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Hi Bold Bakers!
Do you love breakfast pastries? How about 2 delicious breakfast foods combined into 1 to make the Ultimate Pancake Creation: Cinnamon Rolls Pancakes!!!
These Cinnamon Roll Pancakes have the soft texture you know and love from a pancake with all the flavors of Cinnamon Rolls. It is 2 for the price of 1.
Gemma’s Pro Chef Tips
- If you don’t have a piping bag for the cinnamon filling, you can also use a squeeze bottle or a ziplock bag with a small corner snipped off.
- When mixing the batter, take care not to over mix which will toughen the pancakes. The batter should have a few small lumps remaining.
- When cooking the pancakes, keep the heat on low to medium-low or the outside of the pancakes can burn before the inside is set.
- This recipe does not need to be served with syrup because the filling and glaze add plenty of sweetness. If you would rather serve these with syrup, just leave off the glaze.
- For more festive pancake ideas, try our Pumpkin Pancakes or our Chocolate Pancakes!
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Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
Learn how to make my Cinnamon Roll Pancakes recipe featuring ribbons of cinnamon and a sweet, cream cheese glaze frosting.
Servings: 8
Learn how to make my Cinnamon Roll Pancakes recipe featuring ribbons of cinnamon and a sweet, cream cheese glaze frosting.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
Cinnamon Filling
- ½ cup (3 oz/85 g) dark brown sugar (not packed)
- ¼ cup (2 oz/57 g) butter, melted
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
Cream Cheese Glaze
- ¼ cup (2 oz/57 g) butter, melted
- ¼ cup (2 oz/57 g) cream cheese, at room temperature
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup (3 oz/85 g) powdered sugar, sifted
Pancake Batter
- 1 cup (5 oz/142 g) all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (8 floz/240 ml) whole milk
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1 tablespoon canola or vegetable oil
- Butter, for cooking
Instructions
Make the Cinnamon Filling
- In a medium bowl, stir together the brown sugar, butter and cinnamon. Scoop the filling into a piping bag fitted with a small round tip. Set aside.
Make the Cream Cheese Glaze
- In a small bowl, whisk the butter, cream cheese and vanilla extract together until smooth, then stir in the powdered sugar. Set aside.
Make the Pancakes
- Place a large, nonstick pan over medium-low heat.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a separate jug, whisk the milk, egg and oil together, then stir this into the dry ingredients until the batter is mostly incorporated but still has a few small lumps remaining.
- Brush the warm pan with butter and scoop on ⅓ cup (2 ½ oz/71 g) of batter.
- When the batter begins to bubble (after 1-2 minutes), pipe on the cinnamon filling in a swirl pattern, starting at the center and moving outwards. Continue cooking the pancake for 1-2 minutes, or until the bubbles begin popping on top of the pancake and it's golden brown on the bottom. Flip and cook the other side for another 1-2 minutes, until golden.
- Transfer the pancake to a plate, cinnamon swirl side up. Cover with a clean tea towel to keep warm while you continue cooking the remaining pancakes.
- Just before serving, drizzle with the cream cheese glaze.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. Rewarm gently in the microwave for about 15 seconds before serving
Can I use white sugar instead of brown sugar. Please answer
Delicious! I like it! Thanks your sharing! I will make it follow introduction of you!
These are absolutely amazing, and my whole family LOVES them… even my granddaughter who doesn’t normally care for pancakes!!! A word of advice though, if you use a baggie to pipe the cinnamon, sugar and butter mixture, please make sure that you don’t cut the hole too large, like I did the first time! They were still very good, but more difficult to cook with the swirls too big.????
Hi. I love your website. I have a few questions about this recipe:
1. Could I substitute vanilla sugar for vanilla extract? (And if so, how much?)
2. Could I use margarine instead of butter, and would it be as good?
3. I have cocoa powder and was wondering if I could also make a chocolate variation. How would you recommend I do it?
Hi Gemma! I was wondering why the ingredients in the video and on the website is different? Which one should I follow? Thanks ????
can i use condensed milk as a substitute to egg?
The video has different ingredients
How can I get the whole recipe page to stop flipping back to the top of the page? It seems nearly impossible to get the thing to hold still long enough to read and prepare the recipe. It has flipped to the top 3 times while I’ve been typin (oops4) this message.
Hello, I just tried this recipe and it was wonderful, Im not from Europe and Ive never tried cinnamon rolls but I wanted to eat some for breakfast. Since I didnt want to wait for the dough to raise and all that, I choose this recipe instead and wow the pancake batter is amazingly soft and moist, I just love it, Im going to make that more often. Thank you for sharing this recipe with us.
The cinnamon swirl cooked off/out of my recipe, any suggestions.