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Easy Pancakes with Cinnamon and Candied Bacon

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Weekend mornings were made for being lazy and for homemade pancakes!

This easy pancake recipe will start the day off right!

easy pancakes stack

My mom asked me recently if I made a big breakfast for the kids every weekend. She looked at me incredulously when I told her that I did not…that we all sort of fend for ourselves on weekend mornings. It’s not that I don’t like making breakfast for the kids, it’s just that it doesn’t occur to me. It seems there is always somewhere to go for at least one of us, so arranging a time for all of us to enjoy breakfast can be challenging.

The more I thought about it though, the more I realized that I might be missing out on something here. There aren’t that many weeknights where we all gather around the table at the same time. But weekends are a little different. I could make Sunday pancake day if I wanted to and the kids would love it!

easy pancakes with bacon

These days, my kids can pitch and help make breakfast too! Each of my kids can make this easy pancake recipe (no pancake mix needed), so breakfast can be a group effort!

How To Make Pancakes

Gone are the days when you bought a box of pancake mix, added some milk and eggs and went to town making pancakes. You DO NOT need that mix, pancake batter recipe is easy and homemade pancakes are so much better, I promise!

This recipe starts with a little bacon…because that is what is going on top of your pancakes! Sure you could totally skip this step and eat your bacon on the side, but everyone knows that bacon and syrup are a killer combo!

easy pancakes top down view

I take thick slices of bacon and sprinkle them with brown sugar. The bacon is arranged on a foil lined baking sheet (arrange them on a baking rack if possible) and bake for 20 minutes. This will give you sweet, crisp, caramelized bacon that is like candy!

While the bacon cools, prepare your pancakes.

WHERE IS THE EASY PANCAKE RECIPE?

If you’d rather skip cooking tips, suggestions, handy substitutions, related recipe ideas – and get straight to the Easy Pancake Recipe– simply scroll to the bottom of the page where you can find the printable recipe card.

Easy pancake recipe with cinnamon

In a large bowl, whisk together flour (all-purpose), baking powder, sugar, salt, and cinnamon. Feel free to adjust the amount of cinnamon in this recipe so that the flavor better suits your tastes. There is a fair amount of baking powder, but you want enough baking powder to give you fluffy pancakes!

Add milk, an egg, and vanilla to the dry ingredients and mix just until incorporated. That right there is the base of your batter!


At this point, you can chop up the candied bacon and add some to your batter or keep it as a topping only.

easy pancakes on a plate

How to Cook Perfect Pancakes

Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. When the skillet is hot, reduce the heat so that now the skillet is over medium-low heat. This will prevent the pancakes from browning too quickly.

Add a pat of butter or a teaspoon of melted butter and then ladle or scoop about a ¼ cup of batter and pour it on the hot skillet.

Pancakes will not take long to grill up golden brown. Watch the pancakes cook, you will know the pancakes are ready to be flipped when air bubbles begin to form. Carefully flip the pancakes and heat the second side for only a minute or two.

If I am making a big batch, I keep the oven on a very low temperature and as I am finished with a batch of pancakes, I place them covered in the oven to stay warm.

easy pancakes with chopped bacon

Can I Freeze Pancakes?

Yes! We always make a double batch to freeze for busy mornings. Make sure your pancakes are completely cool.

Arrange the pancakes in a single layer on a baking sheet and place the baking sheet in the freezer. When pancakes have frozen, stack the pancakes with sheets of parchment paper in between in each pancake. Place the stack in a zip top bag. The pancake should keep for 1-2 months.

easy pancakes with maple syrup

How to Reheat Frozen Pancakes

The beauty of having frozen pancakes is that when the craving hits or when you need a quick breakfast, they are ready and when waiting for you.

Here a few ways to reheat frozen pancakes.

  1. Microwave the pancakes. I would arrange your pancakes in layers and microwave in 20-second intervals until heated through.
  2. To reheat pancakes in the oven, preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Place pancakes in an even layer on a foil-lined baking sheet and bake for about 10 minutes.
  3. Lastly, you could use the toaster. Place one pancake in each toaster slot and warm until heated through. I personally find that the toaster doesn’t seem to heat my pancakes evenly.

easy pancakes on a beige plate

Other Ways to Flavor These Easy Pancakes?

As mentioned above you could omit the bacon and add banana slices, blueberries, nuts, chocolate chips or cinnamon chips instead.

If you don’t want maple syrup then blueberry or strawberry syrup would be lovely as would a dusting of powdered sugar.
Love these pancakes? Then you need to try these Lemon Ricotta Zucchini Pancakes, Banana’s Foster Pancakes , Blueberry Quinoa Pancake Recipe, and these Toasted Coconut Pancakes! And if you are loving the sweet bacon combo, then check out these Maple Bacon Sugar Cookies!

