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    German Pancakes

    Published Jul 23, 2013; Modified May 11, 2023 by Sylvie Taylor

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    Get ready to impress your brunch guests with our delicious German Pancakes recipe! These light pancakes are large like a crepe and perfect for satisfying your sweet tooth. Made with simple ingredients like flour, eggs, and milk, our German Pancakes are a quick and easy way to switch up your breakfast routine. Serve with your favorite toppings, like fresh berries and powdered sugar, and enjoy a hearty, satisfying breakfast. Yes, this recipe is from my lovely mother who has made these pancakes for my brother and I, specifically my brother, more often then I could count on both our fingers and toes.

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    The bench would involve mom at the stove and two plates in rotation between us with sugar and a variety of jams to place on the pancakes before rolling and eating. Thick globs of strawberry jam and you roll them up like a sleeping bag and biting down on the edges and holding down the other end to make sure no globs of jam fall out the bottom.

    As we got older my brother would request these at least once a week, if not most days and being the favorite, he would get his request made on an almost weekly basis and so we have probably consumed our weight in these German Pancakes. I imagine if anyone asked my brother what he would choose to have for dinner every night until his dying day, it would in fact be these pancakes!

    Why you'll love these

    Impressive presentation

    German Pancakes are golden pancakes that look more like thick crepes and don't take long to whip up, making them a perfect option for breakfast or brunches with guests.

    Easy to make

    German Pancakes are quite easy to make and only require a few basic ingredients and some simple preparation steps, you can have a delicious breakfast or brunch ready in no time.

    Deliciously light and fluffy

    German Pancakes are delicious in flavor. Made with eggs, milk, flour, and a touch of sugar and vanilla, these pancakes are perfect for those mornings when you want something a little more special than regular pancakes.

    How to prepare German Pancakes

    • Beat the eggs and sugar: Beat the 5 eggs and sugar until combined.
    • Add the flour and milk: Combine until the mixture is smooth and runs off your whisk easily.
    • Allow to rest: These need 10 minutes to rest.
    • Heat up your frying pan: Add a teaspoon of butter to the frying pan until it's bubbly.
    • Ladle pancake batter into the frying pan: Once a ladleful of pancake batter is inside the frying, tilt in all directions to evenly thin out the batter.
    • Cook until it curls: The pancake will be cooked on one side when the edges begin to curl.
    • Flip it baby: Flip and cook for one minute until the remaining side is golden.
    • Plate it up: Serve onto your serving plate (or see note below to keep warm until it's time to serve).
    • Serve: Smear with strawberry or raspberry jam and roll up or sprinkle over sugar and drizzle over a little lemon juice and enjoy.

    Tips for the best German Pancakes

    Right frying pan temperature: The pan is hot enough when the edges of the pancake curl back after you have flipped it.

    Keeping the pancakes hot: If not eating straight away, preheat the oven while the mixture is resting to 100°C/210F and place each pancake in the oven to keep warm until the stack is complete, then serve.

    Tip regarding the first pancake: A note from the woman herself: "the first pancake has been noted to always be a little different from the rest of the stack, whether it is too thin or thick or cooks oddly. However, the rest always cook fine." The first always look a little different, but taste good anyway 🙂

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    How to make German Pancakes:

    Place the eggs, and sugar in a bowl and stir to combine. Sift the flour into the eggs and add the milk. Mix until combined and smooth.

     

    The mixture should run freely from the spoon, it should be quite a thin batter. Set aside to stand for 10 minutes.

    Place ¼ teaspoon butter into a frying pan and place on medium high heat until the butter bubbles.

    Pour a ladle full of batter into the pan, lift off the heat and swivel the pan around swiftly to spread the batter around the pan.

    Return to the heat until bubbles begin to appear, flip the pancake and cook for a further minute or until lightly browned.

    Continue with the remaining batter.

    Serve immediately.

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    German Pancakes

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    • Author: Sylvie Taylor
    • Prep Time: 15 minutes
    • Cook Time: 20 minutes
    • Total Time: 35 minutes
    • Yield: Makes 8 pancakes
    • Category: Breakfast
    • Cuisine: German Food
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    Description

    Classic and crepe like German pancakes are large and eggy, but a stack of these will fill you up and are unfussy.


    Ingredients

    5 eggs
    100 grams / ½ cup superfine/caster sugar
    160 grams / 1 cup plain flour
    80 milliliters / ⅓ cup milk


    Instructions

    1. Place the eggs, and sugar in a bowl and stir to combine. Sift the flour into the eggs and add the milk. Mix until combined and smooth.
    2. The mixture should run freely from the spoon, it should be quite a thin batter. Set aside to stand for 10 minutes.
    3. Place ¼ teaspoon butter into a frying pan and place on medium high heat until the butter bubbles.
    4. Pour a ladle full of batter into the pan, lift off the heat and swivel the pan around swiftly to spread the batter around the pan.
    5. Return to the heat until bubbles begin to appear, flip the pancake and cook for a further minute or until lightly browned.
    6. Continue with the remaining batter.
    7. Serve immediately.

    Notes

    Right frying pan temperature: The pan is hot enough when the edges of the pancake curl back after you have flipped it.

    Keeping the pancakes hot: If not eating straight away, preheat the oven while the mixture is resting to 100°C/210F and place each pancake in the oven to keep warm until the stack is complete, then serve.

    Tip regarding the first pancake: A note from the woman herself: "the first pancake has been noted to always be a little different from the rest of the stack, whether it is too thin or thick or cooks oddly. However, the rest always cook fine." The first always look a little different, but taste good anyway 🙂

    Recipe by Roamingtaste (via my lovely mother Gabriela)


    Nutrition

    • Calories: 164 calories per pancake

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    1. Sharkee

      November 18, 2013 at 7:12 pm

      These pancakes sound good. Ure brother sounds like a cool guy. And he knows wat he wants.

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      • Sylvie

        November 19, 2013 at 11:35 am

        From your experience with these pancakes, I'd expect you to say they're better then good.

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