How To Make The Best Dutch Pancakes (+ video)- The Tortilla Channel (2024)

Traditional Dutch pancakes or pannenkoeken as we call them are on the menu today. This recipe brings back memories because these pancakes taste so good.

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Dutch pancakes are bigger and thinner than regular pancakes but so delicious. Would you like to see how you can make traditional Dutch pancakes? Let’s get started!

Dutch Pancakes Ingredients

Traditional Dutch pancakes are so yummy and much larger and thinner than regular American pancakes. You can easily make it from scratch. All you need is:

Whole wheat flour
Baking powder
Eggs
Milk
Pinch of salt

You can find all the ingredient amounts and instructions in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

How To Make Dutch Pancakes

When you make these pancakes, you need a big frying pan or skillet. I have a great nonstick frying pan that has never failed to produce great pancakes or eggs. Start by adding all the flour to a large mixing bowl then add the baking powder and salt. Whisk the flour mix thoroughly before adding half of the milk into the bowl.
Stir well until you have a lump-free batter. Now add the remainder of the milk slowly. Keep whisking as you continue to add the milk.
Then break an egg and whisk until the egg has totally dissolved in the batter. Repeat for the second egg. Set your batter aside for 5 minutes.
Heat a frying pan until hot and add half a tablespoon of butter. Add a soup spoon of batter to the pan. Swirl the batter in the pan until the whole pan is covered.
Add more pancake batter if the base of the pan is not totally covered. Let the batter sit and bake for about 1 minute per side and take the pancake out of the pan.
Keep warm and serve. Depending on the size of the pan this recipe yields between 12-16 pancakes.

See How To Make Dutch Pancakes

Want to see how easy it is to make this traditional Dutch pancake recipe? Then watch the instructional video in the recipe card below.

Pancake Toppings And Add Ons

You can eat your Dutch pancakes with:

Powdered sugar
Sugar syrup
Apple syrup
Brown sugar
Granulated sugar
Fruit – you can add banana, apple, berries, or peach. You can even mash your banana or berries and incorporate them into the batter
Whipped cream
Bacon or ham – If you like savory you can make them with bacon. Just bake the bacon first and put the pancake batter on top of the bacon

You can even turn it into a pizza. Just use a little more pancake batter in the pan and add vegetables and cheese.

What Makes This Pancake Recipe

During our summer vacations, we would stay in our caravan for three weeks. It was a small caravan with a mini kitchen.

Somehow my father managed to cook up dinner in that little caravan every evening. Every summer the highlight of our vacation would be eating a stack of pancakes.

So, when we were asked what we would like to eat the answer was always the same. Pancakes!!! This was quite a task because how do you bake approximately 20 pancakes and keep them warm in such a small caravan?

Keeping them warm was probably the easiest task as the caravan would be like an oven in the Summer. But making the batter and cooking the pancakes were the real challenge. He managed to make it work every time.

We would eat these pancakes mostly for lunch but also for dinner and even on breakfast occasions. So, you can eat these any time you want.

So today I’m sharing his recipe for Dutch pancakes or Hollandse pannenkoeken.

How To Store Pancakes

If you are wondering if you can store these pancakes or make them ahead of time? The answer is yes you can.

Refrigerator – all you need to do is put the pancakes on a plate and let them cool. Then cover it with foil and put it in the fridge.
Freezer – you can also put them in the freezer wrapped in tin foil. I never roll them up when freezing but you can do this well and put them in a freezer-proof container. Just thaw before using them again.

Best Way To Reheat Pancakes

There are several ways to reheat pancakes. If you have frozen pancakes make sure you thaw them first.

Boiling water – Take a big pot of hot water and put a plate on top of the bowl. Put the pancakes on the plate and cover them with a lid. Let it sit for 10 minutes and your pancakes will be warm
Oven – Preheat your oven to 400℉/200℃ and wrap the pancakes in tin foil. Put them in for 7-9 minutes and your pancakes will be warm
Microwave – put the pancakes on a plate covered with foil and put them in the microwave. Warm at 800W for 1 minute and check if the pancakes are warm and extend with another minute

More Pancake Recipes

If you love pancakes take a look at these delicious pancake recipes:

Sweet Dutch baby pancake
Vegan banana peanut butter pancake
Easiest fluffy coconut flour pancakes
Sweet pancake muffin bites
The Fluffiest pancakes that will make you happy
Simple French crepes

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Traditional Dutch pancakes

Mireille

Serves: 12 Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 25 minutes

These Dutch pancakes are thicker than a crepe and thinner than American pancakes. Serve for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Sweet or savory.

Ingredients

500 g whole wheat flour
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
900 ml milk
2 large eggs
Butter or baking product

Instructions

Put all the flour in a bowl and add the baking powder and salt. Whisk before adding half of the milk into the bowl
Stir until a lump free batter. Now add the remainder of the milk and keep whisking
Then stir in the two eggs until you have a smooth batter. Set aside for 5 minutes
Heat a frying pan and add a knob of butter. Add a soup spoon of batter in the pan. Spread the batter and let it set. Bake for about 1 minute per side
Keep warm and serve