Pop Up Pancakes
May 14th, 2008 by Marie
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?
I’m thrilled to see this idea! When I was growing up my mom made German Pancakes every once in a while in a big pie plate, and I loved watching them puff up in the oven–and eat them, too. I can’t wait to try this version for my kids. Thanks!
Yum! I love this idea. I know my kids would love them. Thanks!
oh man..do you think this would work with soy milk???
Sometimes (well most of the time) I hate being lactose intolerant!
Peanut butter & applesauce is a favorite. Also, I just recently discovered a combo of cream cheese, raspberry syrup & whip cream. Oh, my! Very good.
OOOOooohhh, these look so yummy! I think I have my dinner for tonight! On french toast I love applesauce and powdered sugar, and I am sure that they would be a great match for these little yummies.
Thanks for the recipe!
I love german pancakes. It’s great that you can eat them for breakfast or dinner! I think we have waffles with strawberries and cool whip at least once a week for breakfast or dinner.
YUM!!!! I am totally making these yummy pancakes this weekend… I love a new fast breakfast idea. thanks!
We LOVE German pancakes, but that is such a fun idea to make them in muffin tins! I’m so excited to try this!
We call ‘em Dutch Babies and love ‘em!
I LOVE this idea. If I hadn’t made pancakes for dinner last night, I’d be making these tonight. I make breakfast for dinner all the time, and my husband doesn’t love it like I love it. But it is quick and easy. But last night everyone was eating and I was still flipping pancakes. So I REALLY love this idea. Thanks for sharing.
LOVE this idea! banana slices, peanut butter, and syrup is quite yummy. what kind of muffin tins do you use? mine always seem to get rust spots and i don’t like using them without a liner. thanks for you great ideas. i just LOVE your blog!!
We came home at lunch time and I saw this post… Guess what we were doing five minutes later? I halved the recipe, and we did an impromptu “Bake and Take!” We loved making them almost as much as we loved eating them (with vanilla yogurt, strawberries, and powdered sugar). Yum! Thanks for the delicious inspiration.
They look delicious! Thanks for helping me decide what to make for dinner tonight! :)
My family always cooked them in a 9×13 pan and calls them hootananny pancakes. We always eat them Christmas morning. I’m excited to try them in a jelly roll pan or muffin tins. We also love our with lemon juice and powdered sugar. It’s great.
Breakfast for dinner is the best!
This reminds me of another recipe where you let me see if I can remember…you butter whole wheat bread slices then press it into the muffin tins, bake for 3 minutes. Then you put in each bread cup, a slice of ham and then crack an egg on top, salt and pepper. Then you cook fro 10-15 minutes more and sprinkle a little cheese on top! It is yummy. I don’t like sunny side eggs though so I scramble the egg a little bit before I put it on.
I’m just happy that Jordan made it on the blog!
What a great twist!! We call these Ocean Pancakes. My mom called them German pancakes when we were little, but it always looked like ocean waves coming over the edge of the pan to me so I started calling them ocean pancakes and it stuck! I love the idea of doing it in muffin tins. I’d love to know what kind of tins you use…I’ve never really had good luck.
Although it’s ‘wacky waffle wednesday’ I’m sure my little ones would have no problem forgoing the waffles for these cuties. Now I just have to go get eggs..I used to make something similar in just one big pan but never thought of using muffin tins. Thanks much!
I love these. I used to have them as a kid all the time. I never thought of putting them in muffin tins. Hmmmm…We’ll have to try it.
Thanks!
That husband of yours looks mighty fine ;)
I’m with Ashley- I love my breakfast starches (pancakes, waffles, french toast) with lemon juice and powdered sugar. I keep wondering if I could make a simple syrup from sugar, water, and lemon juice but haven’t tried it yet!
Jos - I have actually made these with Lactaid before and they came out great. I am sure Soy milk would work as well.
OTJenH - I love the term Bake and Take! I am going to have to use that for my recipe posts. Thanks.
Becky - Jordan needed some picture love.
And Jordan - You are mighty fine!
Myrnie Twin - I have made a syrup before from powdered sugar and lemon juice as a frosting for a cake. Mix the two together with a little water to your thickness. That would be tasty on these! Good idea.
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Growing up we called them “Puffed Pancakes” and we too did lemon juice and powdered sugar, but I was never a fan of that, but now I love strawberries and powdered sugar or whipping cream with them, so yummy. But what a brilliant idea to put them in muffin tins!
Here is another yummy recipe for a version of these, they are way up there on my list of favorite breakfast foods.
