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.
Jenny
You are definitely not the only one with a pancake OR muffin obsession! ;) This a great idea – keep them coming for us pancake-muffin lovers!
Ashley
OMG! I’m drooling over here – what a fantastic idea!! Can’t wait to try these out :)
Melanie
Ummmm..yu-u-um! :)
Sounds maple-icious…loving it.
Sara
Oh how I love pancakes!!! And these are like little teeny portable wrapped pancakes! Such a great idea :)
Catherine
Wow these look soo good! Especilay if they had M&M’s or chocolate chips, or blueberries!!!yum!! Could you just use a plain pancake recipe to make the muffins?
Catherine Eng
ha ha! my name is catherine and its 4:06PM in California!!!! How funny!
Nastassia(LetMeEatCake)
Let me just say it- You Are A Genius! I love love love it! I can’t wait to bake it this weekend!
Michelle
I LOVE MAPLE SYRUP! It may or may not have something to do with being canadian. Or because it is just so awsome. Or a bit of both.
CookiePie
So funny – last weekend I made muffins and had leftover batter, so my husband added some milk and eggs to them and turned them into pancakes! But I love all the maple-y goodness in your recipe, have to try it!
Sara T
I’m right there with you in the pancake obsession. They’re just so good, no matter what size or time of day! The first time I saw a breakfast sausage wrapped in a pancake on a stick, i almost cried.
Refrigerator Gaskets
Joy,
You do not take things too far, you take them into simply delicious mode. I love checking in on your blog and seeing what I can pass along to my family. These look great!
dani
i love your pancake obsession! they are my fave posts :)
emma
portable pancakes? genius.
Kim
Maple is one of my all-time favorite flavors and I adore breakfast foods. This sounds like a knock out!
Dawn
I totally would have eaten that last crumb.
Tasha
I saw another post last week with someone doing maple pancake muffins.. Must be something in the water, haha
:)
They look tasty.
P.S
I’m new to the blog world, and I hope one day that mine is as good as yours!