakes and had fun flipping them over and over. Now some of them did burn, some exploded upon the sheer brute force of my flipping, and one even got yeeted across into the sink. It was one sloppy pancake day for sure. Oops! But at least I got a bit of entertainment out of it.
Eventually a few days later, my squeezy bottles from Amazon arrived. So I popped to the shops, and grabbed the final ingredients I needed. I took out my camera, set it up and began the journey one final time. Taking plain ingredients… To making this.
Now as you can see, what a mess I made! I certainly made some… Questionable art to say the least. But also some damn right horrifying pieces too. I mean have you seen Pikachu? It looks like someone grabbed some an image of Pikachu and butchered it.
The whole experience and journey of making the pancakes has certainly been entertaining. No way am I any good at it. But just experimenting, having a mess about and certainly giving it a try was worth the while. I mean I hope I at least made you all smile with my abominations. I do have to say I do at least like one of the half butchered Pikachu’s and my little dinosaur character. Maybe in the future I will give it another try. It has certainly taught me some techniques to the style, and I no where near had the right equipment.
But as a whole, I had fun. And that’s what matters. Let’s see where this journey takes me next.
Not Bucket List Journey 