These Scotch Pancakes will make your morning! They are fluffy and delicious! You can cover them with this raspberry sauce and/or maple syrup for a delicious breakfast that will start your day off right.
You’re probably wondering what the difference is between “regular” pancakes and “Scotch” pancakes, also called Scottish pancakes.
Well, as far as I can tell, the main differences are that Scotch pancakes are thicker than regular pancakes and they taste about six thousand times better. There’s extra sugar, egg, and baking powder which means they are sweeter, richer, and fluffier. Can I get an Amen?
If you’re a regular reader you already know that I inadvertently signed up for a lifetime of frustrating Saturday mornings spent trying to pry the husband out of bed. I’m an early riser, and he… is not.
So far, the best way I’ve found to get his lazy bones out of bed and ready for a fun day of weekend activities is PANCAKES. But not just any pancakes.
Scotch pancakes… from scratch.
This method works even better when I put a little bit of raspberry sauce on top of the pancakes.
Oh, who am I kidding? Let’s go with a LOT of raspberry sauce.
I’m a total sucker for pancake pictures.
I don’t have a recipe for the raspberry sauce because I don’t think it qualifies as a “recipe”, per se. It’s just a bag of frozen raspberries from the freezer aisle (where most frozen stuff lives) brought to a boil in a saucepan with some sugar. How much sugar? Eh, start with a half cup and work your way up.
Raspberries can be a bit tart sometimes, so taste a few several spoonfuls as you go and make it as sweet as you like it.
Just look at all of that cascading-goodness.
So I have something funny to share with you about pancake recipes. Check out this happy little screen shot from Google Trends:
This shows the popularity of people searching for “pancakes.” Notice all those little spikes happening once per year? Those are all occurring the week before Valentine’s Day in February.
I mean, come on, people. Pancakes need not be a once-per-year event.
It’s easy! I promise!
Make them for your wife. Or your husband. Or for yourself because you are awesome and you deserve it.
Take a big, fat bite.
Ah, breakfast.
More Fruit Filled Breakfast Recipes
- Vegan Blueberry Muffins
- Easy Homemade Apple and Oat Muesli
- Homemade Swedish Pancakes with Strawberries
Scotch Pancakes Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 5 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups of whole milk
- 2 tablespoons salted butter - melted
Instructions
- Sift together the flour and baking powder into a large bowl.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs and sugar together until combined. Whisk in the milk.
- Use a spoon to make a well in the flour mixture, then pour in the wet ingredients while continuing to whisk.
- Pour in the melted butter and stir, gently, until the butter is mixed in to the batter.
- Heat a cast iron skillet or griddle over medium heat. Coat the surface with a little non-stick spray or butter, then ladle a quarter cup of batter onto the heated surface. Let cook for 2 or 3 minutes until bubbles appear on the surface and the edges look golden brown in color. Flip the pancake and let cook for another minute until lightly browned. Keep warm in a pre-heated oven set to 200 degrees. Continue with remaining batter.
Nutrition
This recipe looks delicious, but it is identical to the recipe in Australia which is called pikelets! However, a pancake by any other name would taste as sweet!
I’m happy you enjoy pancakes but I would like to point out we never eat pancakes piled up on top of one another we eat them one at a time with butter and jam or just butter or just jam and have then along with a cup of tea and we sometimes have them fried with bacon and egg that is if they are a day old. Please try to reduce the sugar when you make them which you can do quite easily by half, jam has plenty of sugar and you won’t notice the difference
Well, begging to differ? I am Originally from Cornwall, and my Mother used to make us Scotch pancakes all the time. She used to make them without sugar, and pile them up with grated cheddar cheese and Marmite in between. Or we would have them sweet with honey, (because Maple syrup was never heard of.).. Now I’m sure that is not traditional, but they were awfully good to keep kids happy…
I was going to say that this is the BEST recipe yet that I have found for scotch pancakes, and I was thrilled to make them today ?? Thank you ?? My die-hard American pancake lover husband LOVED them !
Im scottish and i grew up with these.
No better pancakes anywhere.
And they are called Scottish drop scones or scotch pancakes where I live.