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Here is a tasty recipe that is great for busy school days, leisurely weekends, or special holiday brunches — German Pancakes! Make them a tradition in your family.
German Pancakes Recipe
Capturing a Family Tradition
When I was a kid, it was always a great morning when you woke up and smelled German Pancakes cooking. Mmm, I’m getting hungry already. Why is that? Because we are making German Pancakes today. This recipe is easy, versatile, and delicious! That is why it has been a family tradition for generations.
German Pancakes are a crepe-like pancake, they are large and thin. You brush them with Gold’n Soft spreadable butter and add cinnamon and sugar, or jellies, jams, fresh fruit, or whatever you like. Roll the pancake, sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired and serve. They are perfect for a family with differing tastes because you make them individually. Have all one flavor (like me, cinnamon and sugar – yum!), or mix it up.
These pancakes are quick and easy, so they are a perfect choice for fueling the kids up before school, a leisurely weekend breakfast, or a holiday brunch.
German Pancakes Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1-1/4 Cup – Milk
- 4 – Eggs
- 1 Cup – Flour
- 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
- Gold’n Soft Spreadable Butter
- Fillings of Choice: Cinnamon and Sugar; Jams; Jellies, Fruit, etc.
- Powdered Sugar (Optional)
- Syrup (optional)
Directions:
- Crack open the Eggs into a bowl.
- Add Milk to eggs, beat well.
- Mix Flour and Salt in a separate bowl.
- Stir flour and salt mixture into the milk and eggs gradually, until smooth.
- The batter will be thin.
- Heat a heavy 8-inch to 10-inch skillet and grease lightly with butter or oil.
- Pour only enough batter to make a very thin pancake. Tip the skillet from side to side and around to help spread the pancake batter as needed.
- Cook on one side (without flipping) until the pancake begins to blister or bubble. Flip the pancake and cook the other side until a light golden color. Do not over cook. You do not want them to get hard or crispy. NOTE: Pancakes cook very quickly, pay attention.
- Remove from skillet and place on a board.
- Once you have several pancakes stacked on the board, you can begin filling one at a time.
- Brush one side only with Gold’n Soft butter.
- Add about 1 to 2 Tablespoon(s) of your desired filling: Cinnamon and Sugar; Jam; Jelly; Fruit; etc. to the buttered side.
- Roll pancake from one edge all the way across to the other side.
- Place rolled pancake (or two) on a plate and dust with Powdered Sugar.
NOTE: If you have two cooks, one can be cooking the pancakes while the other fills and rolls them. Kids love to help with these pancakes.
You can see above how I butter a pancake and sprinkled it with cinnamon and sugar before rolling it — that’s my favorite! Below is a slideshow of how to roll a German pancake with fresh fruit.
Printable Recipe – German Pancakes
- 1-1/4 Cup - Milk
- 4 - Eggs
- 1 Cup - Flour
- 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
- Butter
- Fillings of Choice: Cinnamon and Sugar; Jams; Jellies, Fruit, etc.
- Powdered Sugar (Optional)
- Syrup (optional).
- Crack open the Eggs into a bowl.
- Add Milk to eggs, beat well.
- Mix Flour and Salt in a separate bowl.
- Stir flour and salt mixture into the milk and eggs gradually, until smooth.
- The batter will be thin.
- Heat a heavy 8-inch to 10-inch skillet and grease lightly with butter or oil.
- Pour only enough batter to make a very thin pancake. Tip the skillet from side to side and around to help spread the pancake batter as needed.
- Cook on one side (without flipping) until the pancake begins to blister or bubble. Flip the pancake and cook the other side until a light golden color. Do not over cook. You do not want them to get hard or crispy. NOTE: Pancakes cook very quickly, pay attention.
- Remove from skillet and place on a board.
- Once you have several pancakes stacked on the board, you can begin filling one at a time.
- Brush one side only with butter.
- Add about 1 to 2 Tablespoon(s) of your desired filling: Cinnamon and Sugar; Jam; Jelly; Fruit; etc. to the buttered side.
- Roll pancake from one edge all the way across to the other side.
