TRAINING FOR PANCAKE DAY
TUESDAY may be Pancake Day, but that means today is training day.
So pull on your best elasticwaisted pants and head in to Southport’s Gangster and Gatsby cafe for a pancake challenge that won’t leave you flat (although “fat’’ is a distinct possibility).
The Harlem Hatchet features a stack of four dinner-plate size pancakes, complete with peanut butter, Nutella, and marshmallows with chocolate and caramel sauce, big scoops of vanilla and chocolate ice cream and a sprinkling of peanut butter nibs on top.
Gabrielle Armstrong, from Gangster and Gatsby, advises that while it’s best to share, a grand total of 18 customers have managed to polish off the pancake plate solo.
“I don’t know how they do it,” she says. “My sister and I shared it and we only got a quarter of the way through it. It’s delicious but filling.”
Gabrielle says the cafe will be celebrating Pancake Day – also known as Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday, which is the last day before Christian fasting for Lent begins – with the addition of pancake fries to the menu.
Dubbed the Dapper Don, she says the dish features deep-fried pancake strips sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and served with maple syrup or brown sugar syrup. WHERE: Gangster and Gatsby, 56 Scarborough Street, Southport CONTACT: 0415 415 919 PRICE: $24.95 for the Harlem Hatchet