It’s all well and good until someone has to stand in front of the stove and flip the pancakes.
It’s a thankless job and I wouldn’t wish pancake flipping onto anyone’s relaxed weekend.
Luckily, where there are a few eggs, a bit of flour and milk, and a big ol’ handful of berries…. there is a Dutch Baby. Pancake sans flip.
Dutch Babies exist in the delicious land between pancake and popover. They’re tender and eggy, light and crunchy. They’re also quite a spectacle coming out of the oven. They’re show-offs. It’s cool. Breakfast can be dramatic.
A simple mixture of cinnamon and sugar will work wonders for this breakfast.
Eggs do all of the heavy lifting in a Dutch Baby. There’s no leavening from baking powder or baking soda. It’s all whipped egg! Eggs are whipped until pale and frothy.
An electric hand-mixer works wonders for a task like this.
Once the eggs are whipped to a frenzy… milk, flour, cinnamon, and salt are added. So sugar in the batter, if you can believe that. All of the sugar gets sprinkled on top!
The rather thin batter is poured into the rather hot, butter laden skillet.
The batter is immediately placed in a very hot oven to puff like whoa!
I like to take the 20 minutes it takes to cook a Dutch Baby to do the following things:
– stir a bit of cinnamon sugar into the sliced berries.
– pour the orange juice.
– quickly gather everyone around the oven for the big, puffed, dramatic, browned Dutch Baby reveal! Seriously… gather round. The puff only lasts a few minutes.
Pancake charm with not a single flip! This feels pretty great.
Cinnamon sugar adds a jolt of sweetness and a tiny bit of crunch from the sugar. The butter keeps the Dutch Baby from sticking and also adds… you know, awesome buttery flavor! Berries are bursting into season, and any excuse to shovel them onto breakfast food I’m all for!
This Dutch Baby is best served hot from the oven, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, piled with sweet berries, and eaten gathered around the skillet with forks and orange juice. Well… at least that’s how I did it.
Triple Berry Dutch Baby
makes 10-inch pancake, serves 4
adapted slightly from Epicurious
For the Dutch Baby:
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 large eggs, at room temperature for 30 minutes
2/3 cup whole milk, at room temperature
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
For the Berries:
2 cups fresh berries (I used sliced strawberries, fresh raspberries, and fresh blueberries)
Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
In a small bowl, stir together sugar and cinnamon. Set aside.
Beat eggs with an electric beater or mixer on medium-high until pale and frothy, about 3 to 5 minutes . Beat in the milk, flour, cinnamon, and salt. Beat until thoroughly combined. The batter will be very thin.
Place a 10-inch cast iron (or oven safe) skillet on the stovetop over medium heat. Melt the butter in the skillet. Remove from heat and immediately pour the batter into the pan. Immediately place the pan in the oven and bake for 18 to 22 minutes or until golden-brown and puffed.
While the dutch baby bakes, add a few spoonfuls of the cinnamon sugar mixture to the fresh berries. Stir and let rest until ready to serve.
Remove the baked and puffed dutch baby from the oven and immediately sprinkle generously with cinnamon and sugar. Add the berries. Slice and serve. Dutch babies are best served just after it comes out of the oven.
Sarah
I made this today after I saw your insta story the other day and it was awesome! Thank you ?
joythebaker
Wonderful!
Linda Barbier
LOVE this recipe. I’ve made it three times. First time it puffed beautifully! Next two times it made a delicious thick pancake. Followed directions exactly. Any idea why it didn’t puff?
Nicole Rae Blumberg
I find your directions to be a little confusing with the sugar and cinnamon. You say to mix the sugar and cinnamon together and set aside. Then you say to put the cinnamon in the dutch baby. Can you please clarify if the sugar is also added in the dutch baby in your recipe? which amount of cinnamon is being put in the dutch baby?
joythebaker
Yes, it is the cinnamon and sugar mixture that you put on the dutch baby.
