German Apple Pancake

One of my favorite weekend breakfast treats is the dutch baby. It’s easy, it’s delicious and it’s so versatile. This is a breakfast that’s a delicious treat year round. But it’s especially tasty in the summer when all the stone fruits and berries are in season. But what do you when you can’t find peaches, plums or berries at the store anymore? You use cinnamon and apples.  That’s when the dutch baby becomes another favorite breakfast dish of mine – a German Apple Pancake.

How does it go from one thing to the other? Simple.  Unlike the Dutch Baby which is just a plain oven pancake that you top with fruit, the Apple Pancake has the fruit baked into it.  There are different ways to do this: you could place the apples in the bottom of the plate and pour the batter over it, or you could do the opposite and pour the batter in first and sprinkle the apples on top. Either way you do it, the batter will rise up and around the apples until they’re one with the delicious pancake.

While you could use apples and cook them up with butter and cinnamon before you add them to the batter, using Lucky Leaf’s apple pie filling cuts out that extra step since the apples are already steeped in cinnamon. Why would you use a pie filling in a pancake? Because Lucky Leaf’s pie fillings aren’t just for pie. They’re so yummy and so versatile, you could use them in just about anything. But the apple pie filling is the perfect choice for the oven pancake because after all you can’t have a German Apple Pancake without apples. That and it adds a nice fall flavor to this yummy breakfast treat.

German Apple Pancake

Ingredients:

• 2 Tbsp butter
• 3 eggs
• 3/4 cup of flour
• 3/4 cup of milk
• 11 oz. of Lucky Leaf Apple Pie Filling

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 425° F.
2. Put the butter in a Pyrex pie plate and melt in the microwave for 1 minute.
3. Crack the eggs into the blender and blend on high for 1 minute.  While the blender’s running add the milk.  Then while the blender continues to run, gradually add the flour. Blend for another minute or two until totally combined.
4. Pour the batter into your prepared pie plate.
5. Chop up the apples from the pie filling and sprinkle throughout the pancake batter.
6. Cook for 20-25 minutes, until the pancake has risen and is a nice golden brown.
7. Pull out and let stand for a minute or two.  Slice the pancake and serve with a little cinnamon sugar.