Apple Dutch Baby Recipe
This Apple Dutch Baby, or German pancakes, is an oven-baked puffed pancake, deliciously perfect in the fall apple season, and always a popular breakfast treat.
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 334kcal
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 apple thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- confectioners’ sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Place a 10-inch cast-iron skillet in the oven as its preheating. In the last couple of seconds, add the butter and let it melt. Remove the skillet from the oven.
- Meanwhile, make the batter and thinly slice the apples. In a bowl whisk together the milk, eggs, maple syrup, and vanilla. Add the flour, cinnamon, sugar, and salt; whisk until very smooth with no dry flour remaining.
- Remove the skillet from the oven and brush the melted butter to grease the sides of the skillet. Very carefully lay thin slices of apple in a pretty pattern.
- Quickly but carefully pour the batter over the apples in the hot skillet.
- Return the skillet to the oven and bake until browned and nicely puffed; 20 to 25 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and dust with confectioners’ sugar.
Notes
- Make ahead: Make the batter the night before and refrigerate until ready to bake. Let the batter come to room temperature before pouring into the hot skillet.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 334kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 157mg | Sodium: 263mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 38g