We love to eat Breakfast for Dinner. It’s easy and I have all the ingredients. One of our favorites is Pop Up Pancakes, or as my husband’s family calls them, German Pancakes. I like to put a little twist on them by cooking these in muffin tins. They cook up as little puff balls and are easy for the kids to eat.
Pop Up Pancake Recipe – makes 24 muffins or fills a 9×13 baking pan
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup flour
- 6 eggs
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- dash salt
- Preheat oven at 400*
I like to blend all the ingredients in my blender. I have tried to whisk it or even use the electic mixer, but it seems to get the most smooth with a blender. Then grease your muffin tins or baking pan. My mom likes to bake these in a jelly roll pan.
Bake them for 15 minutes, or until puffy and golden on top. Use a knife to pry them out, hopefully they were greased well enough and should pop right out.
Now they are ready for toppings. I love syrup, powdered sugar, and fruit. You could even use fresh Strawberry Jam. We usually load it all on and dive in. What do you use to top your pancakes with? Maybe peanut butter or honey?
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You really need to try these with: sour cream, brown sugar, and fruit. Our very favorite way to eat them. Yum!
These are just Popovers at our house and I will make them with dinner sometimes a little bit of butter on them…yum!
This does look tempting, but I’m British, so more of a Yorkshire pudding/’toad in the hole’ kinda gal!
I will try and make an effort to have these with something sweet though, after all the positive comments. You can’t all be wrong!
Maybe start slowly- some roast beef and custard, or brocolli and chocolate sauce…?
I turned virtual food into actual food yesterday and loved it!
I added chopped Ginger gold apples into the center before baking and it worked just fine. My boyfriend and son liked them too!
Thanks!
Eva
I make this but add a tbsp of brown or raw or demerrara sugar and a tsp of vanilla. Makes it a little less Yorkshire pudding (which I grew up on) and a little more sweet so you can cut down on the maple syrup topping.
Growing up these were our favorite – we called it “BUMP” and I always thought it something my mom just made up, now I know better! :) I have 3 other siblings and we all got to choose our birthday meal every year – my oldest brother chose this EVERY single year.
Hi, I found you thru Angry Chicken. I loved this idea so I made these for breakfast this morning. I think tho, that I should have maybe added some baking soda? The flour I had was all purpose and not self rising. Mine didn’t puff up like that at all, but they were more like a muffin. That didn’t stop me from eating 4 of them with yogurt and jam on top though.
In the UK these are called ‘yorkshire puddings’ and are eaten with a roast dinner!
Thanks so much for this recipe! We had these for breakfast on Friday — seriously the easiest thing ever. Love it.
I tried making these over the weekend and they were GREAT. Kind of cross between a pancake and a crepe. Excellent receipe and very easy. Instead of strawberries, we used sliced peaches and cool whip. Yum.
Thanks for putting this out there!
These look so good. My kids love popovers. I should give these a try. Thank you.
Hi! I found you from Angry Chicken also, and we made these pancakes this morning! I used my stand mixer and substituted soy milk and they turned out very yummy! I lived at around 7000ft elevation, and probably should have added some extra flour, its always hard to know just how things are going to bake. I had left them in for over 20 minutes and they still weren’t quite so golden as yours! But we will definitely be making these again. We have been trying different types of pancakes every weekend, applesauce, pumpkin, waffles, and these, which have been the favorite so far!!!
Thank you for the recipe, just an FYI if you preheat the pan in the oven and then grease and fill they will come right out!
This looks like a great alternative to the same old pancakes!
A friend of mine just emailed this recipe and it’s on the menu for tonight, breakfast for dinner…gotta love it! Was wondering if you can freeze the left over pancake puffs?
Looks fantastic!
Lisa – Great question about the Pop Ups. I have never frozen them, but I’m sure you could. Just seal in an air tight bag, then thaw and pop them in the oven until warm and crispy again. Yum.
Those are basically Yorkshire Puddings, here in Ireland and also in England they are served with Sunday roast with gravy.
These sound so cool! I’ve definitely got to try making these.
It is great to have a different pancake to make. Enjoy experimenting and creating different dishes.
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We’ve made the yorkshire puddings for our Christmas dinner (along with the prime rib); served with gravy. They seemed more like a popover (crispier and no sweetness whatsoever). When our kids were really little I made the pancakes in the blender, then poured the batter in a 9×13, which had half a cube of melted butter in the pan. As soon as they came out of the oven, I would squeeze a fresh lemon all over it, and sprinkled with powdered sugar (this made the center fall, but the sides stayed puffy). As the kids got older we made variations. One of the their favorites was when their dad made German apple pancakes. They are yummy but very sweet (not good for diabetics).
I can’t believe that you had 134 comments! Did you hear about blogging and being safe. The link is http://www.ksl.com; it’s from a news channel that did a piece on blogging safety…quite enlightening! Loved the muffin pan idea! Sorry, didn’t mean to write a novel!
