Fresh Crumpets

When I was living in England, Crumpets were one of the cheapest and tastiest snacks that I could stock my cupboard with.  (Seriously, I could buy a package of 8 for 22p, which is like $0.50Cnd!)  I love bread, and I love melted butter, so there was really nothing tastier than a toasted crumpet oozing with melted butter.  Except, perhaps, when I added one of the many, many tasty chocolate spreads that abound in England (Mars spread, Snickers spread, Cadbury Milk Chocolate spread.... But I digress.) 

Yesterday, I happened across a pin on Pinterest that lead me to this blog post on how to make your own crumpets.  I have to say, I was surprised, I had no idea that crumpets were made on a stovetop!  Despite the fact that I don't have a lot of luck using active dry yeast in bread recipes, this dough was easy and straightforward to put together.  I would rather make these on a gas burner than an electric stove top, because it would be so much easier to get the correct temperature to cook them at, but after several tries, I got the right temp.  The recipe suggests cooking them at medium-high, but I at the end I had my element all the way down to a 3. 

Of course, once I had them made, I started thinking that I really need to  make another batch of home-made nutella to go along with them, but I didn't have the time and just ran to the store to buy some jam and no-name chocolate hazelnut spread instead. 

If you want the crumpets to turn out like they do in the store, you'll want to use some forms to make them - mine turned out oddly shapped, but they're still tasty.  I did notice that there are not nearly as many holes in the home-made crumpets as there are in the store-bought ones, and I wonder if there is a way to change that.  The recipe made 18 crumpets for me - I've put some into the freezer, and have been eating the others so far for snack, breakfast, and lunch.  I will absolutely keep this recipe to make again!