Blueberry Dutch Baby Pancake Recipe — This oven-baked pancake has the chewiness of crepes with the thickness of clafoutis, and making it is as easy as making pancake batter! Because it’s baked, there’s no need to stand around flipping pancakes!
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Quick Dutch Baby … with Blueberries!
Baking one big pancake in a skillet rather than standing at the stove flipping them one by one is like hitting the pancake jackpot. Enter: the Dutch Baby.
It’s so fast and easy to make and you don’t have to stand at the stove and flip pancakes. Big bonus.
The batter comes together in one bowl with a whisk, and it’s poured over melted butter and blueberries in a skillet, and baked. The berries are juicy and abundant and just burst in your mouth with every bite.
It’s amazing that this recipe uses just two eggs and one-half cup of flour, and that it produces this big pancake that feeds a family, with leftovers. It’s value-based eating at its finest. Lots of bang for your buck both in terms of keeping costs and calories lower.
While it bakes, it puffs up and is pretty impressive looking immediately coming out of the oven, making you look like a seriously talented chef. It falls as it cools, but there’s a nice puffy wow factor right out of the oven. Ironically, there’s no baking soda or powder used. Almost magical puffing thanks to just two eggs.
The Dutch baby is lightly sweetened and satisfying both as a breakfast option or for brinner.
Breakfast-for-dinner when you realize you’ve got 20 minutes to get something on the table and haven’t started anything and your fridge is sparse. If you’ve got 2 eggs and a little flour, you’re in business.
Blueberries can do no wrong.
Blueberry Dutch Baby Ingredients
To make this Dutch baby pancake recipe with blueberries, you’ll need the following:
- Unsalted butter
- Blueberries
- Eggs
- Milk
- Granulated sugar
- Vanilla extract
- All-purpose flour
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Salt
- Confectioners’ sugar (for dusting)
How to Make a Dutch Baby with Blueberries
This is my go-to blueberry breakfast recipe when I need something on the table now. You can use a whisk or a blender to make the batter, then the pancake gets baked. That’s it!
- Place 2 tablespoons butter in a cast iron skillet, then pop it into the oven while it’s preheating.
- Once the butter has melted, sprinkle blueberries evenly onto the skillet.
- Whisk together the Dutch baby batter, then pour it into the skillet.
- Bake the blueberry Dutch baby pancake until the center is set. It will puff up while baking and the edges may curl up; this is normal.
- Allow the homemade Dutch pancake to cool in the skillet momentarily before optionally dusting with confectioners’ sugar.
Dutch Baby Pancake FAQs
What’s a Dutch baby, you ask? A playful name for an oven-baked pancake that has the chewiness of crepes with the thickness of clafoutis. It doesn’t have the sponginess that traditional pancakes have. It’s denser and chewier rather than soft and fluffy.
There are many different recipe names for large, skillet, oven-baked pancakes, going by German oven pancakes, Finnish pancakes or Swedish pancakes, which also go by pannekoeken and Dutch babies. I think there’s plenty of overlap between the recipes.
I don’t know if people from those countries really eat the pancakes with their country’s namesake, or if they’re just Americanized adaptations like ‘French fries’. Whether the Dutch eat this or not, we loved it.
Any large, oven-safe skillet will do. I used my Le Creuset 10-1/4-Inch Skillet. This Lodge Pre-Seasoned Cast-Iron Skillet has 2500+ rave reviews and it’s 15 bucks.
No, you can also bake this Dutch baby pancake recipe in a 9×9-inch baking dish.
I used frozen berries for reasons detailed here, but fresh will of course work. You may need to shorten your baking time slightly.
No, you can omit the blueberries and bake this as a plain Dutch pancake.
Absolutely! Many recipes have you make the batter in a blender, but I used a mixing bowl and a whisk. There’s no need to drag out special kitchen equipment if you don’t have to!
This Dutch baby is best fresh, but extra may be stored airtight in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. I prefer eating the leftover portion cold, like chilled pie, rather than reheating it.
What to Serve with a Dutch Baby Pancake
You can serve this Dutch pancake with a simple dusting of powdered sugar, or you can drizzle a little maple syrup over top. It also pairs nicely with jam and fruit preserves.
Side dishes that pair well with a blueberry Dutch baby include:
- Air Fryer Bacon
- Vanilla Fruit Salad
- Hash Brown Crust Quiche
- Baked Ham and Cheese Omelette
- Waffle Iron Hash Browns
Tips for Making a Dutch Baby Pancake with Blueberries
You can skip the blueberries and keep this Dutch pancake plain, or try another favorite fruit. I can’t get enough blueberries lately, as evidenced by the best muffins, coffee cake, pancake-cake, and loved them in the Dutch baby.
