Harry Styles’s Dutch Baby with Cinnamon Rhubarb
Ruby Tandoh's recipe for Harry Styles's Dutch Baby Pancake with Cinnamon Rhubarb compote from Flavour. This recipe makes for a deliciously decadent breakfast or brunch or a marvellous dessert. If it's good enough for Harry Styles, hey...?
Introduction
Harry Styles once recommended a version of this dessert to my friend’s dad while sitting at the counter of Soho restaurant Spuntino – that was all the incentive I needed to come up with a recipe of my own. A Dutch Baby sits somewhere between a Yorkshire pudding and a pancake: a sweet, cinnamon-spiced batter, blasted in a hot oven until it rises to airy perfection. Served with tart rhubarb and ice cream, it’s a great dessert, though you could tone down the sweetness and just heap it with fresh berries for a fine breakfast, too. I don’t always have time to treat myself to this indulgent brunch treat, but through all the muesli and porridge and sad cereal bars, it’s this little baby that I miss.
Ingredients
| 150g | rhubarb, cut into 3–4cm chunks |
| 30g | caster sugar |
| 1/2 tsp | ground cinnamon |
| 1 | star anise |
| For the batter: | |
| 50g | caster sugar |
| 2 | large eggs |
| 100ml | milk |
| 60g | plain flour |
| 1/4 tsp | ground cinnamon |
| Pinch | of ground nutmeg |
| Pinch | of salt |
| 25g | butter |
Essential kit
You will need a a 17–20cm cast-iron frying pan or similar size pie dish to hand.
Method
Put the rhubarb, sugar, cinnamon and star anise in a pan and cook over a low heat for 10–15 minutes. The rhubarb will start off defiantly crunchy, but as it warms it will soften and release its juices until you’re left with a rosy rhubarb compote.
Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas mark 6. Have a 17–20cm cast-iron frying pan or similar size pie dish to hand.
In a mixing bowl, whisk the sugar, eggs and milk together. Combine the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a separate bowl. Add a little of the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and whisk to a thick paste before pouring in the remaining liquid. Mix the batter until smooth, then set aside while you prepare the pan.
Cube the butter, place it in the pan or pie dish and set in the preheated oven for 8–10 minutes, until the pan’s really hot and the butter is sizzling. As soon as the pan is ready, pour in the batter and bake for 20 minutes. When it’s ready, the Baby will have majestically puffed and tanned to a golden brown. Serve straight away with the rhubarb (rewarm it if you need to) and plenty of ice cream.
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