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Last Minute Christmas Gifts Day 3: Cheapskates Hotcakes Hamper

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This hamper comes complete with the ingredients for MOO Pancake Syrup, MOO Hotcakes and the tip sheets with full recipes in a neat gift hamper making it portable, the ideal gift for the family heading off on holidays.

Cheapskates Hotcakes Hamper
You will need:
Mum's Secret Hotcakes & Moo Pancake Syrup Tip Sheet
Large paper lunch bags
2  x ziplock sandwich bags
1 x 250ml glass bottle with a leak-proof stopper (an old mint sauce bottle is good)
2 cups SR flour
1/4 cup milk powder (skim or full cream)
2 tsp sugar
2 cups brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar
Optional - cast iron pancake pan - from specialty stores, around $5

Instructions:
Print the tip sheets.

Mix the SR flour, powdered milk and sugar together and put into a ziplock bag and label "Hotcake Mix".

Place the brown sugar and vanilla sugar into another ziplock bag and label "Pancake Syrup Mix".

Decorate the front of one paper bag with "Hotcake Mix" and another with "Pancake Syrup".

Decorate a third paper bag with the words "Cheapskates Hotcakes Hamper".

Place the hotcake mix and the pancake mix into this bag along with the small glass bottle.

Fold the tip sheet and slip into the paper bag.

Fold the top of the bag over and staple shut.

Attach a gift tag.

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