Here’s a fun breakfast you can make this weekend. My family love German Pancakes (at our house they are called Hootenannies). So when I saw the idea of making mini ones at a site called Gimme Some Oven I had to try them.
Her recipe is basically the same as the one I make in my 9 x 13 pan, but you add the butter to the batter instead of the pan. She also adds vanilla and orange zest. I add the vanilla, but didn’t have any orange to zest in my fridge. I do want to try it one time with the orange zest though. Sounds yummy!
The great thing about the minis is they turn out as perfect little cups just right to fill with fruit. I made a triple berry sauce to put in mine. I also have a German pancake type dish you fill with a peach/sausage filling. You could make that filling with diced peaches and slice the sausage small and fill this minis up with that too. Gimme Some Oven filled them with strawberries and syrup. I have a great strawberry topping that I made for french toast that would also be yummy. You add orange zest to the strawberries along with some sugar. So yummy. This was a fun new way to make something that I mad all the time. You could also do this for a holiday breakfast and have a bunch of toppings to choose from. Very fun!
I also made mine in my Demarle muffin tin, so no need for greasing here. I loved how they work in that pan. The came out perfect and there was little to clean up. I f want to know more about my Demarle pan you can see more HERE.
Mini German Pancakes
1 cup milk
6 eggs
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. orange zest (optional)
1/4 cup butter, melted
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Blend first six ingredients (milk thru orange zest) in a blender. Be careful to see that any flour clumps get well-blended.
- Blend in butter a little at a time in order to temper the eggs.
- Grease muffin tins well and distribute batter evenly between 24 tins (I did more like 18. Gimme Some Oven’s tins were slightly less than half-full. I used a 1/4 cup measuring cup and filled it almost full.) Bake for 15 minutes, or until puffy and golden on top.
- Served with your favorite toppings. (Mine was a dusting of powdered sugar and triple berry sauce. I have other suggestions up top)
Mine also turned out deflated
Any tips for this? Instead of using the fruit topping, I decided to have some chocolate ice cream. 
) Yummy!
I just made these and one word of warning – watch them! I just set the timer for 15 and we ended up a little more well done than I would have liked! My fault entirely – I don’t want other people to make the same mistake.
Hi! Just found this from Tatertots & Jello’s blog. Great idea! Every year on New Year’s Day, my family has a “Dutch Babies” brunch. they are German pancakes cooked in small cast iron pans. We have been doing this for about 30 years. I love the idea of the mini’s. Thanks so much
This is such a great idea for something easy and just a tad different! I’ll for sure be trying these!
I made these this morning for the kiddos with gluten free flour and coconut milk (I kept the butter in, couldn’t take away all the fun!) And they were delicious! Both of my boys ate until they couldn’t. They didn’t look quite as cute as the picture, but they did cave down enough to make little bowls for the fruit topping. Num num num!!
Love this recipe…following you on Twitter now and Liked your facebook page…hope you will join our SOUP’s ON: What’s For Dinner? Group on Facebook as well. https://www.facebook.com/groups/SoupsOn/
Made these tonight for desert, very yummy. Served with the berry sauce and freshly whipped cream. Mine did not turn out like cups though? Looked more like Yorkshire puddings.
Sounds and looks awesome, but… After 1h of thinking about that, I still don’t know how these turn out with this shape. How does the whole form?
I look forward to trying this. I fill my German Pancakes with sauteed apples with cinnamon and brown sugar.
These were wonderful! Of course, mine looked nothing like your picture, but they tasted so good, it didn’t matter! I used apples, almost like a stovetop applesauce, to top mine with, and they were a huge hit. I will be making these again for sure!
Our family loves “Dutch Babies”/”German Pancakes.” My kids have always called them “Poof” Pancakes because they poof up when they bake. Love the mini idea!
Well, I am German [Wurzburg] and so was my Berlin born mother. She made German pancakes and this recipe is close,, mostly eggs with sugar and flour, and milk to thin it out.. but we poured them in the pan thinly and flip, spread with fruit filling and roll. Yummy and my children love them. never bothered with the zest.
This looks really yummy and I will try it for sure. But I’m always wondering about that “German” in such recipes. As I’m German, living in Germany and quite familiar with a wide range of very different local German kitchen it seems to me just a name. The food we call in some places “Eierkuchen” (Egg Pancakes) or in other places “Pfannkuchen” (Pancakes) are far nearer to this recipe: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,235,156180-239200,00.html. Sometimes a pinch of baking powder is added. Try to serve with homemade apple butter and a mix of sugar and ground cinnamon – yummy! Nevertheless I’m nosy to taste your version.