Easy pancakes title

Yield: 8 servings

Easy Pancakes Cinnamon Pancakes with Candied Bacon

easy pancakes stack

Breakfast for dinner is such a treat, especially when it involves homemade pancakes and brown sugar bacon!

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 6 slices thick cut bacon
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 egg
  • 3 tablespoons melted butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Line a baking sheet with foil. Arrange bacon on foil and sprinkle with brown sugars. Cook for 20 minutes, turning bacon half way through cook time. Let cool completely before chopping.
  2. In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cinnamon. Make a well in the center of your dry ingredients and carefully mix in milk, eggs, butter and vanilla. Stir in chopped bacon, reserving a tablespoon for your topping.
  3. Heat a griddle pan or a skillet, using buttery spread to grease your pan. Ladle about ¼ cup full of batter. Brown pancakes on each side.
  4. Serve with reserved bacon.

Nutrition Information

Yield

8

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 224Total Fat 9gSaturated Fat 5gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 4gCholesterol 47mgSodium 694mgCarbohydrates 28gFiber 1gSugar 7gProtein 8g

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© Tanya Schroeder
Cuisine: American / Category: Breakfast
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Tanya Schroeder

About Tanya Schroeder

Tanya is a full time wife and mom, a part time chef/baker, and a wanna be photographer! Tanya believes every once in a while, dessert should be eaten first! Hope you like what you see!

Comments

  4. marcie@flavorthemoments says

    I agree with you on the breakfast for dinner thing! I would eat these ANY time of day.

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  5. Gloria Phillips (@simplygloria1) says

    Love how you love the “real” bacon! To each their own. But seriously, bacon is not ON inside of a turkey!
    This recipe is amazing, Tanya! Pinning onto my Pancake Board!

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  7. Renee says

    This is making the bowl of instant cream of wheat I’m going to eat later at work seem so sad. I absolutely love candied bacon. I can’t wait to try this recipe.

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  9. Meghan @ The Tasty Fork says

    OMG, this sounds amazing!! I think I’d eat that bacon topping on it’s own. 🙂

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  14. Loretta | A Finn In The Kitchen says

    I’m more a fan of the real deal as well, but my hubby prefers turkey bacon. I don’t mind it, but it’s just different.

    Love loads of cinnamon in pancakes! Plus, candied bacon? C’mon 🙂

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  15. Elizabeth F. says

    Oh my! I might have to make these! I’m a big lover of cheating dinner and making breakfast instead. This just sounds divine!

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  16. kalamitykelli says

    Breakfast for dinner is a once a month Sunday night tradition and this is on tap for the next one – pinning!

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  17. Kelly Senyei | Just a Taste says

    Oh my heavens! These look incredible! How can you beat pancakes and bacon for any meal?

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  18. Julie @ This Gal Cooks says

    Pancakes and bacon. Two of my favorite breakfast items! These look good, Tanya! Pinned to my food board!

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  20. Kate | Food Babbles says

    Holy Moly!!! These pancakes look absolutely amazing! I love breakfast for dinner and now I know what we’ll be having next time. Yum!

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  21. Yvette says

    These were amazing I didn’t add the bacon because I was starving and didn’t wanna do the extra work but I added another tbsp sugar and a full tsp of vanilla and yum these are my new go to pancakes

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  22. Rachel @ I Love My Disorganized Life says

    Oh I love candied bacon lately! These pancakes look fabulous! I really need to make breakfast for dinner more often!

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  23. Alyssa says

    I made these this morning for my husband for our anniversary. We both love bacon! I dont know if it was something I did wrong (mis-measured or didnt mix it up well enough? maybe, it was early!) but some of the pancakes tasted salty or bitter. My husband thought it might be from the baking powder. Sadly, they didnt turn out at good as they sounded! 🙁 Might have to try them again and see if it was my mistake.

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  24. Lisa @ Cooking with Curls says

    I saw bacon and came running, with my fork ready!! They look delicious Tanya, I can’t wait to try them. 🙂

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  25. Shannon @ Living Life Cajun Style says

    We do breakfast for dinner often! We are big breakfast lovers also. I do see a problem with having this recipe on the menu. With my love for bacon , I am not sure any of the bacon would make it to the table.

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  26. Carole from Carole's Chatter says

    Hi Tanya, this would be a great contribution to Food on Friday: Breakfast over at Carole’s Chatter. Please do bring it over. Cheers

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  27. Julie says

    I love homemade pancakes too! They are the best and these do not disappoint! My girls love these!

    Reply

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