Dutch Babies

To make the Dutch Baby: Preheat your oven to 400 degree's.

Place the butter in a 10 inch oven safe skillet (I like to use a cast iron skillet) and place in your preheated oven to melt the butter and heat the pan.

While the butter is melting in the oven, add the buttermilk, flour, eggs, sugar, vanilla and salt to your blend and blend until smooth.

Using a hot pad, remove the pan from the oven when the butter and melted and is bubbling.

Pour the batter into the hot pan and return the pan to the oven. Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until the dutch baby is golden brown and cooked through.

Remove from the oven, dust with powdered sugar and serve with your favorite jam or syrup.

***To make a fruit Dutch baby, to the batter add 1 cup of your favorite fruit (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, bananas...).***

To make the buttermilk syrup: In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, buttermilk, butter, corn syrup and salt.

Be sure the pan is a LARGE pan so you don't boil the syrup over onto your stove top. Bring the mixture to a boil and let it boil for about 5 minutes. You will notice it starts to brown slightly.

When the syrup has started to brown, remove from the heat and whisk in the baking soda. It's at this stage you wanna make sure you pan is large enough to handle the reaction the baking soda causes. The syrup with foam up and potentially boil over if the pan isn't large enough.

To make the strawberry syrup: sugar, water, strawberries and salt to you blender. Puree until everything is blended together. Bring the syrup to a boil (be sure to watch it so it doesn't boil over) remove from the heat and serve with your Dutch baby's.