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    Home » Recipes » Breakfast & Brunch Recipes

    "True Blood" Inspired Hoecakes

    Modified: Nov 29, 2019 · Published: Sep 2, 2012 by Ashley

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    We started watching True Blood a few weeks ago, and just finished season 3 last night. One of the characters on the show loves to eat hoecakes fried in bacon grease. So this morning, when I woke up, I looked at Dino and jokingly said, "Go make me some hoecakes in bacon grease", and he left the room and went downstairs. I then did a quick search for a recipe for future reference, and I saw that Paula Deen had one. I figure she'd know hoecakes better than most people! So I emailed him the recipe.

    True Blood Inspired Hoecakes

    After I fed the baby, I came downstairs... and Dino was actually frying bacon and making hoecake batter. Score! These are really tasty- they're like a mix between a pancake and cornbread. Yum! They're pretty heavy though, so be warned! After we finished eating breakfast, he told me that he saw that I emailed him the same recipe that he looked up. Talk about serendipity!

    True Blood Inspired Hoecakes

    Hoecakes

    Paula Deen

    Total Time: 20 min
    Prep: 5 min
    Cook: 15 min
    Yield: About 17 hoecakes

    • 1 cup self-rising flour
    • 1 cup self-rising cornmeal, or from a mix (recommended: Aunt Jemima's)
    • 2 eggs
    • 1 tablespoon sugar
    • ¾ cup buttermilk
    • ⅓ cup plus 1 tablespoon water
    • ¼ cup vegetable oil
    • Oil, butter, clarified margarine, or bacon grease for frying

    Mix well all ingredients, except for the frying oil. Heat the frying oil or butter in a medium or large skillet over medium heat. Drop the batter, by full tablespoons, into the hot skillet. Use about 2 tablespoons of batter per hoecake. Fry each hoecake until brown and crisp; turn each hoecake with a spatula, and then brown the other side. With a slotted spoon, remove each hoecake to drain on a paper towel-lined plate. Leftover batter will keep in refrigerator for up to 2 days.

    Big Flavors Rating: 5 Stars

    The littlest hoecake fan in the house:

    Baby eating in a high chair.

    We also created these mini-chocolate chip hoecakes with the leftover batter. They were amazing!

    Mini Chocolate Chip Hoecakes

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    1. Katie

      September 02, 2012 at 8:58 pm

      Okay, forget the hoecakes, Ian is scrumptious. The eyes! The hair! I could just eat him up. What a cutie.

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    2. Ashley

      September 03, 2012 at 9:09 pm

      Hehe thanks!! We're pretty big Ian fans over here 😉

      Reply

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