- Place rolled pancake (or two) on a plate and dust with Powdered Sugar
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FIND a Store near you! We picked ours up from the refrigerated Fresh Dairy section at our local Smart & Final.
As you can tell, German Pancakes are still one of my all time favorite breakfasts. So much so that we sometimes have them for dinner. Who says pancakes are only for breakfast? LOL You can even fill these pancakes with savory items such as chicken, asparagus, and more. The sky is the limit.
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I have other breakfast ideas for you as well, Perhaps you’d enjoy my Breakfast BLT – A Twist on a Favorite or Avocado Eggs Florentine Toast
Make German Pancakes with Gold’n Soft spreadable butter for your family and start a new tradition. #CapturingTraditions Enjoy!
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I have never had these before.They look amazing! Maybe ill try them!
Wow they look just like crepes. I am going to have to try this recipe and I prefer a thinner version
These look so good and remind me of the crepes my dad used to make on special occasions when we were kids. I’m totally in a pancake mood now!
I had never heard of German pancakes before, but this recipe looks delicious. I am going to have to try to give it a whirl this weekend for the family on Sunday morning perhaps!
German pancakes are perfect for Sunday mornings, Brandy. Your family will love them! 🙂
My German great aunt used evaporated milk. I still do to this day. Think I’ll go make a batch for Sunday breakfast.
Oh these are so cool! I wonder if they’d become a new favorite. It would be fun to try a few fillings.
My neighbor used to make these for us when we were kids. I could never find a recipe! Thank you!!!!
You’re welcome, Emily, it’s always nice to find something that brings back happy (and delicious) childhood memories. 🙂
This sounds absolutely amazing! I’ve never heard of German Pancakes before. I am definitely pinning this recipe so I give it a try soon.
I love how every country refers to the same recipe as its own… This is the exact ingredients different proportions that we use to make our Family’s recipe for Norwegian Pancakes!! Haha..
I’ve never had German pancakes before. They are different, but they look really good. I would like to try and make these one day.
These German Pancakes look delicious! I can’t wait to give this recipe a try. Thanks for sharing!
The German Pancakes are amazing, Jesenia! You and your family will love them. 🙂
Pancakes are awesome – they’re easy and quick to make, and you can use pretty much anything as filling and it will be great. Thanks for the recipe!
Your German pancakes recipe looks so delicious. I know my family would love them with the cinnamon and sugar on them. Stopping by from the #HomeMattersParty linky.
Yum – those sound amazing! Pinning to try for my family. 🙂
You will love them, Jamie! 🙂
Oooohhhhh, I can’t wait to make these, I love crepes, so I know I would love these too! Thanks for sharing, #HomeMattersParty
These look awesome! They so remind me of the crepes I had when I was a kid. My daughter would no doubt love them with Nutella and my son will love the bananas. Stopping by from #HomeMattersParty
These look & sound delicious! Love that they are not as heavy as traditional pancakes!! #homemattersparty
I know I am not a food person, but I have never had German pancakes before. I am totally going to have to make these for my children. #HomeMattersParty
Wow, looks yum! I have to try it. #HomeMattersParty
These look amazing and delicious. I can think of so many different varieties of filling to try with these. Pinned for later. #HomeMattersParty
These are the same as our traditional pancakes here in the UK, we have them on pancake day (shrove Tuesday) and in our house lots of other times of the year! Here it’s traditional to have them with a sprinkle of sugar and a big squeeze of lemon juice – absolutely delicious!
So I made this the first time the other day. I’d been looking for an easy German pancake recipe, but anytime I googled all I got was sheet cakes. Those are NOT German pancakes. I grew up in Germany, so I know. I have a Dr Oetker recipe book, but it calls for way too many ingredients. All I wanted was an easy German breakfast pancakes.
I tweaked your recipe somewhat because I found that it was extremely eggy. I could taste the eggs more than anything else. As a result the pancakes were a bit rubbery.
I reduced to 2 eggs and kept everything else the same. Rolled them up with Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate chips, and they were perfect.
I learned this from my mom and she learned it from her mother in law we had them for breakfast and dinner