This one is always a crowd pleaser over at the parents! I’ve heard them called German Pancakes, Dutch Baby, and I’m sure there’s more regional names out there also. I’ll post my version below. Be sure to preheat the cast iron you plan to use in the oven as the oven comes to temp. I usually aim for baking at 415F. You want that pan soaking up heat for atleast 20’ before adding the batter, so the batter develops dramatic, poofy, folds from the heat soaked dish. When I use a heavier cast iron pan, that’s really been heat soaked in the preheated oven, I get crazy folds across the whole dish, looks like an abstract wave sculpture or sea coral or something. Very fun indeed!
Combine
– 6 room temp eggs
– 1 cup room temp whole milk
– 1 cup AP flour
Whisk til batter is smooth, then add
– dash of vanilla
– dash of cinnamon, nutmeg to taste
– pinch of salt is key
Next carefully pour the 1/3 stick of melted butter in the empty, preheated cast iron pan. It is going to pop and crackle when the water instantly boils out of the melted butter after hitting the hot pan, sometimes I let the hot pan sit for 1-2 minutes to take some of the extreme heat out before adding the melted butter. Just practice here. Make sure the pan is evenly coated with melted butter, then begin to gently pour the pancake batter into the center, so that it fills the pan evenly.
Place back into oven, leave yourself some head room up top incase you get a huge lift, they really do have a mind of their own.
After removing, you can gently brush with a little more melted butter, or move around some that has pooled on top. I squeeze on a decent amount of fresh lemon, then dust with powder sugar and a little cinnamon, fill with whatever you’ve got after that. Bananas, berries, you can even take the whole dish savory instead if desired.
Each one can be unique. Experiment, with different cast iron pan types, thicker ones vs thinner. Occasionally I’ll be in the mood for a lighter, more crepe like version of the dish, so I’ll use just a bit less flour. It makes the dish surprisingly lighter, but browns quicker. Enjoy!!
by Atoge62
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Looks spectacular!! Great job
Now that looks incredible! Makes me want to bake it
Wow! Like a pancake ouija board
Very similar to a Yorkshire pudding in England. We’d fill that up with sausages, mashed potatoes, peas and onion gravy.
Wow, what lift! Beautiful work.
Is it the size of a typical pizza?
My partner and I frequently make savory Dutch babies. Bacon, goat cheese, caramelized onions and balsamic glaze are great on them!
That’s a very impressive Yorkshire Pudding! Might I suggest you post this on r/casualuk. They may make you an honorary Brit 😬
That looks amazing. I’m still struggling to conquer a gluten free version but this makes me want to keep going.
That looks fantastic! thanks for the recipe.
What do you mean you haven’t posted this over at r/AbsoluteUnits yet?
“Aw, its a premie!”
That doesn’t look like a Dutch baby, that looks like a whole ass Dutch adult. Gorgeous, massive thing.
Nice!! I make them when I really want to wow some people. I usually make a fresh berry compote. Crowd pleaser for sure.
It’s glorious
Please place a real baby, preferably Dutch, inside and take another picture!
Bookmarked! Can’t wait to try this
Looks amazing. I want to try one, but make it savory instead of sweet. Use it to hold a nice stew or chowder.
We love Dutch babies at my house. That’s an awesome poof!
My kids love Dutch babies. We make them regularly. The only thing we do is add butter to the pan while it’s preheating in the I’ve. It melts and gets nice and brown.
I’ve made one once and it was very delicious, but not quite so dramatically poofed as this. I think when I did it some apples were involved as well, though it’s been quite a while. I’m definitely saving to try your tips out sometime.
Lovely!
This is always my go to dinner when I’m home alone.
This looks like the starting stages of Kaiserschmarrn I make in a cast iron pan in the oven before breaking it apart and sprinkling powdered sugar on top (I also leave out the rum-soaked raisins as I don’t like raisins). (This is also understandable why you say some call it a German Pancake as the two are very similar. I am German, so have eaten both often.)
The recipe I use requires one to flip it halfway through baking, though.
Linda Belcher would be proud
Yum!!!!
That’s a double dutch! Made one this morning but I’ll follow your recipe next time because mine lacked that dramatic height
So fun to see. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe and ways. I’d love to try making one! What size pan do you recommend for that amount?!
How long do you bake in oven for? And how do you then actually eat it if sharing between multiple people?
These are great. We also call them German pancakes around here and are great with butter, lemon juice and powdered sugar. One of my favorite breakfasts
I’ve made this for a while, but in a glass cake pan. Also, I melt the butter in the pan while the oven preheats and pour the mix in that instead of melting the butter separately and adding to a preheated pan.
Love making those! Such a delicious and easy breakfast!
Just add lemon juice and powdered sugar 👌
I also love sautéed sliced apples, cinnamon & brown sugar in center of pan before pouring in batter. 👌
Looks perfect, dude!
Interesting side note…my Dutch BF has never seen or heard of these 🤣😂.
He’s flying in from Amsterdam in a few days…I should make one for him.
FYI you can totally make these in a regular pie pan too in case you don’t have a cast iron pan!
We always just melt the butter in the pan as it’s heating.
Oh my, that looks amazing!
I 100% thought that was a Yorkshire pudding until you mentioned the vanilla and cinnamon.
So pretty!!!