I love cinnamon buns and I also love pancakes, so cinnamon bun pancakes is a match made in heaven. No syrup needed here. Just a quick cream cheese glaze made from scratch. Your kids will go bonkers when you serve them this on Saturday morning! Give them something to be excited about!
Our usual Saturday morning routine consists of my husband making pancakes for the kids. He doesn’t just pour batter onto the skillet and serve boring round pancakes. Nope. Not my husband. He gets out his handy pancake pen and has the kids draw their orders on a piece of paper. They give him their drawing and he tries his best to recreate it. He has become quite the pancake artist creating bunnies, flowers, dinosaurs, coconut trees, ducks, dolphins, sharks and monster trucks. The kids absolutely LOVE it and look forward to it every weekend.
The drawing is my oldest daughter’s request and you can see below how my husband replicated it quite well!!
So when I stepped in one Saturday morning to make pancakes I knew they had to be good. I don’t have the pancake skills my husband has, but I can make some really awesome round cinnamon bun pancakes. When they saw me swirling the cinnamon sugar mixture onto the pancakes that’s when they got excited. Topping it with the creamy homemade glaze is what sealed the deal! There were oohs and aahs from everyone at the table as they were eating.
Who wouldn’t be intrigued with a pancake that looks like this? My tip for pouring out the cinnamon sugar mixture easily is to put it in a measuring cup with a lip. It will drizzle out evenly and quickly. I found it to be much more efficient. When I put it into a bag and squeezed it, the hole would get clogged and my pretty swirl wouldn’t look so pretty.
Yes please! They ARE as delicious as they look. Really.
Ingredients
- Your favorite pancake batter or GF batter
- 1/2 C melted butter
- 3/4 C packed brown sugar
- 1 T cinnamon
- 4 ounces softened cream cheese
- 1/2 C melted butter
- 1 1/2 C powered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Mix your favorite pancake batter and set aside.
- In separate bowl, combine 1/2 C melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.
- In an additional bowl, mix softened cream cheese, powered sugar, vanilla and 1/2 C melted butter.
- Immediately after pouring pancake batter onto skillet drizzle and swirl cinnamon mixture. Flip pancake over and continue to cook as normal. Repeat for other pancakes drizzling mixture on 1 side and flipping.
- Spread cinnamon bun syrup on top of warm pancakes and serve.
Notes
Adapted from All Recipes
Mathilde says
September 12, 2015 at 5:49 amThank you for this delicious recipe! Cinnamon bun pancakes were my very first American brunch when I came to the USA as an exchange student for a year. This fall, I’m back in France, and have renewed access to a kitchen (bye bye, dining halls!). I knew this recipe would be the perfect way to keep my New England nostalgia and it did not disappoint. Thanks for a delicious and easy to make Sunday brunch! I’ll definitely try other recipes from your website!