Jessica
Why didn’t my dutch baby rise? I’ve tried this recipe twice now, no success.
joythebaker
Some possibilities could include you didn’t whip the eggs long enough or your oven was not hot enough. Hope it works for you next time!
Jackie
What a great idea! It looks so delicious and I can’t wait to try it. It is a wonderful twist on the ole pancake idea.
Debra
If you’re watching calories, I use a similar recipe but cut the cutter to one tablespoon. The Dutch Baby is still light and fluffy and buttery tasting.
Ery Simmons
Hi Joy, your recipe and pictures are gorgeous!! I love pancakes and waffles, so I’m excited to try this only you said the Dutch baby is eggy. I have a weird intolerance to the smell and taste of eggs, does it actually taste eggy?
joythebaker
It is definitely a bit more eggy than regular pancakes. But I promise it’s not a scrambled eggs type of eggy taste.
Jessica Robinson
This looks so yummy! such incredible detailed images too..
Monique
So I’m Dutch and I’ve never heard of this. It looks amazing though, will have to give it a try :) Thanks for sharing!
Kelley
This was so easy and quick to make and yet it tasted like I labored all day on it. Thank you for the great breakfast (we ate ours for dessert) recipe. I dig this one for sure.
Sarah Stewart
This is my go-to Sunday breakfast recipe lately. It’s so ridiculously easy, but looks so impressive. The berries and cinnamon sugar are beautiful and really tasty on top. When I don’t have berries, it’s great on it’s own, too, with a bit of icing sugar sifted on top and a good splash of maple syrup. Thanks for this easy to follow, beautifully photographed recipe!
John Dawson
That is a Yorkshire pudding! A rather odd Yorkshire pudding, but a Yorkshire pudding nevertheless…
Sarah
These will becoming out of the oven in about 2 minutes and oh my goodness does my kitchen smell wonderful!
The Queen of Dreaming
I want to eat my computer after watching your photos!
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Knaubs
JTB! Thank you for this post and recipe. My boyfriend and I have made a Saturday routine of walking our pups to the market to pick up berries and milk (+ bacon, or course!), followed by reggae music in the kitchen while gushing over the awesomeness of this breakfast. Many thanks for the inspiration! Now, perhaps a run…
Rachael
Oh my! I made this for Easter brunch and was incredibly tasty and looked so fancy, it definitely blew my boyfriend away. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of Dutch babies before, thank you for showing me the way with such a simple lovely recipe
Marya
I made this today!! And it was a failure. No puff! I am eating it anyways, but….this is my first Joy recipe gone wrong! I am sure it’s my fault for using whole wheat pastry flour, but hey, it’s all I had.
And just to let you know…. i put blueberry vanilla goat cheese on it with the berries. HOLY COW good.
Vasun
Are these pretty similar to yorkshire puddings?
Joy Callas
Mmmmmmm! Decadent :) I grew up on these wonderful Dutch Baby Pancakes…we ate Sunday morning breakfast at The Pancake House in Portland, OR for many years. They serve the pancake with fresh sliced lemons & sifted powdered sugar….OMG!!! I have sautee’d apple slices in the butter in a skillet, sprinkled w/cinnamon sugar….then pour the batter over & pop in the oven. What wonderful memories around the breakfast table :) Thx Joy….for inspiring new & less-new cooks.
cheyenne
i never had a dutch baby, so tempted to make one this weekend!
xo, cheyenne
melanie bauer
Such awesome photos, Joy!
Connect-the-Cloths
Yum yum! Thanks for the recipe. & Looking forward to your future posts. ;D
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Rocky Mountain Woman
I make Dutch Babies when my grandkids visit – I’m going to try this version next time! YUM!
Kelsey
I used to work at a breakfast restaurant and the dutch babies were a priority coming out of the kitchen. We weren’t even allowed to put them on a tray because that would take too long and deflate.
Arthur in the Garden!
Wow! Its like Spring in a pan!