I made these after finding your recipe a while back. I added a little bit of Pampered Chef cinnamon plus to the mix and wow, they were awesome! Thanks for sharing such fun and easy goodness. =)
This is about the same recipe as the one I call Dutch Bunny (don’t know where the name came from). Only I melt bacon grease (I know, I know, but not a lot) in an iron skillet and pour the batter into it while it’s hot. Makes a crispier edge and still puffs up like crazy. Oh, I want some.
Oh thank god for stumbleupon! I’m seriously due for grocery shopping and I wasn’t in the mood to thaw any meat out and take the time to cook it and then I came across this. It was super easy to make and clean up (always a bonus point for me). I only had frozen strawberries but I heated them up with a little water, some honey, and a little bit of vanilla and it was AWESOME. Thanks!
I love this idea! Thanks so much!
They are cute.
These are very similar to (or the same as) a Scandinavian concoction called ebel skivvers. The ones I had were slightly lemony, and we ate them with butter. They were made in what looked like a cast iron muffin tin, over a gas range, and flipped using crochet needles!
What a great idea! I would have never thought to cook pancakes this way. Thanks for posting this. I’m going to bookmark your site and have a look around later when I have time.
what a great idea and they look like they are just the right size for the kids. every one can have there favorite filling and just think no arguing. have you ever tried adding cinnamon to the batter?
I make popovers and puffed pancakes. I put blueberries and powdered sugar over the puffed pancakes, and I make that in a big glass pie plate. I make the popovers in the muffin tins. For both of mine, I melt the butter in the plate/tins in the oven first before adding the batter.
I did NOT know that’s what Yorkshire puddings are, and I’ve always wondered what Toad in a Hole was! How fun! Putting sausages and/or gravy on popovers sounds so delicious. . . .
These look like yorkshire puddings to me.
I finally tried these today–YUM! They reminded me of the popovers I’ve had by Jordan Pond in Acacia Park (in Maine)–one of my favorite memories! Thanks for the recipe!
I always make German pancakes many years but I never think of using muffin pan.
MY QUESTION IS: Can I freeze some of Pop Up Pancakes?
If so, how long will they be last?
Thanks for your response.
I know most German pancakes work fine with soy milk.
I’m so excited to make these.
And here’s a guilty question. When I do crafts with my kids in the morning, it seems like they spend the rest of the entire day asking me to do more projects with them. Since I have a newborn and some part-time work hours to get in each day, this isn’t possible. So I feel like by doing an activity with them, I’m almost just setting them up for disappointment later in the day and me up for nagging. Do you have any thoughts on this? Obviously I’m not going to sacrifice the activities to avoid the nagging…but sometimes I might want to…
Its funny…..Ive been making these and eating these for as long as I can rememeber…Yorkshire puddings….Toad in the hole (or frog on the road if it doesnt rise!) and now I find they are worldwide with some great names! YEY to the humble Pud!!!!
Oh and to spin a Toad in the hole…I use lamb chops oinons and mint ….yummy yumm yum
We always called these Dutch Babies when I was a kid. Yummy!
as an english person… i can saftely say, youve “invented” yorkshire puddings, an essential part of a sunday roast ( although i do remember my sister eating leftover ones with jam and cream as dessert!)
In England we call these Yorksshire puddings and traditionally eat them with roast beef. Just thought you might fins that interesting.
I love them with gravy, but my grandad would always tell me that when he was little he’d eat them with golden syrup and custard which seemed amazing, so I’m totally trying them as a dessert!
These sound delicious! Looking forward to trying them!
Can this work with a pancake mix?
Jessica – I’ve never tried to cook pancakes in a muffin tin, so I’m not sure. Sounds like it would cook up, but I doubt it would puff up like these Pop Ups, as they use different ingredients than pancakes. I may have to try it though or if you do, let me know how it goes.
And yes, I realize now that this recipe is similar to Yorkshire Puddings. I grew up with this recipe as a child only as a breakfast item. But I’m excited to try them savory next time! Thanks everyone!!
to the idiots who say “you’ve invented yorksure puddings” are wrong.
yorksure puddings look similar but require that the muffin tins be filled and heated (until the oil begins to smoke) first before batter is added and cooked.
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How could one person know every variety of everything from around the world. It’s a big place and humans are ingenious when it comes to food.
In the same way that Brits now often eat turkey with cranberry sauce on Christmas day, maybe we can share our custom of eating pop-up pancakes with a roast dinner with those on the other side of the pond.
In the UK we call these Yorkshire Puddings and eat them with roast beef! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Roastbeef_with_yorkshire_puddings.jpg
Ah! I now realise I was far from being the first person to say that. Oops!
I finally made the pancakes (actual pancakes, not the popup pancakes) in a muffin tin and they worked out great! I baked them 16 minutes at 400 degrees. So yummy and I could focus on making eggs or bacon while they cooked.
These are very similar to “Yorkshire puddings”
I grew up calling these german pancakes too. I love putting these in muffin tins! The edges were always my favorite so now everyone can have an edge. What a great idea!
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