Things that are awesome and things that are not awesome; an incomplete list.
Things that are awesome:
Summer dresses that look great with summer ponytails.
Bathing suits + Palm Springs + Rented Summer House + Sun Screen + Giant Sun Glasses + Mojitos x Infinity = Awesome.
Big, fat bumble bees… come on, they’re precious.
Pulling this beautiful Dutch Baby out of the oven on Easter morning, sprinkling it with orange sugar and feeling like Julia Child… that’s awesome.
Things that are NOT awesome:
Otherwise perfect vintage dresses that are half a size too small.
Bathing suit shopping… exactly no one likes that, and why on earth are my legs so white!?
Bee stings on the butt. It happens people. It really happens.
Not pulling this Dutch Baby out of the oven on Easter morning… that’s not awesome at all.
A Dutch Baby is somewhere between a pancake and a pop over. I whipped up a thin batter, poured it into a hot, butter-covered skillet, and let it bake for 18 minutes. As soon as it came out of the oven I attacked it with orange sugar and cut it into giant slices. It’s as delicious as breakfast gets. So easy, so crispy with sugar, so perfectly spring.
Dutch Baby with Orange Sugar
adapted from Gourmet April 2009
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoon grated orange zest
- 3 large eggs at room temperature 30 minutes (run then under warm water if you’re in a hurry)
- 2/3 cup whole milk at room temperature ( I used 2% and was happy)
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 stick unsalted butter, cut into pieces
Put skillet on middle rack of oven and preheat oven to 450°F.
Stir together sugar and zest in a small bowl.
Beat eggs with an electric mixer at high speed until pale and frothy, then beat in milk, flour, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt and continue to beat until smooth, about 1 minute more (batter will be thin).
Add butter to hot skillet and melt, swirling to coat. Add batter and immediately return skillet to oven. Bake until puffed and golden-brown, 18 to 25 minutes.
Serve immediately, topped with orange sugar.
Heather Meech
What size skillet is used in this recipe – I’d love to try it.
joythebaker
9 or 10-inch cast iron would be great!
Jillian
I have been meaning to make a Dutch baby for some time now, but have been terrified I’d mess it up. I finally got it together and decided to try to make your recipe tonight. It turned out better than I could have imagined! I made it as a dessert, and it was the perfect way to end a nice dinner party. It looks like an intimidatingly difficult dish, but it was so easy! Even easier than making pancakes from a box (I didn’t just confess to doing that when I’m feeling lazy).
Once again Joy, you’ve pulled through for me. I know I can count on you to make my jean size increase as I’m happily eating the dishes you write about.
Annie
Just made one tonight and it was delicious!! Thanks for do what you do :)
Melanie
I have been eating Dutch Babies for years from the local Original House of Pancakes and was so excited to find this on your blog. I moved to Australia about 8 months ago from the US so baking in Celsius with a fan forced oven is always a challenge. This turned out great though! I don’t have a skillet so I used a casserole dish. The only problem with this was it didn’t get to spread out enough so it’s pretty thick. I also made an orange syrup to go on top instead of the orange butter. I will be making the base for this again and again … just with different toppings. Thanks Joy!
Elsbeth
Just recently discovered your blog via NSMBL.nl and while I was searching the recipe index for something to bake this cloudy, lazy sunday the Dutch part of ‘Dutch baby’ caught my attention..
But when I saw the recipe and pictures I just don’t get why it is called ‘Dutch’ baby.. I am Dutch and I have never ever seen a pancake been made this way!
Grtz from the Netherlands
Kerry
This was easy to make and so fun to watch puff up in the oven. And completely AWESOME to eat. One thing I did differently: instead of orange sugar sprinkled over top, I took the sugar and orange zest and added a nubbin of a pre-scraped vanilla bean pod, poured in a bit of water into a small pot and made a syrup. Between the two of us we only made it half way through the ‘baby’, so we’ve got some super tasty leftovers to tackle later on. :)
Skeezor
This just looks tushy. No offense, joy, i think it’s good