The ultimate pancake – made 4 ways

You can't go wrong with a 50/50 mix of wheat flour to oats in your batter. Photos: Chicago Tribune/TNS

If you still haven’t got a present all wrapped up on the morning of Mother’s Day, don’t panic – she’d never know that you ... (insert your good reason here) if you make her a grand stack of lovely pancakes from store cupboard essentials.

She has to give you at least a B for effort even if you botch it up, and it’s a definite A if you don’t botch it up. Guaranteed.