The Best Sheet Pan Pancakes

Sheet pan pancakes have a perfectly fluffy texture and can be customized with everyone’s favorite toppings for a family breakfast everyone will love. Bring on the big-batch breakfast with this recipe that enables you to cook for a crowd in just minutes.

Serves: 6        Time: 30 minutes        Cookbook: Pioneer Woman Online

Get ready to make fluffy pancakes that turn out beautifully golden brown and are customized with everyone’s favorite toppings – all at the same time! No more hassle with making one pancake at a time or pulling out a heavy cast iron griddle so you can flip four flapjacks simultaneously. How will this magic trick occur, you ask? By making Pioneer Woman’s sheet pan pancake recipe!

Oven-baked pancakes are great alternatives to regular pancakes when you need to feed a crowd fast! They’re fast and simple, and each sheet pan makes six servings of delicious pancakes for your hungry family.

The trick to making these easy sheet pan pancakes even easier is to bake the toppings right into the batter and butter your pan before the batter goes in. By completing these two steps, the pancakes pop out easy and mess-free, they’re customized with everyone’s favorite toppings, and they’re ready to eat as soon as you pull them out of the oven. Let’s get cooking!

Jump Ahead:

• ❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
• 🥞 Ingredients Needed to Make Sheet Pan Pancakes
• 🍴 Equipment You’ll Need in the Kitchen
• 🥄 How to Make Sheet Pan Pancakes
• ♾️ Variations on Sheet Pan Pancakes
• ❓ Sheet Pan Pancakes: Tips, Tricks, and FAQs

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Batch Cooking: If you want an easy breakfast recipe to feed a large family, make a giant pancake! This is a breakfast the whole family will love, and it will feed six people at once. Even better – everyone’s favorite topping can be baked into the batter at the same time, so everyone wins.

Easy: This is such an easy recipe that you can easily make it on a weekday morning. Busy mornings don’t have to mean you can’t eat well. Thanks to this recipe, you can turn busy school mornings into a special occasion in a fraction of the time.

Crowd Favorite: You can be sure this will become a family favorite! Whip up a batch of pancakes for a great breakfast everyone will enjoy with different flavors and everyone’s own toppings. If you’re new to sheet pan recipes, this is a great way to get started!

Ingredients Needed to Make Sheet Pan Pancakes

• All-Purpose Flour: This recipe is made with AP flour. If you’re gluten-free, we’d recommend using Bob’s Redmill’s 1-to-1 equivalent GF flour for this recipe.
• Eggs: You want two large eggs for this recipe. If you have medium eggs, you might want to use three.
• Milk: Choose your favorite type of milk from full-fat to 2% or even plant-based milk for this recipe.
• Vanilla Extract: Use vanilla extract, not flavoring, if at all possible. Vanilla flavoring can be used in a pinch if that’s all you have on hand.
• Baking Powder: This magic will help these pancakes rise and give you light and fluffy pancakes straight out of the oven.
• Unsalted Butter: Always use unsalted butter when baking. You’ll add just the right amount of salt into the batter; using salted butter could make the batter too salty.
• Sugar: White or cane sugar is perfect for this recipe.
• Salt: Kosher or sea salt is ideal.
• Toppings of Choice: This is where you get to customize your pancakes. Choose your favorite pancake toppings and different mix-ins like dark chocolate chips, blueberries, strawberry slices, and banana slices.
• Maple Syrup: This is optional, but we highly recommend serving these pancakes with plenty of warm maple syrup!

Equipment Needed In the Kitchen

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• Large Bowl: You’ll want a large mixing bowl to mix the batter in. One is all you need!
• Half Sheet Pan: For the amount of batter this recipe makes, you want a half-sheet pan or a jelly roll pan, not a full-size rimmed baking sheet.
• Spatula: A silicon or food-grade plastic spatula is perfect for cutting and lifting the fluffy pancakes straight out of the pan.

How to Make Sheet Pan Pancakes

Get ready for a family-size batch of pancakes! They’ll whip up in just a few steps, and they’re so good they’ll get devoured faster than you can imagine.

Mix up the homemade pancake batter

First up, set your oven to preheat at 425 degrees F.

While the oven heats up, it’s time to make the batter. Add the eggs, milk, vanilla, flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and four tablespoons of melted butter to a bowl.

Now, get out a whisk and mix the dry ingredients and wet ingredients all together until the batter is perfectly combined and no small lumps can be seen.

Bake the pancakes

Pull out your pan, and grease the bottom and sides well with cooking spray or butter. A well greased baking sheet is key to making sure your pancakes pop out easily when you’re ready to serve. If you don’t have a way to grease your pan, parchment paper can work in a pinch.

Pour batter into the prepared baking sheet. You might need to tilt it to ensure the batter fills the pan in an even layer.

Sprinkle chocolate chips, slices of fresh fruit, and any other toppings you’d like over the top of the pancake batter.

Finally, slide the sheet onto the middle rack and set the cooking time for 15-20 minutes. When the pancake is golden brown on top, it’s done.

Serve

When the pancakes are fully cooked, pull them out and serve warm with butter, maple syrup, and extra toppings in a separate bowl.

These are best enjoyed with butter and plenty of syrup warm. If they cool to room temperature, you can always pop them in the microwave for 15-30 seconds to warm them up.

Variations on Sheet Pan Pancakes

These sheet-pan pancakes are absolutely perfect and can be made in a dozen different ways. Here are some of our favorites!

Mix-Ins: Different add-ins are one of the best ways to customize these pancakes. Want chocolate chip pancakes? Add milk, dark, or white chocolate chips to the batter before you pop it in the oven. Like bananas or strawberries? Slice up some fruit and pop it on top. Combine fruit with chocolate, add nuts, go wild!

Toppings: Serve several different toppings with these pancakes, like maple syrup, honey, peanut butter, Nutella, jam, and lemon zest. You could even pole everyone for their favorite toppings and set out small bowls of each!

Batter Choices: While this won’t work for individual pancakes, you can always change up the batter for the entire batch. Use two and a half cups buttermilk in place or regular milk to make buttermilk pancakes. Use GF flour for gluten-free sheet pan pancakes or whole wheat flour to make pancakes a bit more dense and healthy.

Sheet Pan Pancakes: Tips, Tricks, and FAQs

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