What is it with me? I’m always taking things too far. I’m obsessed.
Yes… so I love pancakes. This much you know is true. But pancakes turned into muffins? Really? I’m a nut job.
Oh me. Oh my.
Is there some sort of support group for pancake addiction?
Essentially, with these muffins, we’re talking about a browned butter muffin with a beautiful sticky maple glaze.
The best part about these beauties is that you can add anything you like to them… just as you would pancakes.
Blueberry Pancake Muffins? Milk Chocolate Chip Pancake Muffins? Cinnamon Pancake Muffins? Crispy Bacon Pancake Muffins? If you can dream it up, you can probably put it in this muffin. Super yum!
Maple Syrup Pancake Muffins
makes 12 glorious muffins
for the muffins:
7 Tablespoons unsalted butter
1/3 cup whole milk
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1 Tablespoon maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
For the Maple Glaze:
3/4 cup pure maple syrup
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
Put a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line muffin pan with paper or foil liners
Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Keep an eye on the butter. Melt and cook down the butter until little brown bits appear in the pan. The crackling will subside and butter will begin to brown fairly quickly after that. Keep a close eye. Remove from heat.
Whisk milk, egg, yolk, maple syrup, and vanilla until combined. Add the brown butter and stir to combine.
Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl Add milk and butter mixture all at one and stir gently to combine.
Divide the batter among muffin cups and spread evenly.
Bake until golden and crisp and a wooden pick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, about 18-20 minutes.
While the muffins are baking make the maple glaze.
In a small saucepan simmer maple syrup and lemon juice, stirring occasionally, until reduced to a thick (thicker than maple syrup) syrup. This will take about 15 minutes over a low flame.
Remove from heat and wait for the muffins to finish baking. When muffins are out of the oven and cool enough to handle, poke a few holes in the muffin top with a toothpick and dip each muffin top in the maple glaze. After dipping all twelve muffins, start with the first muffin you dipped and dip each muffin again.
Mowie @ Mowielicious
Hi, my name is Mowie and I’m a Joy the Baker addict =)
Kate @ Savour Fare
Mmm. Banana cinnamon pancake muffins. Yes please! Can you invent french toast muffins next?
joythebaker
uuummm….. YES!
Eliana
These look glorious Joy.
Mark from Torrance, CA
Add some pieces of bacon in these muffins. Mouth and mind watering for a bite of that.
joythebaker
amazing. mind watering!
Sarah Helen
I am a new Joy the Baker addict, and I LOVE your blog! It has been my inspiration to start my own baking blog, i LOVE to bake! I can’t wait to try out this recipe, i too love pancakes!!
Mari
Joy, I have a question unrelated to this blog. I hope you could answer… I also live in LA. Do you know of any good antique places in the area that sell kitchen utensils, tools, dishes, etc? Thanks!
joythebaker
um…. try Society of St. Vincent de Paul in (sort of) downtown los angeles.
Mari
Thank you!
Joanna
Great idea and recipe!
danielle
so let’s say someone wanted to make a big batch of these to freeze so they could eat them for breakfast every morning….. purely hypothetical, of course.
would you recommend skipping the glaze or do you think it would freeze okay?
joythebaker
danielle. yes. i would skip the glaze to freeze these little darlings.
Erika from The Pastry Chef At Home
Yes Joy, there is a support group for this sort of thing. It’s called The How-To-Get-Over-Your Addiction-To-Pancakes-By-Becoming-Addicted-To-Muffins-Instead Support Group. I’m the President. Wanna be the VP?
joythebaker
yes… i totally need to be the VP. :)
Sophie
I just tried these and they are amazing! I am a new follower of your blog, I discovered it last week after seeing your avocado chocolate cake reposted on another blog. When I saw this on my google reader this morning, I knew I had to try them. Thank goodness for a snow day today or I would have had to wait until the afternoon. These were amazing, and came out just as you said, though maybe my muffin tins are jumbo-sized because I found that I couldn’t quite fill them all the way, though the muffins did puff up beautifully anyway.
Can’t wait to see your next post, for now I’ll content myself with looking through the recipe archives :)
joythebaker
you’re speedy! i’m so glad you made these and liked them. happy snow day!
Patty
This is why I adore you.
Heather @ chiknpastry
mmmmmmm maple syrup. the next best thing to molasses ;). i’ll be whipping up some carrot cake pancakes this weekend, so we’ll see how they turn out! if nothing else, they sounds scrumptitious!
joythebaker
happy baking! i hope you like them!
erin
A portable pancake, I think I am heaven!
Kristan Roland
Yummy!! I will be trying these for sure!!
Casey
Looks fantastic! I am all about Pancake Muffins right now!