Another day of Thanksgiving prep, all checked off! Although I have to admit, I really screwed up the mashed potatoes and had to go out and buy some more… oops! I was trying to do too many things at one time and left them in the oven too long. They weren’t burnt or anything but the flesh was so lumpy when I tried to mash them, it was useless! Lesson learned!
Anyways, I found this recipe in an old cookbook and something about it just sounded delicious. However, the instructions left a lot of room for interpretation like: cook until its done. Huh? No estimate whatsoever? Still, I chose to proceed with it for some reason. I didn’t even ruin it! I have since made it a bunch and I just keep thinking of ways to make it that much better! And who doesn’t love a pancake you don’t have stand over a flip? ME!
I made up a new realm of food: breaksert! Combination of breakfast and dessert! Cinnamon Apple Pancake could be either or both!
Cinnamon Apple Pancake
2-3 apples, peeled and thinly sliced
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup flour
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. brown sugar
dash of salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp + 1 TBL cinnamon
5 TBL butter, divided
2 TBL sugar
*I’ve used brown sugar and white sugar interchangeably in this recipe and I wrote it down the way I think works the best: brown sugar in the batter and white sugar sprinkled on top.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Whisk together milk, flour, eggs, brown sugar, salt, vanilla and 1 tsp cinnamon.
Mix together 2 TBL sugar and 1 TBL cinnamon in a small bowl and set aside. Melt 3 TBL of butter in skillet and saute apple slices for 5-7 minutes with half of sugar mixture.
Pour apples into a greased pie pan and pour batter directly over top. Place in oven for 15 minutes until pancake has risen.
Remove from oven and dot top of pancake with 2 TBL of butter and sprinkle remainder of sugar mix on butter.
Return to oven until brown, about 5 minutes. *My oven has a hot spot in the back so next time I will rotate to avoid the “leaning tower” effect!
Cut and serve! The final product tastes like cinnamon toast on top of a pancake!
- 2-3 apples, peeled and thinly sliced
- ¾ cup milk
- ¾ cup flour
- 2 eggs
- 1½ tsp. brown sugar
- dash of salt
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp + 1 TBL cinnamon
- 5 TBL butter, divided
- 2 TBL sugar
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Whisk together milk, flour, eggs, brown sugar, salt, vanilla, and 1 tsp cinnamon.
- Mix together 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon cinnamon in a small bowl and set aside. Melt 3 tablespoons of butter in skillet. Saute apple slices in butter for 5-7 minutes with half of sugar mixture.
- Pour apples into a greased pie pan and pour batter directly over top. Place in oven for 15 minutes until pancake has risen.
- Remove from oven and dot top of pancake with 2 tablespoons of butter and sprinkle remainder of sugar mix on butter.
- Return to oven until brown, about 5 minutes.
- Cool slightly and cut in pie slices to serve.
Please let me know what you think about the Cinnamon Apple Pancake! I’d love to hear!
This is similar to a recipe I got from Pat Morgan, way back when, called a “Swedish Pancake”.