I’m sharing an easy dinner (or breakfast) recipe that I’ve been making for 25 years!
What in the world are Big Daddy’s?? Just imagine a big puffy crepe or a big puffy pancake (like a souffle). If you’ve heard of German oven or Dutch oven pancakes these are them, but with a much better name! When they come out of the oven they are really huge – so the kids and I named them Big Daddy’s.
If you need a gluten-free Big Daddy, I substitute gluten-free flour for regular flour. These are a yummy gluten-free dish! Just use gluten-free flour and no other changes are needed.
We serve fresh fruit such as bananas, strawberries, blueberries, etc., and a squeeze of lemon and powdered sugar to finish it off for the perfect touch. You can also use pancake syrup.
I’ve also made a savory Big Daddy. I cooked up some bulk breakfast sausage with onions and mushrooms and added the mixture to the top of the Big Daddy’s. Pretty yummy!
Big Daddy's Pancakes
Ingredients
Ingredients for 3-4 People
- 6 eggs
- 1.5 c. flour all-purpose flour or gluten-free flour
- 1.5 c. milk
- ½ c butter I use salted butter (one stick)
Instructions
- Bake in a 9 x 13" baking dish.
- Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees. This is a MUST.
- Place butter in the baking dish. Bake in the oven until melted.
- While the butter is melting, get your batter ready. In a large bowl, beat eggs by hand until well mixed. Add milk and flour and beat well.
- Pour batter directly into hot pan that has the melted butter in it. The butter will rise up over some of the batter (as shown in the pictures). This is normal.
- Bake 20-24 minutes in 450 degree oven until golden brown and completely puffy on the sides.
- Serve immediately.
As you can see there are lots of lumps in my batter. You can use a mixer or blender to mix the batter well (I didn’t this time). You can’t taste the lumps once cooked.
This is what it looks like when it comes right out of the oven. The Big Daddy was baked in a 9 inch baking dish. You can see the melted butter which is one of my favorite parts. Serve immediately. This is a showpiece when you bring it out of the oven. So I always have the family seated at the table before it is removed from the oven.
I added strawberries, bananas, and powdered sugar shown in the picture above. But I usually serve it plain and have several toppings in individual bowls so my family can serve themselves and add the toppings they choose.
Topping Ideas:
Bananas
Strawberries
Blueberries
Raspberries
Applesauce
Syrup
Confectioners Sugar
Strawberries & Whipped Cream
A squeeze of lemon and a sprinkling of powdered sugar.
or you can do any savory type of topping that sounds good to you!
TIPS for making Big Daddy’s:
- Use room-temperature milk for the recipe
- Use room-temperate eggs (I place eggs into a bowl of warm water to get them to room temperature)
- Place a hot pad or wood trivet on your dining room table or kitchen counter so you have a place to set the HOT dish/pan (right out of the oven)
- Make sure your family/guests are seated before you bring the dinner out of the oven
- Little kids can help cut the bananas and strawberries (any other soft fruit) by using a butter knife
- I would keep frozen berries in the fridge for a last-minute “what am I doing for dinner?”. All the other ingredients I always have in my pantry or fridge.
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Fifty bloggers are doing a blog hop to bring all of our readers easy, fantastic dinner ideas! Scroll down to the bottom of the post to see all of the other ideas as well. Thank you to Sarah of Becoming Martha for putting together the blog hop.
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