à la mode.
Yes, that’s right: à la mode.
Above, with a big scoop of Vanilla Ice Milk.
Everything is better à la mode.
No exceptions.
Apple Pie Pancakes
(Can be gluten-free!)
Inspired by these guys.
- 1/3 cup flour (ww pastry, white, spelt, arrowhead mills’ gf mix, etc.)
- 2 T rolled oats
- 1/2 cup finely-chopped apple
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2/3 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 T sugar or 1 packet stevia (omit if you don’t want sweet pancakes)
- 1/3 cup nondairy milk (or more, for thinner pancakes)
- If you don’t like the taste of fat-free pancakes, add 1 T oil or vegan butter, and reduce milk by that amount
Combine dry ingredients in a bowl, then add wet. Mix, but don’t overmix. Cook on an oiled (or sprayed) pan, on low-medium, flipping each pancake once.
Top with syrup, nondairy ice cream, or Vanilla Ice Milk.
Or cut up more apple, sprinkle with cinnamon (and perhaps some sweetener), and boil to make an apple compote. (You can search for easy compote recipes online.)
Question of the Day:
Do you ever eat breakfast foods for dessert?
Pancakes, oats, or even the popular Breakfast Pizza Cake?
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I love breakfast for dinner! Actually, my mom used to let us have the sugary cereals ONLY as a dessert. Froot Loops was a favorite…ugh…this looks much tastier.
Yum! Dessert for breakfast is always a good thing!
Beautiful – I haven’t had breakfast for dessert before, but now it looks like I’ll have to try that!
I don’t usually eat breakfast for dessert but I have been adding some of my favorite chocolate peanut butter to my bowl of steel cut oats in the morning. Somehow chocolate at breakfast seems wrong… but it tastes so right!
that looks delicious! I’ll have to give it a try. I’m up for just about anything for breakfast, sweet or savory!
YUM I am so so so so SO having this on Pancake Sunday!! Excited already!!
Haha I have dessert for breakfast AND breakfast for dessert! A pizzert is the best dessert in the WORLD
UM ALWAYS!! i HATEe savory breakfasts! itsnever rare when my breakki is sweet!
I like scones with breakfast – those are the perfect dessert/breakfast hybrid!
I wish I didn’t already eat breakfast, otherwise I would have definitely made these!
Ahhhh these will be perfect for my boys this morning =)
Can I send them to your house for breakfast ha!!
*Swooon* I think you just made my morning
Ahh! Katie, I posted before on your Blueberry Pancakes–again, I’m not really a pancake person, but I randomly got a craving and those hit the spot. I’m headed home from college for the weekend so I’ll finally have access to a stove and (free!) ingredients again; guess what my dinner is going to be?
Love your recipes so much, keep it up!!!
Aww that makes me SO happy!!
Wow, Katie– You did it again!!! This is amazing stuff! And yes– I’m going to have it for dessert!!
Girl, with that first photo, alone, it’s no wonder you’re up for best foodbuzz blog!
mmmm! i’m going apple picking tomorrow, so i think these will be my breakfast on sunday!
Ok, breakfast Sunday is planned.
Thanks!
Oh, yum! Pancakes could totally pass as dessert for me (favourite food ever!), as well as fruit+quark/cream for example. I’ve also eaten dessert for breakfast a few times.
that´s a perfect weekend breakfast
I will make it with apples freshly picked from our apple tree!
I like pancakes for desserts, too. Don´t know whether or not you know “Kaiserschmarrn”? So popular in Germany/Austria. It´s a big fluffy pancake, ripped into pieces while still in the pan, served with raisins and slithered almonds. The vegan version is really good, too
I think every meal should taste like dessert!
I will make this for the perfect saturday breakfast tomorrow using apples from our garden
Why have I never thought of pizzert for dessert????????? MUST make that!
These look amazing Katie! Need to pick up some apples for this weekend to try these and my favorite…your apple cinnamon boatmeal
Hmm do you mean dessert for breakfast or breakfast for dessert lol. Well, I’ve done both I’m pretty sure! I have chocolate with breakfast quite a bit.
Damn girl! You’ve outdone yourself. These look amazing!! Must try em.
Looks devine!
Everything is better a la mode!
I have had my fair share of pancakers for dessert nothin’ like the ole chocolate chipper 
You’ve done it again! I can’t wait for Sunday morning to get here so that I can make them (Sunday’s are my set-aside pancake day). And since apples are in season, they are super cheap and I have a ton in my fruit basket! I just can’t seem to get enough of your recipes
Mmmm looks so good!!!! Yes please!! x
yummy! those look so good. and i always eat breakfast foods for dinner haha. i would gladly eat breakfast all day, everyday
Growing up, I was a really picky eater and used to say that I only liked breakfast foods. I could eat cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner (such a carb overload! Thank God I had my childhood metabolism!). Since my tastes have WAY broadened I am not so big on eating breakfast foods at other times of the day but I have to say that I could for sure be tempted by these pancakes!
