Tomorrow is Mother's Day!
If you're still looking for a delicious breakfast to surprise your mum with something tasty, unusual and homemade, I have the solution for you: a Dutch Baby – a super easy and really delicious version of the classic pancake. Unlike the well-known classic, though, the Dutch Baby is baked in the oven rather than fried one by one in the pan. That saves time and nerves! Whether as breakfast or as dessert: with a Dutch Baby you really can't go wrong.
Contrary to what the name suggests, this dish doesn't come from the Netherlands, but from the USA. Since the recipe is closely related to the German pancake, the Dutch Babyis also known as German Pancake.
It was invented in a restaurant in Seattle, where the owner's daughter mistakenly heard «dutch» instead of «Deutsch». Ever since, this kind of pancake has been known as Dutch Baby.
To this day it's a popular breakfast in the USA and can therefore be found on many menus. No wonder, considering that this pancake simply tastes heavenly. Baking it in the oven turns it a lovely golden brown and the edges curl upwards towards the end of the baking time. That gives the Dutch Baby its typical recognisable shape, which sets it apart from classic pancakes, American pancakes and crêpes.
You only need a few ingredients to conjure up this masterpiece. The batter consists of nothing more than flour, eggs, salt, vanilla, sugar and milk. The few ingredients are whisked together in a bowl until you have a smooth, runny batter.
Now comes the trick that will make your Dutch Baby a success: the baking dish goes into the oven while it preheats, so that it gets nice and hot. Then just add a little butter to the dish, pour in the batter and your oven does all the rest of the work. After 15 min. your perfect breakfast is ready and waiting to be eaten.
Served with fresh berries, a little yoghurt and crunchy nuts, you have the perfect Mother's Day breakfast for a cosy start to the day together.
If you like, you can also serve the Dutch Baby, aka "oven pancake", savoury. Smoked salmon, soured cream, all sorts of vegetables or a mushroom ragout go wonderfully with it. Scrambled eggs and bacon are also a popular breakfast variation.
Dutch Baby
- Preparation5 min
- Baking time15 min
- Total20 min
- Calories680kcal
- Carbohydrates95gof which sugars 34 g
- Protein25g
- Fat22gof which saturated 11 g
- Fibre3g
per serving
Ingredients
- 2 tsp butter
- 20 g sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 pkt. vanilla sugar
- 85 g flour
- 125 ml milk
Essential oils
- Madagascar Vanilla
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees top/bottom heat, placing the baking dish in the oven while it preheats.
- Put the sugar, vanilla sugar, a pinch of salt and the eggs in a bowl and whisk until frothy. Mix the flour with the baking powder and add it along with the milk to the egg mixture. Whisk everything together until you have a smooth batter. To intensify the vanilla flavour, add 3 drops Madagascar Vanilla hinzugeben.
- As soon as the oven has reached the desired temperature, carefully take the baking dish out of the oven using two oven gloves, spread the butter around in it and let it melt until the base is coated.
- Pour the batter into the dish and then bake in the oven for approx. 15 min. until golden brown.
- The Dutch Baby tastes best fresh out of the oven. So serve it straight away with the topping of your choice
Notes
Depending on the occasion for which you're serving the Dutch Baby, the toppings can be adapted as you like.
Sweet toppings
Yoghurt, fruit, nuts, cacao nibs, chocolate, ice cream, whipped cream, apple sauce, etc.
Savoury toppings
fried mushrooms, all sorts of vegetables, scrambled eggs, bacon, herbs, mozzarella, etc.
Change the flavour
If the classic vanilla flavour is too boring for you, feel free to add 2 drops of Wild Orange or Lemon to the batter to give the Dutch Baby a refreshing note.
Cooking with essential oils
In this recipe:Lemon OilVanilla OilWild Orange Oil
How to dose essential oils (toothpick method!), when to add them and what to look out for — it is all in the guide.
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