Apple Pancake Recipe
This apple pancake recipe is something I grew up with. The soft cooked apples are nestled within a delicious batter. They are so good that you can eat them without maple syrup, but why would you want to?
Where, oh Where?
After my grandmother died, her red, handwritten recipe book disappeared. Our family was sad. We lost access to a lot of great recipes.
Not all of them, thankfully because some of her recipes were written down and saved by family members. While others were etched in the memories of those of us who made them fairly often.
I’ve written before that I love breakfast foods for dinner. My all time favorite was when my grandmother would make her pancakes for all of us to eat. We’d have them on her good china and boy, it was a feast.
My nana made a few different varieties: potato pancakes, plain pancakes, and the apple pancakes in today’s post.
I have tried to replicate all three of these different pancakes but I have not been successful.
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Helpful tips
- I make these pancakes with Macintosh apples, but you can make them with any apple you’d make an apple pie with.
- I use spelt flour with a lot of my recipes, but if you only have all purpose white flour, it works perfectly. I’ve never tried to make this recipe with whole wheat but I know it will work.
- If you don’t have a microwave, you can sauté the apples for 3 – 5 minutes. Don’t over cook them, just soften them.
- If you can’t eat these pancakes in one sitting, they store well. Layer them with cut pieces of parchment paper and place in a plastic baggie then put in the fridge.
- They heat up nicely in a toaster oven.
How to make apple pancakes
Pre-step
Get a sauté pan or cast iron griddle and a mixing bowl.
Step one
Gather the ingredients – apples, spelt flour and baking powder.
Step two
Get the wet ingredients – apple, almond milk, water and olive oil. (A)
Step three
Peel the apples and slice them into rings. Take a sharp knife and cut out the core in each apple round. (B)
My grandmother used to have one of these apple corers which I need to buy.
Step four
Microwave the apples for one and a half minutes. You want them to be softened but not soggy. (C)
Step five
Add the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt to the mixing bowl and mix them together.
Step six
Add the egg, milk, water and oil and use a spatula to mix until just combined. (D)
Step seven
Heat the sauté pan on medium. Once it has heated, add a dollop of butter and once it melts, spoon in some batter. I make 4 pancakes at a time.
Step eight
Take an apple ring and place it in the batter in the pan and dribble some more batter on top of it.
Step nine
Once the bottom of the pancakes are browned, flip them over and brown the other side as well.
Repeat until all the batter and apple slices are gone.
I add butter on top but Christopher loves to sprinkle cinnamon on his pancakes.
Time to stack some on a plate.
Christopher, you are needed STAT! This maple syrup won’t pour itself.
Mmmmmm.
Time to cut into them. Look at the apples in the middle.
Both Christopher and I were happy campers!
I hope you enjoyed this apple pancake recipe.
And as always, may all your dishes be delish!
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Bena’s Apple Pancake Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 apples (2 – 3 apples, peeled, sliced in rings and cored)
- 2 cups spelt flour (or whatever flour you prefer)
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cup almond milk (or milk of choice)
- 1/2 cup water (1/4 – 1/2 cups to thin out the batter – use 1/4 cup first)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Butter for pan
Instructions
- Microwave apple rings for 1 – 2 minutes. Soften the apples but don’t make them soggy
- In a mixing bowl, add flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Mix until combined
- Add egg, milk, water and oil. Mix with spatula until combined
- Heat large sauté pan on medium, add butter and melt
- Spoon batter in pan (you want it to be slightly bigger than the apple rounds)
- Press apple in each batter round and dribble more batter on the apple
- Let pancake brown and flip to brown other side
- Butter each pancake and stack until all the batter and apple slices are gone
- Stack at least 4 on your plate
- Pour maple syrup on pancakes
- Eat
- Smile
- Enjoy
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- I make these pancakes with Macintosh apples, but you can make them with any apple you’d make an apple pie with.
- I use spelt flour with a lot of my recipes, but if you only have all purpose white flour, it works perfectly. I’ve never tried to make this recipe with whole wheat but I know it will work.
- If you don’t have a microwave, you can sauté the apples for 3 – 5 minutes. Don’t over cook them, just soften them.
- If you can’t eat these pancakes in one sitting, they store well. Layer them with cut pieces of parchment paper and place in a plastic baggie then put in the fridge.
- They heat up nicely in a toaster oven.
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Oh they look incredible. It’s kind of like an apple pie pancake. Yes!
Thanks Dannii!
Oooh. Those apple pancakes look amazing! I’m sad for you that your grandma’s recipe book disappeared but happy that you finally got the pancakes just right. I know my family would love these.
Thanks Annemarie. They are delicious and I’m sure your family would love them.
These look so good! I am having some major breakfast envy! Yummy! I can only imagine how they smell too.
Sooooo good, Luci 😉
Love them!!! What a way to have some pancakes. Your morning would have been perfect!
Thanks Swayam! They are super delicious!
WOW — this recipe sounds SO amazing! LOVE those big pieces of apple inside the pancakes. Truly beautiful! I hope you find your Grandmother’s book someday. How lovely though, to remember some and all of the memories.
Valentina! Thanks. Alas, the book is lost for good.
What a great feeling that must have been to revisit that bit of nostalgia. They look great!
Kristina! Thanks!
Love these, Elaine!
Thanks Beth! 🙂
These apple pancakes look fabulous!
Thanks Christopher!