LOL I have a neighbor who is on the White Food Only diet… seriously, she eats: white bread pb sandwiches (no jelly), white pizza (no sauce), alfredo, rice, sausage, and she loves cheesecake. And yet somehow she is always healthy! It really proves that not every diet works for everyone (either that or she’ll feel the effects when she gets older
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What a perfect fall breakfast! They look so fluffy and plump…an excellent characteristic to have in a pancake. I don’t normally eat breakfast foods for dessert, but there is a first time for everything! I used to eat dessert for breakfast as a kid. Nothing like pie for a nutritious start to the day!
Wow, that picture is beautiful! At first I thought that those were cookies covered in ice cream but I’m happy to find out they are really breakfast food!! I’ve actually always wanted to make your breakfast pizza so maybe I’ll make it for dessert this weekend!
you know I will be saving this for a gluten free pancake sunday! thanks Katie.
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I have totally done dessert for breakfast, but never breakfast for dessert
All the time..it’s practically my specialty I felt!
Happy Friday!!!
I agree, everything is better a la mode. This look fantastic!
AMAZING. And I actually have all the ingredients!
I don’t have the right pan though…
I was literally in the kitchen making these not even five minutes after I got your email subscription this morning featuring these! They were sooooo good with warm cinnamon syrup drizzled… okay, drenching, them! I even posted it on my own lil blog with a link back to you! Thank you!
http://sidetrackedmom.blogspot.com/2011/10/cinnamon-apple-pancakes-so-delicious.html
I tried to leave a comment on your post… I think your spam filter was hungry lol. Here was my comment:
Oh wow, I am so impressed you not only made the pancakes but also already blogged about them! You are a blogging superstar! Also, I love your syrup idea. It sounds delicious!
This is off-topic, but what is the difference between baking soda and baking powder? Can I use them interchangeably?
Baking powder contains baking soda.
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/foodchemistry/f/blbaking.htm
Thanks Jessy! They’re definitely not interchangeable.
Oh my yum!
Darn Katie! Why must you make such delicious looking foods? You’re making me drool all over my computer!
Mmmmm, perfect for the apple season that started! I’ve got a ton of apples, so can’t wait to try these out
Not sure if I could handle ice cream in the morning atop, but who knows!
Oh these look and sound so good!! I’m pretty sure I MUST make them this weekend!!
My husband loves to eat waffles & pancakes for dessert too 
. But what I like most is having dessert instead of a meal and calling it breakfast! 
Breakfast foods are wonderful for dessert! Even smoothies sometimes! …Or muffins!
Yummy! I have to make these!
Hey Katie. Tried to click on the Vanilla ice milk link and it wouldn’t show it. Can you send me the link and i’ll try to type it in. Sometimes that works. Thanks. The pancakes look yummy and with the ice milk, even yummier!
Ugh, really? It works fine for me… I don’t know what could be wrong. Do you get an error message? Or a blank screen? Or it just never loads??
In any case, I hope this link works: http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/06/15/voluminous-vanilla-ice-cream/
Omg these look absolutely amazing! I could def eat these for dessert!
Do you ever eat breakfast foods for dessert? = yes but nothing as pretty as what you made
More like a handful of cereal but when I was growing up with used to have breakfast for dinner all the time. Pancakes, waffles, eggs were also dinnertime recipes.
The pics are fabulous. Melting things, i.e. the ice cream = hard to photography b/c you have to be FAST. Great job!
These look awesome! I’m definitely trying these out this weekend — I have so many apples from picking them!
I’m going to make an apple compote to top them with for an extra apple-y flavour
Why hello Saturday morning breakfast!!
I don’t eat breakfast for dessert I eat it as my main course! I could eat breakfast foods all day long!
WOW. These look super tasty. I love the combination of apples and cinnamon.
And of course I eat breakfast for dessert! My favorite is belgian waffles with icecream on top! Or a yogurt parfait with granola, or better yet, one of your milkshakes!
Um, I eat breakfast foods for DINNER
No shame
Congratulations on getting nominated Katie!!! That is so cool, and so well-desereved!
These looks fantastic!! I love warm apple things, and these sounds like they will taste like apple pie! MMMMM
Oh my goodness – these pancakes are calling my name! The way the syrup and ice cream are dripping down the side of the pancake stack looks so yummy!