You’re welcome to use any kind of milk you’d like in this Dutch baby pancake recipe. If using a non-dairy milk, make sure it’s unsweetened.
Lastly, be sure to keep a watchful eye on your Dutch baby because it’s baking in quite a hot oven and can burn easily.
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Blueberry Dutch Baby Pancake
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 ¼ cups frozen blueberries, add them frozen, do not thaw first; fresh may be substituted, possibly reducing baking time by a few minutes
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup milk
- 2 to 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- pinch salt, optional and to taste
- confectioners’ sugar for dusting or jam for serving, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F. Prepare a large oven-safe skillet by spraying with cooking spray or greasing it.
- Place butter in the skillet. Put skillet in the oven to melt the butter; it’s okay to put it in while oven is still in preheating mode.
- After butter has melted, about 3 to 5 minutes, remove skillet from oven.
- Evenly sprinkle blueberries over the butter; set skillet aside.
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, milk, granulated sugar, vanilla, and whisk to combine.
- Add the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, optional salt, and whisk until smooth and free from lumps.
- Slowly and evenly pour batter over the blueberries.
- Bake for about 20 minutes, or until center is set. Dutch baby will puff while baking and edges may curl up; this is normal. If using fresh berries, you may need to reduce baking time because they release less water than frozen. Keep a watchful eye on your Dutch baby because it’s baking in quite a hot oven and can burn easily.
- Allow Dutch baby to cool in skillet momentarily before optionally dusting with confectioners’ sugar.
- Carefully slice (don’t scratch your skillet) and serve; optionally spread jam over it.
Notes
- Dutch baby is best fresh, but extra may be stored airtight in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. I prefer the leftover portion cold, like chilled pie, rather than reheating it.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I believe the Dutch do actually make thick, crepe-like pancakes like this. They are often made plain but topped with either sweet or savory things, like ham & cheese or fruit.
No flipping?! I’m in! This looks like such a fun breakfast!
Always looking for a good excuse to use my cast iron skillet!
Hooray for blueberries, my favorite super food. This must smell amazing in the oven! Like, wake you up in the morning and drag you out of bed and into the kitchen to see what the heck is going on kind of amazing!!
YES! It’s THAT! It’s like bread baking from the flour, like baked eggs from the egg in the batter, then the sweet blueberries. It’s 3 amazing smells in one!
And super simple recipe too!!
I always loved visiting my best friend in Denver on her birthday, because her mom would always make a giant German Pancake for breakfast! What an awesome tradition :) So yummy with a touch of powdered sugar.
PS the plates in the top picture? I’m dying!
you’re the 2nd person in this post who’s told me they had these kind of pancakes on their bday!
What a great dish Averie! I’ve always wanted to buy a Le Creuset skillet because I love my Dutch Oven. There’s so many things you can with it! Thanks for sharing! :)
I do love it, so much. It’s SO VERSATILE!
i totally agree, love doing these in a skillet. I pop two in at a time and then we’re done!!
LOVE dutch baby pancakes. Like you said, so much better than flipping one pancake one-by-one. Love the added fresh blueberries in your recipe, I can imagine how light and flavorful this must taste.
I actually used frozen! I save the fresh for eating as-is, and bake with frozen!
I have never made a Dutch Baby…always wanted to…and I find myself with some beautiful fresh blueberries.
:)
Ok, one important question: Can I eat the entire thing? :) Because there’s no way I’m going to be able to stop myself with a single slice! MMM!
LOL – yes, go for it. Two eggs, that’s it! Crazy, huh!
I’ve always wanted to make a Dutch baby and you used blueberries, my favorite. Love this recipe, Averie! :)
I know you love your bb’s. Thanks for pinning!
Do you know if this will work in a heavy ceramic pie plate?
I havent tried it that way but I honestly think you’ll be fine. Just make sure it’s a decent 9 or 10 inch plate, or else scale back the recipe a smidge, so it doesn’t over-puff and run over the edges. LMK how it goes.
I love making things n my skillet! I have 2 small cast iron skillets that look cute with anything in them! haha Deff need to make pancakes in them next!
This has always been on my to-try list, but I’ve never been able to find a good recipe. Problem solved! The denseness of this looks like something I can’t wait to sink my teeth into!
Just read your Chile comment, too. WOW! Congrats!
I love the idea of a one skillet pancake. I never make stuff like pancakes for breakfast because I’m lazy, but I’ll do it later in the day. A skillet pancake? That’s totally doable for breakfast!
It’s mindless, too. Pop it in the oven, no babysitting. Love it.
I want to go to your house for breakfast.
You’d be drinking coffee. I’m all about the brinners. Breakfast for dinner :)