Apple Puffed Pancake
6 eggs
1 ½ cups milk
1 cup flour
3 Tbls sugar
1 tsp vanilla
½ tsp salt
½ tsp cinnamon
1 cube butter
2 apples peeled & sliced
3 Tbls brown sugar
Preheat oven to 425. In a blender or large bowl, mix eggs, milk, flour, sugar, vanilla, salt and cinnamon until well blended. Melt butter in a 9×13” pan in oven, add apple slices to baking dish and return to oven until butter sizzles, do not let it brown. Remove dish from oven and immediately pour batter over apples. Sprinkle with brown sugar and bake for 20 minutes or until puffed and brown, Serve immediately.
droolicious. i’ve had an apple-y version of this and loved it. i always had the idea that making them was a production. but i can make them in muffin tins? i will be consuming them with much greater frequency.
Thanks for the recipe. We had them for dinner tonight. YUMMY!
Wow! These look so delicious. Thanks for this great post. I am have a lot of strawberries in my fridge I am making these tonight!
who knew pancakes could get better and cuter!
I’ll have to give these a try, the kids will love them
We love german pancakes! I have never thought to do them in muffin tins — we will totally be trying this.
I like to make things a little more healthy if I can and have found that if I use whole wheat pastry flour (different from plain whole wheat flour) and egg beaters if I have them the pancakes turn out delicous and puff up really well.
As for toppings, we love strawberries, powdered sugar, and low-sugar syrup. Or pure maple syrup if we’re feeling fancy :).
Beck — couldn’t agree more. I think Danny was even more excited than I was to see Jordan on the blog.
Way to go Mr. Marie! You done gude. ;)
And Mariiiiieeeeee… (please sing that in the voice your mom used to answer the phone…) well, I love this idea… do you think it would work in muffin cups too… or would that just be a waste? I love the idea of the muffin tins… Danny loves german pancakes (or whatever we’re calling them)… so I am going to do this for a Saturday brunch.
THX for the great idea.
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Just found your site via Tastespotting. What an ingenious idea. I happen to have some fresh strawberries I’d like to use. Dinner tomorrow…set! :)
Hmm lovely pancakes!
And I like that it is easy to scale! I’m the only one in the house who eats pancakes…so I might have to scale them by 1/6!
Hi Marie
I have just come over from Today’s Creative Blog where you were featured today. Congratulations!! As a mum with a toddler and our second baby due in June, I am always excited to “meet” other mums who are keen to try out arts and crafts with their young family.
You have certainly come up with brilliant ideas. Later tonight when my little girl is asleep, I plan to come back and visit your blog so I can have a good read through past posts.
Warmest wishes
Elise
Oh, I love, love, love to have breakfast for dinner!! The idea to use muffin tins is genius!! Thanks so much.
ohhh i’m going to have to try these this weekend when my nephews come over!! their mom always makes breakfast for dinner once a week, so i will pass your site along!
alright then i’m making these tonight for dinner then. mmm.
We make these almost every Saturday morning - we call them Dutch Babies! Here’s my recipe: http://simplemom.net/dutch-babies/
Love your blog design!
We are having this for dinner tonight! Thanks they look yummy.
The moment I’ve finished my comment I’ll be hauling my laptop over the the kitchen counter to make these yummies for dinner. No strawberries on hand, how about blueberries?
Fantastic blog, by the way!
My family gets together and eats these on Conference morning at my mom’s house. My brother started us eating them with sweetened condensed milk drizzled over the top with powdered sugar or whip cream and strawberry’s. So good. I like your version in the muffin tins.
yum, Audrey has an egg allergy; so I’ve missed eating stuff like this. sometimes I make things like this, but feel bad for her when she has to eat something different. I always try to make her something that looks like what the others have though; we make pancakes with bananas instead of eggs; they are heavier, but taste good. hopefully she’ll grow out of it soon.
I am so glad most of you will be making these yummies for dindin!
Aimee - I have been able to substitute the milk for soy and even cut out the butter completely. If there is an egg substitute, you could try it. Maybe just the egg whites? I don’t know how far an egg allergy goes. Or you could cut the recipe in half and make them for yourself for lunch!
I am SO making these tomorrow for Sunday breakfast for the fam. The kids will LOVE them. Im thinking Peanut Butter with drizzles of honey or with PB with chunk of bananas. Or.. Or .. Or. Thanks for the recipe. YUM!