Jane
My buzzing mind woke me up at 5am today…which was fine as it gave me the perfect opportunity to whip this up for the family – on a work day! They adored it, and it was SO much easier than pancakes. They were fighting over the last piece. Thanks for this – it’s a keeper in our house!
Lucy
I’ve never made a dutch baby pancake, but this recipe just may inspire me. I love the colors and the use of berries. Much easier than flipping pancakes and trying to keep them all warm.
Lore
Looks delicious! Why’s it called a Dutch Baby, though? I’ve been living in The Netherlands my entire life, for twenty years, and I’ve never seen or heard of this. The Dutch do have a different way of making pancakes, but flipping is still a must for as far as I know.
bec {daisy and the fox}
i’ve always wanted to make one, and you’ve truly inspired and motivated me :D
thanks for the recipe! looks delicious! and great shots :)
Lynn @ The Actor's Diet
Yummy! This reminds me of the Meyer Lemon pancake at Canele…
Cindy
Your dutch baby looks wonderful. I used to make them all the time, but for some reason forgot about them! I’m thinking my grandchildren would find them pretty special!! Thanks for the reminder.
Jenny
The berry baby looks and sounds absolutely delicious from your photos and description, but suddenly it hit me, it’s suspiciously like the “thick pancake” my mother used to make and we thought were sooo boring…. We wanted the individual pancakes (the crepe variety as I grew up in Europe) not the big, fluffy, puffy baked in the oven kind. The American pancakes, the thick, individual kind with baking powder/baking soda was introduced later and only as a rare treat made by my father that had been to the US. But obviously I shall have to make your Dutch variety to compare and contrast with my childhood one :)
Taylor
mmmm! I love making dutch babies and this one looks soooo yummy! I can’t wait to try it out.
xoxo
Taylor
Sommer @ASpicyPerspective
This looks amazing and it calling my name! A must try for sure! Pinning
Ylenia
I’ve just found your blog and LOVE it! I love the recipes and the pictures that are fantastic and make my mouth watering! I’ll add you to my blogroll and will come for sure!!!
ciao!
Sue
Oh my…… How we love our Dutch babies! At one point I did a pretty thorough Internet search and found a lot of recipes, to which your version will obviously be added. But I must confess to being even lazier than those who don’t enjoy flipping pancakes and eating after everyone else is done: I put everything but the butter into my Vitamix, give it a whirl. Put the butter and the skillet into the hot oven, wait till it’s all hot and full of buttery goodness, then whirl the “baby” once more in the Vitamix, pour it into the skillet, and bake. When I make one, I make a huuuuuge one, and have discovered that it’s good cold, and even the next day. Fresh berries (cinnamon always a great addition) and/or real maple syrup. Yum! I haven’t made one in far too long (oven died!) so I doubly appreciate your great post and photos. Thanks, Joy!
Lisa
Looks delic
L x
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sundiegoeats
That is GORGEOUS. I find pancakes too be a bit too dense/boring but the one time I ate a Dutch baby (what a weird phrase to say….) it was delicious. Love the airiness and soft dough contrasting with the crispier puffy parts.
Charlotte
As much as I love Dutch Babies, and popovers, I actually really like flipping pancakes. I don’t necessarily like eating them (waffles, french toast and crepes are far superior), but I find a lot of satisfaction in making them for others. So I’ll happily be your resident pancake flipper!
caitlinmatero
I have been on a kick of making different kinds of pancakes. Dutch Babies is next on my list. I think recipe might be the one! Can’t wait to try!
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Eileen
This dutch baby looks fabulous! Definitely a perfect vehicle for all the new spring strawberries. :)
marcia
oh man, i’ve been dying to make a dutch baby, but just haven’t taken the time to actually make it. your recipe looks marvelous.
Ashlyn
This looks like the makings of a perfect weekend!
Ludi
As always, your words really are an inspiration for everyday life and for smiles.
Thank you
Ludi
Katie H.