Yum!! I have a fall pancakes recipe for tomorrow
HOLY CRAP.
Did this recipe seriously happen?
I cannot wait to try this recipe!!
Oats in pancakes never work for me for some reason. They stick and don’t flip and fall apart when I try. Otherwise I would be all over these.
I have the awful habit of always needed something sweet after a savory meal. So, yes, I do sometimes eat breakfast foods for dessert, and have been known to nosh on a bowl of cereal right after dinner. But my favorite discovery is dessert for breakfast by frying up a sliced banana or two in one teaspoon or two of olive oil (with a 1/2 TBS of brown sugar, optional) and then adding THAT to my oatmeal! Extremely amazing how the caramelized banana tastes with oatmeal … and sometimes I’ll add in some golden raisins too
… but then I start thinking about adding RUM to my oatmeal, and that’s a door that should just remain closed … unless I’m on a cruise maybe 
This looks like a perfect recipe to help use up th 20 lbs of apples I picked…apple pancakes for a month:)
Yum, these sound really good. Definitely going to try them in the next week!
Ok, these are seriously the best pancakes ever! I made them and I love how thick they come out and even without sugar they were sweet. Thanks for the awesome recipe!!!!!!!
Love how hearty these pancakes look! No whimpy breakfast here.
I’ve been known to have cocoa-laced oats for dessert. Oh, and my evening smoothies definitely fall into the breakfast-for-dessert category.
That does look like dessert! I sometimes eat hot oatmeal for dinner with a piece of whole wheat toast and sometimes I have it for a snack. I love oatmeal!
Usually, I’m not a fan of apples in my food if it’s cooked (aka: baked oatmeal, cakes, etc.) except for oatmeal but that stack of pancakes makes me drool!!
I picked apples last weekend and I think this sounds like a great breakfast this weekend
Hey, Katie! I just tried these. I like the taste, but they were a little mush in the middle — I even cooked two of them until they were dark brown (crispy) on the outside, but the inside was still mushy.
I like thick pancakes — and the flavor of these was JUST right (I did 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon btw — I love me some cinnamon) any advice?
Hmmm… I didn’t have that problem, so maybe it has to do with a specific flour or a particular ingredient, or maybe even stove temperatures. But you might try using a little bit more liquid so that they’re less thick (and thus they will not rise as much, so more of the batter will touch the hot stove). If you do try this, I’d love to know if it works better!
I’m going to have to make these SOOOON!! I just picked a whole bunch of apples from our orchard, and this is the perfect way to use them!
Breakfast foods for dessert, dessert foods for breakfast… breakfast and dessert are the same words in my book
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I just made these for Saturday breakfast and they were a huge hit! I love apple pie and this is the perfect way to ‘indulge’ early in the day! I may try freezing them to have during the week.
I am so excited you already tried the recipe!
Is there any chance you have this (or any) recipes for more than just 1…like say a family of 5? It’s too early for me to do math! (lol) Looks fabulous. Maybe I’ll try someday when it’s just me.
Wow, I just looked at it and you’re right… all of my pancake recipes are single-serving! You can easily make them multiple-serving by quadrupling (or more) all the ingredients… but yeah lol, that means math. Ugh math
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I’ll try to remember to post a non-single-serving pancake recipe in the future!
I wanted to make more at one time too and found this awesome website… just plug in the original ingredients & amounts and tell it by how much you want to multiply… tada! It does all the work for you! Here is the apple pancake recipe I tripled (if I can link it directly to the one I entered: http://www.fruitfromwashington.com/Recipes/scale/makeconversion.php)
Recipe Adjustment Factor is 3 Times Original Amounts (Original Amounts in parentheses.)
apple pancakes
1 cup flour
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons rolled oats
1 1/2 cups finely chopped apple
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon vanilla
3 tablespoons sugar
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons butter
Combine dry ingredients in a bowl, then add wet. Mix, but don’t overmix. Cook on an oiled (or sprayed) pan, on low-medium, flipping each pancake once.
The direct link didn’t work.. here’s the blank worksheet on the site: http://www.fruitfromwashington.com/Recipes/scale/recipeconversions.php
Yes!!! I love to take thick oatmeal (usually flavoured with cinnamon and stevia) and put soy ice cream on top. It sounds weird, but is actually very tasty!
nice katie! so creative.
I’m eating these right now for my Sunday morning breakfast sans the ice cream! YUMMY!! These are so Fall-licious!!
I added some chopped pecans to mine…Mmmmm! 
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Thank you again for such wonderful and healthy recipes!
I love your idea to add pecans! It sounds like Fall on a plate lol
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These are perfect for the season! I had some today, and you have outdone yourself this time! Pure perfection.