Hi Marie,
That is a great recipe and we also called them pop up’s or rather, Popeye they became through one of the kids. I loved the idea to do them in a muffin tin. This is quite the site. Wow, I am so impressed, you must be a very busy woman. Thanks for the note on my little blog. It is great to hear from old friends!
Michelle
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These look so delicious!
These look amazing! I can’t wait to try them… hopefully this weekend! :)
we call them monsters, cuz in the oven they look like scary monsters growing.
love the muffin tin idea, so doing it tonight.
Oh yum! Thanks for the recepie, these look great and seem fairly easy.
I like to top my pancakes with agave and bananas… sometimes almond butter.
AWESOME recipe! Making them for dinner tonight (right now they’re baking- can’t wait!) I used 2 round cake pans instead of a 9″x13″ or muffin tins hoping they come out as yummy as your muffin tin ones look! I put a cookie sheet on the rack below them just in case the pans are too small (I don’t think they will be, but I’m a little paranoid) ^_^ Wish me luck!
can’t believe I never thought of putting these in muffin tins…what a GREAT idea!!!
We just got back from Amsterdam where pancakes are king. My favorite was recalled by the recipe above for pancakes with baked apples…. and in Amsterdam, they added cooked bacon. Yummy!!
My Grandmother called them popovers. We do them in a 425 oven and in muffin tins. What we called German pancakes aka “skinnies” are more crepes … has anyone read the “Cake DR.” ?? great ideas.
Congratulations! You’ve just reinvented Yorkshire pudding!
I made these this morning, and they came out perfectly. Delicious, light and fluffy! I made a warm simmered compote of sliced apples, blueberries and cranberry sauce with some real maple syrup, butter and vanilla for a topping, then a sprinkle of powdered sugar too. OMG! Soooo good! Thanks for this recipe. My son is going to Germany with his class in August, and this was a lovely German recipe to try as the excitement builds! :-)
My husband laughs because I love pancakes, any time of the day…it doesn’t matter. I will eat cold, leftover pancakes right out of the fridge for a snack. These look amazing! I totally want to try these.
Angie
This looks yummy. It inspired me to get my lazy buns into the kitchen. Thanks a bunch.
These are just popovers, and you don’t have to load them with syrup or any other breakfast crap. If you serve them with butter at dinner, you’ll be eating a rather refined take on the dinner roll. A lot of higher tier restaurants make them.
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We made these in my cooking class, but we put chocolate chips in them and whipped cream and strawberries on them. I like the muffin tin idea though I’ll have to try that.
In England we call these yorkshire puddings, we have them with roast beef, mashed potatoes, vegetables and english gravy - that what we call a roast dinner.
They are a savoury delicacy, it seems strange to make them sugary sweet but im gonna try it anyway.
These look absolutely delicious! I think I will try them tonight! :)
They look yummy! and so simple. I can think of 100 toppings for those instantly and only 90 of them include chocolate
You mean Yorkshire puddings, surely? Like you have with a roast?
Wow thats great i was wondering if you guys could give me a little ideas for fruit substitutes.
how do you make them with bananas?
I always called them nanners!
If any body could tell me how… !!!!!
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I like this recipe. A cool twist to traditional pancakes. I’ll have to make some sometime. =]
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hi, we have these in britain, we call them yorkshire puddings and eat them with a sunday roast, or sausage and mash.
to a british mind this looks kind of like roast potatoes with whipped cream or something. weird :P
might be nice though!
every heard of yorkshire puddings? dicky
what is a yorkshire pudding?
Are they good?
do they taste the same?
Are they the same?
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mm we’ve always called these popovers at the camp I worked at. I haven’t made them myself before and I am definitly going to try it =]
lovely.. actually there is some difference between these German pancakes & Yorkshire puddings(popovers).. it’s in the baking.. with Yorkshire puddings, you add oil to the pans & heat the pans before adding the batter.
love this idea! similar to german oven pancakes but in muffin tin!
Yes
In the UK we could these Yorkshire Puddings, and they are a traditional accompaniment for roast beef, obviously without anything sweet on them. In Yorkshire they are often served as a dish in there own right, smothered in gravy and often served as a starter, again before a traditional roast, usually though this is a larger version maybe 6 inches across. For a cheap dish that kids love, brown some sausages and drop them into the batter before cooking, again this is often done in a larger dish although it works well with little puddings too - just cut em up a bit first, the batter rises up around the sausage so its sitting in a little hole, we call this Toad in the Hole, Yummy!
I was just about to comment but I see Jez said what I wanted to say. These are just like Yorkshire puddings. I eat these with mince ‘n’ tatties!