Nobody likes flipping. We got a griddle that covers two burners, so at least I can mass produce my flapjacks and sit down at the breakfast table after round 2, but seriously. This might be as revolutionary as cooking bacon in the oven – no flipping, grease attack!
And, oh, it’s just so pretty. I imagine you slice it like a pie, right?
fabiola@notjustbaked
I have never made dutch pancakes, and I love them. Plus it’s berry season around these parts soon, so this is going on my to make list fo sho!
Mareike
I actually find the act of flipping pancakes wonderfully soothing haha! It just makes me feel so happy knowing I’m filling my friends and families bellies with goodness :)
P Cox
Oh yum, I love these! Like a giant Yorkshire pudding!
Ashley
One of the prettiest dutch babies I’ve seen! Cinnamon sugar berries are a must for brunch.
tracy
yum, this looks great! i have to tell you i make your “single lady pancakes” from your cookbook all.the.time. while I am not a single lady if I double the recipe it is the perfect amount for my hubs and me! this looks like a winner for us too thank you!
Hari Chandana
Looks so beautiful!!
LoveYourEgo
It seems like there are a lot of way to cheat on pancakes :D You can either make them so thin that they become crêpes or you can tear it into little pieces to turn them into Kaiserschmarn or you can just pour the whole dough in a pan and leave it in the oven until it’s done. The berries make my mouth go all watery… :D
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alison
I will have to try this! it looks very similar to my mom’s recipe for “baked pancake” except she only left ingredients, not instructions, and every time I make I am like “ok do I melt the butter? do I stir? do I beat? what am I doing here???” it always tastes good but a little technique would be helpful ;) although I don’t think she did the heating the butter in the pan thing (and always used a 9×13). so I think it came out a little less puffy? plus she had an addiction to bacon and cheddar, which always, always were included. anyway, what I mean to say is thank you for this recipe, I look forward to trying it!
Rebekah {aCricketSang}
Looks great! I always hate that it’s called a dutch baby. How did it get that name anyway? But I guess it’s appropriate, because its so delicious I’m soon to have a food baby from it ;)
foodlikecake
Mmm, that sounds amazing! I love dutch babies :-)
Marisa Franca
I love your photography — your colors and contrast are outstanding. Your Dutch Baby looks delicious and the way you staged the food is awesome. I love the wood/plank of the table. I’ve just discovered your blog and I’ve just started one in February. You are certainly an inspiration for quality in posts.
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar
This looks like such a yummy breakfast/dessert/every meal!! Gah!
Kelli
Beautiful pictures!
Marie
Just lovely! Somehow I still have never tried making a Dutch baby at home. Need to change that!
Jessica (bakecetera)
i’ve never tried a dutch baby – this has got to change! beautiful recipe.
Caitlin
I just read the title if this post and said “oh yeahhhhh” in my head. Yum!
Rachel
I’ve got so many recipes for these bookmarked, but I’ve never made one yet. I now feel this is a big error.
Jacqui
Hummina hummina
Megan
Your photos have improved so much lately! I mean, they were always great, but they’re even better now. Super jealous of that distressed wood backdrop you have – did you buy that, make it, steal it?
ana@ fit, fun & delish!
Beautiful post! You make the making of dutch babies sound easy! I think I’ll give this a try!
Belinda Lo (Moonblush Baker)
We all know it is about the middle goodness in dutch babies. Buttery, and the tart sweetness of the triple berry my is a perfect way to start any day. So with you on flipping; sometimes it is therapy but other times it is a pain!
stephanie
this is gorgeous! i would totally gather around the skillet and just dig in too…who needs plates? ;)
Laura (Tutti Dolci)
Love the puff!
Averie @ Averie Cooks
You make the prettiest Dutch babies! I remember some of them from your cookbook and they always jumped off the pages. And flipping pancakes, I am so not into that! Waffles, dutch babies, and anything in a skillet, yes please! pinned