Christmas Pancakes

With a blog focused on sweets, breakfast isn’t a topic I cover often, if at all. But Christmas pancakes as fun and easy as these certainly qualify for “creative sweets made simple”. Start a new tradition at your house by whipping up a batch of these for Christmas breakfast this year!

To make Christmas breakfast pancakes, you will need:

 

• Your favorite pancake recipe
• Pancake flipper
• Food coloring in red, green, white and ivory
• Heart-shaped sprinkles
• Black and red confetti sprinkles
• Orange, yellow and white star or flower-shaped sprinkles
• Piping bags and ties
• Pair of tweezers (clean, for food only)

To make colorful holiday pancakes for Christmas breakfast, start by preparing your favorite pancake batter. I keep things simple and use the pancake recipe on the back of the Bisquick box.

Heat up your griddle as you are preparing the batter for your Christmas breakfast pancakes.

Divide the batter into four sections. Use your food coloring to dye each section a different color, red, green, white and ivory. Then, pour each colored batter into a piping bag and tie off the end of the bag. When you are ready to use each color, simply cut off the tip and begin piping.

To make the Santa pancakes, start by laying down a heart-shaped sprinkle for the nose and two black confetti sprinkles for the eyes. Use a (clean, for food use only) pair of tweezers for more precise placement. Next, use your ivory colored batter to pipe a rounded rectangular shape over the sprinkles for Santa’s face. Working quickly, use your red batter to pipe a triangle for Santa’s hat and your white batter to draw in the ball on Santa’s hat and the beard. Save the white batter for last so that it doesn’t brown on the griddle. When the bottom side of your Santa pancake is cooked, flip it to cook the other side.

Scatter white star or flower-shaped sprinkles onto your griddle. On top of the sprinkles, draw triangle shapes with your green batter to make a Christmas tree shape. While the batter is cooking, place a yellow star sprinkle at the top of the tree. Once the under side of the Christmas tree pancake is cooked, flip it to cook the other side.

Set your sprinkles for the snowman on the griddle, two black confetti sprinkles for the eyes, one orange star or flower-shaped sprinkle for the nose, and three red confetti sprinkles for the buttons. Then, use your white batter to draw two circles on top of the sprinkles for the snowman’s body. Wait until the underside of the snowman pancake is cooked and then flip it over to finish cooking.

If your Christmas sweet tooth is tingling and you need some ideas to keep you baking past breakfast, be sure to check out 51 Decorated Christmas Cookies with Tutorials, Santa Christmas Cake Pops, and Stained Glass Christmas Cookie Ornaments.