Pancake Christmas tree: a fun breakfast for kids

Ingredients

• 200 g self-raising flour, or plain flour with 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tbsp caster sugar
• a pinch of salt
• 2 eggs
• 250 ml milk
• 30 g butter, melted, plus a little for the pan
• 2 kiwis
• 1 banana
• 8 strawberries or raspberries
• a handful of blueberries
• 1 tbsp icing sugar, for dusting
• natural yoghurt or maple syrup, to serve (optional)

Method

1. Mix the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Whisk in the eggs, milk and melted butter until you have a thick, smooth batter.
2. Heat a non-stick frying pan over a medium heat and brush with a little butter.
3. Make pancakes in different sizes: for each tree you need one large (about 2 tbsp of batter), one medium, one small and one tiny pancake. Cook for 1-2 minutes until bubbles appear, then flip and cook for another minute.
4. Keep the pancakes warm on a plate under a clean tea towel while you make the rest.
5. Slice the kiwis, cut the strawberries into small pieces and slice the banana.
6. Stack the pancakes from large to tiny on each plate, with kiwi slices between the layers as green branches.
7. Decorate with strawberries and blueberries as baubles, cut a star from a slice of banana for the top and dust with icing sugar snow.