German Apple Pancake – Barefeet within the Kitchen

Overlook about leftovers with this recipe for German Apple Pancakes. You received’t imagine 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 images and fell in love with these pancakes another time.

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 conventional recipe or a grain and gluten free variation, we simply plain love German pancakes.

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

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

However, actually, 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 lightweight dusting of powdered sugar. (My youngsters certain do like them with a drizzle of maple syrup although.)

A phrase of warning once you’re making the apples for these pancakes, chances are you’ll wish to make additional. It’s arduous to withstand tasting a couple of straight from the saucepan–simply attempt 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 may know these pancakes by a distinct title. I’ve heard them referred to as Dutch infants and Dutch puffs, they usually’re additionally fairly much like popovers.

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

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

German Apple Pancake Recipe

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

• apple
• lemon juice
• milk
• eggs
• butter
• flour
• salt and floor cinnamon
• gentle 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. Cook dinner over medium warmth, stirring often, 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 new dish from the oven and switch it in your fingers 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 scale 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 prime 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

For those who favored these German apple pancakes, and wish to attempt another breakfasts with apples, you’ve received to present this quaint apple crisp, a attempt. It’s actually fantastic. (And sure, an apple crisp might be breakfast. Oats + apples = my form of solution to begin the day.)

You additionally may like this recipe for apple cinnamon oatmeal. (I like a hearty bowl of steaming sizzling 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 printed 7/12/12 – recipe notes and images up to date 5/10/23}