Apple and Pear Pancakes with Cinna-butter

Apple pancakes with cinnamon-butter... my greatest takeaway from my high school years as a waitress at a small breakfast and lunch cafe on Long Island, Oak Plaza Cafe. After every shift, I ordered eggs, bacon and an apple pancake with cinnamon butter (a mix of butter, cinnamon and powdered sugar) and it never got old ... and not only because I can eat breakfast for every meal. The trick is to the cut the apple slices into about 1 by 1 cm triangles that are only a mm or 2 thick. Stir them into the pancake butter and fry up golden brown. Make sure they cook through! Then lather in the butter. I could eat this butter with a spoon...and admittedly have, shhhhh. 


I had a leftover pear and apple from my weekly pack lunches so treated my roommates to a variation on this end-of-shift-breakfast-feast at Oak Plaza. I cooked silver dollar pancakes with the chopped fruit and used brown sugar instead of powdered for the cinna butter. I usually won't eat maple syrup anyway on pancakes but some like it and we didn't have so I served warm honey with toasted almonds as a reaplcement. Not a bad way to start your lazy sunday.