Now Dutch Babies are baby sized. A plus is that they bake up much quicker than the full size. Thanks for sharing.
Now Dutch babies really are baby sized. The fact that they take so little time to bake is a huge plus. Thanks for sharing.
I love German pancakes! I’ve been trying to make them for my blog, but haven’t gotten a “picture worthy” one yet. I LOVE this idea of making them tiny! Thanks!
So whenever I make German pancakes, they always peak up really great in the oven, but pretty soon after you take them out they deflate. How do you keep yours so solid?
I think sugar was left out of the recipe because all other German pancake recipes have sugar in them…
Oh my Laura they are gorgeous! Our German site of the family would be very proud of us if we would make these darlings for Christmas….
Herzlichen Dank:)
I’ve seen a few recipes for mini dutch babies online now and none of them look as perfect as yours. I’ve also seen the picture used in this post in other places so I’m wondering if it’s a stock photo or if it’s your picture of dutch babies you made. If the dutch babies in this photo were made by professionals then I can’t compare myself to that. LOL So is this picture yours?
So after you pour it in the muffin tins, do you cut a hole and dig out the inside to put the filling in? I am a little confused
You don’t need to make a hole, it will form as the pancake puffs up. The sides of the pancake will climb the wall of the muffin tin. Mine also settled quite a bit when I pulled them out of the oven.
I made these this morning and they came out pretty well, but be careful not to over beat the eggs! I did and it made the pancakes a bit rubbery. I posted a few pictures on my own blog (linked on my name above).
holy crap that’s a lot of eggs! i wonder why they need so many compared to the 1 or 2 that most pancakes require?!
Deedee – German pancakes are a whole different animal than regular pancakes. They’re kind of like a cross between an omelet and a pancake. At my house, we call them eggy pancakes to differentiate (my grandpa called them Dutch babies, but I don’t know why).
Those look so good and I can’t wait to try them. I would like the Triple Berry Sauce recipe but the link doesn’t work. Could you repost it please?
Thanks.
I wanted to make these today but could not connect to the link for the triple berry sauce or the Strawberry topping. When I click on the links for them, it says it is not found. Can you re-post these? Thanks. They look delicious.
I just made these for breakfast, we ate them all,they were soo good! thanks for sharing this recipe!
These are adorable! And the triple-berry-sauce looks incredible!!
Will have to give it a try.
Oh wow, those are so cute!
I'm definitely going to have to try making these.
(anything with "pancake" in the name is <3, haha)
I guess I was hungry as I read your blog this morning because I went straight to the kitchen and made these! I love the cupcake size! It's perfect! I learned, however, that there is aparently a magic fill-level. Some of mine were fuller than others and they did NOT create the little well. About 1/2 to 2/3 full is probably about right.
Thanks for the great ideas!
Those look yummy. I'll have to try it. Thanks for the inspiration.
Allie, they just baked that way.
Those look great! Did you have to hollow it out to put the sauce in, or did it make a little well while baking?
Holy cats Laura, those look great!
Kimberly,
I am not sure if it was because of the pan or not. I can tell you that I used a straight muffin tin. Most regular muffin tins tapper a little.
Our family calls them "Hootnannies," too. I have no idea where we got the name, though.
I love the idea of mini ones because it's just embarrassing when my husband and I could polish off a whole 9X13 pan by ourselves
Oohh German Pancakes are my favorite, I am going to try these this weekend!
Yours are soo cute. I want to try them for breakfast tomorrow. I looked on the website you got the recipe from and they kind of flattened out. Yours turned out like a nice little bowl. Is that because of the type of pan you used? Is it deeper than a regular muffin tin? I clicked on your other website and looked around at them there. Very interesting stuff, but I'm in TX – a little far to have a party and check the products out. They sound neat though. The thing I don't like about my silicone stuff is that it is too flexible.
Thanks for the great blog!
Auch du lieber! (LOL… that's what my mother would have said if she'd seen these) What a pretty way to serve these yummy little pancakes.
I saw this idea on Make & Takes as well! Love german pancakes! Love the idea of orange zest. Will test it out this weekend!
Those are so beautiful. I am going to give them a try.