Aww so excited you made them, Michelle!
I’ve been known to put a scoop of vanilla ice cream on french toast… Vanilla coconut ice cream is the best. BUT- I just looked at your recipe for vanilla ice milk and HELLO!! I am making that!!
Holy crap! You are trying to kill me! I need these in my life, like now!
I made these yesterday for my son for breakfast. HE LOVED THEM!!!!!!! They were awesome!!!! Thanks so much for sharing all your wonderful recipes.
Aww thank YOU for trying them!!
I first thought that these were cookies! Mmm either way, they look delicious. We have “dessert” for breakfast all the time. You’re not alone on that at all
Hey! Tried these not too long ago and they were delicious! I blogged about it here: http://healthyisfun.tumblr.com/post/11314830668/apple-pie-pancakes-original-recipe
I love your blog, thank you so much for sharing all your great recipes. I’m not a vegan, but I enjoy everything you post! Keep up the good work!
I just made these and ate them with a couple of over-medium eggs. AMAZING. LIKE. VERY THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE. thank you. I’m going to try the blueberry ones next, I think =)
Just made these. Holy. Moly. Epic! I’ll be blogging about it soon and will be sure to give you a shoutout!
These are sooooo good!!! You have the best pancake recipes ever!! Love them and love you! I love having breakfast for dinner!!!
In Japan (where I grew up) we eat pancakes, waffles, and other sweet baked goodies, which are commonly eaten for breakfast in the US, for desserts in the mid afternoon (not after dinner). I was shocked when I saw pancakes served for breakfast for the first time right after I moved to the US. I now eat pancakes for breakfast occasionally, but I still eat mostly Japanese breakfast foods for breakfast and keep so called American breakfast foods for afternoon snacks.
PS: Just in case you are wondering what Japense eat as after-dinner desserts, we eat fresh fruits.
Hi Katie!
I just tried these pancakes out, and They. Were. Phenomenal! Thank you so much for the brilliant post! I am not a vegan, rather, I more or less try to watch my calorie intake. That said, I added about a tablespoon of light whipped butter and an egg white, and used almond breeze vanilla as my milk. I also used splenda for my sweetener. I know many follow a vegan diet on this site, or do not like to use artificial ingredients, but for those who do, they work superb! Keep them coming Katie, I look forward to reading your e-mails every day
Aww I’m so happy you liked them!
I made these yesterday w/ a braeburn apple and a squirt of honey.
Let me just say, it wasn’t good.
It was spectacular! The apples got caramelized when they were cooking and resulted in a delicious, sweet pancake! Normally, I hate adding apples to any of my foods that are going to be cooked or baked (had a sour experience once, literally), but I’ve only come across 2 recipes (one of them is this recipe) that I absolutely love with apples :]
OMG. So cinnamony and delicious!
The recipe made about five small pancakes though, which was great as a morning snack, so I’ll double the recipe for breakfast one day.
Thanks for sharing!
Is there something I could substitute the oats with? I’m on a strict elimination diet and I’m not allowed oats yet
but I really want to try these!!
Sorry, I really don’t know.
Heyy!!
I just made these!! Only, instead of using chopped-up apples, I made a big pan of apple compote ((apples stewed with cinnamon and agave)) first, put half to the side to let it cool, and used this instead of the apples and sweetener. The cinnamon really comes through well this way!!
Then use the rest of the compote as a topping – lovely!!
Thanks Katie, and keep up the great work!!
Jade C
Delicioso! I added a couple teaspoons of oil to the batter. Yummy!
Just tried these…oh my goodness.
Best breakfast I have had in a LONG time!!
I’d eat them again tomorrow but I am trying all of your recipes.
Hi! Can you sub quick oats (on hand for your cookie pie!) instead of the rolled oats? I’m not really an oatmeal person, so I don’t know anything about oats!
I’ve only tried it with regular, so I can’t say for sure.
On another post I saw that you can freeze these and thaw them. How is it best to freeze them and for how long? What about thawing? These look like a great dessert for work to heat up in the microwave!
You can freeze for up to a couple months! And then either thaw overnight in the fridge or for a few minutes in the microwave… or use the oven
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Ok, now I’m starting to feel like your blog stalker. I swear I’ve been on here at least 5 times in the last 24 hours!
And of course I’ve been telling all my health conscious family and friends about you. Just made these for lunch with some homemade turkey sausage patties and I’m thinking nothing could have been better. I honestly didn’t think they could live up to your description but, would be good just the same (and healthy too!) So, I think they really do taste like eating a warm pie….will definitely be making these again! And I LOVE the simplicity of your recipes. If feel like after making them just a few times I will have them memorized. Makes my life as a mom just that much easier. Thanks!