Like carol said though, there is a very slight difference in the way they’re cooked. With the hot oil and so on.
i like it, i’ll definately try it.
Oh dear - are people really as illiterate as they appear?
We made these twice over the long weekend:-)
I actually made them the night before and put them in the fridge for Friday morning. They were just as good warmed up!
The popovers sound delicious But when you add the topping lemon juice and powered sugar do you mix them?
What a GREAT idea! I love this - grew up on these myself but this puts a great new twist on them, thanks!
I will have to make these for my boyfriend sometime, he is not a fan of breakfast for dinner but he loves pancakes… and I hate the mess of them and the fact that I have to make mine first and they get cold or make mine last and he is already done eating T_T So this will be great! Thank you for the recipe!!!
These are also called yorkshire puddings!! Traditionally served with a roast beef dinner. Yum Yum
Great idea! I love german pancakes and I love things individually-sized…and you put the two together! I can’t wait to try them.
What a great idea…love it!!!
I like my pancakes with peanut butter and syrup and love my waffles with brown sugar, butter and chocolate chips. Hmmm.
Yes, they are usually savoury in the UK and go well with gravy in any form, but we like left-over ones spread with a little cream cheese. They have to be slightly over-cooked, though, for the perfect crispy crunch oozing cool cheese!
Alternatively, if you sweeten the batter slightly (add some icing sugar to the flour) then you can add soft fruit to the bottom of each mould before you bake. Something like stoned cherries or plums works well. This is a French dish called clafoutis [cla-foo-tee].
I’ve made these 3 times now. I love em! I use lemon zest and lavender. Afterwards, I put a little extra butter and powdered sugar. Too bad they lose their puffiness after they come out of the oven.
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I have a couple questions, if I may. I baked these scrumptious little delights this morning and my kids absolutely LOVED them. We put a bit of maple syrup, whipped cream and strawberries on them. YUM!!!
I made 24 from the original recipe, but it looks like you have more batter in your muffin tin than I did. I love pictures!!!! I had to spoon some batter from the other tins into the 8 remaining spots just to fill the 24. I’d say each tin was 1/4 full.
When they came out of the oven they scrunched up into little balls and pulled away from the sides a lot. Each of the kids ate 3, I ate 2 and my husband and friend ate 2 each. Everyone was still hungry because they were so small. Did I do something wrong?
On your plate it looks like they cover the whole plate…and in your tins they look huge (compared to mine).
I am definitely going to make these again but I’ll triple the recipe!! LOL
Recipe I used:
1 cup flour
1 cup milk
6 eggs
1/4 cup butter (melted)
dash of salt
cook for 15 min at 400*
Mixed very well in my blender.
Thanks for any help or you know…just letting me know I did everything right. ;)
Hi, these are just Yorkshire Puddings. A traditional Yorkshire… well pudding. We east them with roast dinners mainly, covered in gravy wih veg or whatever.
I just made these for my boyfriend and I :)
I made them in the 9×13 pan, and I have a feeling that I didn’t cook them enough, but they seemed pretty heavy & eggy…
The sides did puff up nicely however :)
Either way, they were fantastic and we had them with boysenberry syrup, powdered sugar and frozen blueberries!
Thank you for the fantastic recipe! :D
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I made these this morning and they were yummy. We just had them with syrup. yum..
yes, they are similar to Yorkshire puddings which you serve with gravy etc… but give these a try with syrup or whatever.. very good…
They called Yorkshire Puddings here in UK…One of the best parts of a propper British Sunday Roast. with Beef or Chicken and loads of gravy… :) I’ve never tried them as a sweet before…Might do that sometimes though.
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Those look so delicious and simple to make. I can’t wait to try them!
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Looks delicious. I can’t cook well or make any cookies. But I love browsing and searching for cooking recipe. Hope one day, I can learn to cook well and make bread. That’s really nice.
i dunno if this has been asked/answered yet, but can we do this with just-add-water pancake mix??
I love breakfast too. I can’t wait to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing.
i saw this recipe using stumbleupon and knew right away i wanted to try it. i am a college student with a tiny kitchen and not too many resources, but even i had all the ingredients! plus, these little things are delicious and so chic looking. i had friends over and served them three days in a row! once for breakfast and twice for dessert! we like them best with fresh strawberries softened with a little brown sugar and powdered sugar on top. thanks!
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…?
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
Those are basically Yorkshire Puddings, here in Ireland and also in England they are served with Sunday roast with gravy.