German Apple Pancake – Barefeet within the Kitchen

Overlook about leftovers with this recipe for German Apple Pancakes. You received’t consider how straightforward it’s to make such a delicious breakfast deal with.

German Pancakes with Apples

I added apples to a batch of those pancakes for the primary time over ten years in the past and my household went completely loopy over them. I made this recipe one morning a few weeks in the past to reshoot the photographs and fell in love with these pancakes once more.

I loved the German apple pancakes a lot that I’ve already made them once more for household dinner. Whether or not it’s my grandmother’s traditional recipe or a grain and gluten free variation, we simply plain love German pancakes.

For a enjoyable change, strive making miniature German pancakes in a muffin tin or these cranberry almond German pancakes in the course of the holidays. (You already know I can by no means have sufficient cranberry recipes!) Nevertheless you make them, they’re all the time scrumptious.

My grandmother handed down a recipe for sweet orange sauce that has grow to be conventional in my household when consuming German pancakes. I really like that sauce, each as a result of it’s scrumptious, and since it jogs my memory of her.

However, truthfully, I like these German pancakes with apples greatest on their very own. Candy sufficient from the apples, all of the completed pancake required was a light-weight dusting of powdered sugar. (My youngsters certain do like them with a drizzle of maple syrup although.)

A phrase of warning while you’re making the apples for these pancakes, you could need to make additional. It’s exhausting to withstand tasting a number of straight from the saucepan–simply strive to not eat all of them earlier than you’ll be able to bake the pancakes!

Apple Dutch Child

Relying on the place you’re from, you would possibly know these pancakes by a special identify. I’ve heard them referred to as Dutch infants and Dutch puffs, and so they’re additionally fairly much like popovers.

The Dutch child apple pancake highlights the fabulous sweetness and taste of the fruit, a lot as you would possibly discover in an apple pie. However the apple Dutch child recipe has so much much less added sugar.

We would have completely different names for this recipe, however anybody who tastes a Dutch apple pancake calls it scrumptious. Gentle and ethereal due to the way in which that the egg puffs up within the oven, and with an limitless array of accessible toppings, it is a breakfast I’ll fortunately eat as usually as potential.

German Apple Pancake Recipe

You’ll want the next components to make this recipe:

• apple
• lemon juice
• milk
• eggs
• butter
• flour
• salt and floor cinnamon
• mild brown sugar and powdered sugar

To start this recipe, preheat the oven to 500°F. Add the apples, sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice to a small saucepan. Prepare dinner over medium warmth, stirring sometimes, till golden brown–about 5 minutes.

Whereas the apples are cooking, whisk collectively the flour, salt, and milk. Add the eggs, then whisk once more and put aside. Place the butter in a glass pie plate and soften it within the oven, this could take about 2 minutes.

When the butter has melted, rigorously take away the recent dish from the oven and switch it in your palms to coat the underside and sides. Add the apples to the dish and unfold them out on the underside. Pour the pancake combination over the apples.

Return the pan to the oven and cut back warmth to 425°F. Bake for 18 minutes; the perimeters of the pancake will rise over the rim of the pie plate and brown barely.

Take away from the oven and place a big plate on high of the pancake. Invert the pie dish over the plate to launch the pancake. Mud them generously with powdered sugar, slice, and serve.

I triple this recipe for my household and it simply serves six. When making this, I divide the tripled recipe between a pie plate (⅓ of the combination) and a 9×13 baking dish (2/3 of the combination).

German Apple Pancakes

In case you favored these German apple pancakes, and need to strive another breakfasts with apples, you’ve acquired to present this old fashioned apple crisp, a strive. It’s actually fantastic. (And sure, an apple crisp could be breakfast. Oats + apples = my form of method to begin the day.)

You additionally would possibly like this recipe for apple cinnamon oatmeal. (I really like a hearty bowl of steaming scorching oatmeal!) However I additionally like the feel oatmeal will get when it’s baked, like on this apple pie baked oatmeal.

I’m contemplating these apple cinammon muffins for my subsequent breakfast. The recipe jogs my memory of banana bread, which I like.

initially revealed 7/12/12 – recipe notes and photographs up to date 5/10/23