Katie – I JUST made these for the first time this morning for breakfast. Mine didn’t turn out half as pretty as your photos show yours, but that didn’t affect the taste at all! YUM! I spread some almond butter on top of mine and it was just heavenly! Thanks for the fun ideas!
Katie, I’m sure you’ll be pleased to know that even when one begins making this recipe (for the hundredth time), and then realizes that one has no apples whatsoever in their house (for the first time ever), and thus ends up making hot apple pie pancakes sans apples, these still turn out glorious.
I made these for breakfast today and they were absolutely delicious! Topped with some cooked apples and banana, as well as some sunflower seed butter, plus a dash of cinnamon, this was the perfect way to start my day and so satisfying! Thanks for such a great recipe
Delicious. Absolutely wonderful, and so easy to make.
Just made these….yumm-o! I actually cooked my apples first for about 7 minutes over med-low heat to soften them up…threw in a tad bit of lemon juice, a pinch of salt and cinnamon, and a tsp. of xylitol. Then once they cooled down a bit I threw folded them in with the rest of the ingredients. I used a gluten free mix that I make here at home (finely ground brown rice flour, a little sorghum flour, a pinch of xanthan gum, potato starch, and arrowroot starch…or tapioca could be used for those who can tolerate it), which already had a little bit of xanthan gum, so they held together perfectly. The texture was identical to that of a wheat pancake, only heartier and more filling because of the oats. I topped mine with some whipped cream made from the coconut fat in the canned milk, and then I sprinkled on a few walnuts and drizzled just a tiny bit of maple-flavored agave. So not entire healthy, but still WAAAAY better than IHOP! I’m going to see if I can actually bake these into little mini fluted tube cakes and blog about them on my bundt cake blog! You’ll see a link-back if I accomplish this fete.
xoxo
Ooh good luck, girl!
I think i might have done somthing wrong… I followed the recipe but mine were raw inside. I cooked them low-medium heat and only flipped them once but only the outside cooked not in inside. What did I do wrong?
It’s impossible for me to know, since I wasn’t there
Maybe making them too big? Or using a different flour? Or accidentally too much liquid?
Okay, I’ll try it again this weekend and let ya know how it goes:P I really want them, they look soo good
Thanks for replying:)
I finally tried them out this week and…. they were sooo delicious!! They didnt cook last time because I added too much milk:P Im soo glad I decided to try them again! So yummy, even my sister couldnt stop trying to eat them off my plate haha
omg i made these these morning and i have only one word for them……DELICIOUS!!!! you should know that i make your pancakes every morning and im so excited to wake up just because im excited to make them!…i think i should eat them for lunch also….ahahaha
Katie, me and my son have both been recently diagnosed with egg, sugar and wheat allergies. Being known for my baking, this was devastating for me! I’ve been crying my way through breakfasts, trying to make things (especially pancakes) that everyone can eat, only to have disaster after disaster being thrown away in the garbage. These pancakes put such a huge smile on everyone’s face – and I’m so excited to try some of the others. We’re considering going vegan because it seems to supplement this diet so well, and after watching forks over knives last night, I think it sealed the deal. I’m nervous to try it, especially for my little 3 year old, because I hear so many claims on both sides, some pointing out dangerous risks coming from the vegan diet (mostly deficiencies). I’m worried about getting enough calcium in our diets, especially if we don’t eat soy. Any recommendations for good blogs/books to help us get started? Especially sites that are sensitive to people with wheat/soy /sugar allergies. Thanks so much for what you’re doing!!!
Aw, so glad my pancakes were a hit!
I really like The Vegetarian Way, by Virginia Messina, because it has chapters on all the nutrients. But a quick google search also led me to this: http://www.vegansoapbox.com/soy-free-and-vegan-is-it-possible/
Maybe it’ll be somewhat helpful for you! Good luck!
Hi Katie,
I, too, am reaching stalker-status here. Found you last night via Pinterest and now I’ve read many of your posts and I’ve already made these pancakes! I doubled the recipe and it was just right for me and my 2 little boys. I made them with no changes except I served them plain and they just dipped them in applesauce. I didn’t know a 1-yr old could eat that much of anything!
I’m a vegetarian and looking forward to surprising my non-veg family with more of your delicious HEALTHY treats! Thanks!
You are so welcome! Thank YOU for trying the recipes… and for such a kind comment
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OH GOD I JUST FOUND THESE ONES!!! I will be making these tomorrow instead. Or maybe in addition. And adding bananas anyway. HOW are you such a pancake goddess?!
I can’t wait to try these!
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