Pancake dessert ideas

When is a pancake not a pancake? When it’s a dessert! These sweet ideas are ideal for Pancake Day but make great indulgent desserts any day of the week.

Chocolate lovers will find our double chocolate stack hard to beat – or try making your own Nutella-style sauce for these caramelised banana pancakes. Fruit fan? How about caramelised pineapple. We’ve also got the French restaurant classic crepes suzette, with orange and caramel, and super-fluffy soufflé pancakes. Which dessert will you end your Pancake Day feast with?

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Strawberry dutch baby with strawberry-top syrup

Strawberries

Strawberry dutch baby with strawberry-top syrup

A dutch baby is a bit like a sweet yorkshire pudding or giant pancake. Fill it with strawberries and ice cream for an easy dessert.

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Caramelised pineapple pancakes

Perfect pancakes

Caramelised pineapple pancakes

These pineapple pancakes are the next best thing to going on a tropical holiday. The caramelised sweetness of the pineapple is tempered with soothing coconut yogurt, and a scattering of crunchy coconut chips.

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Soufflé pancakes

Recipes for one person

Soufflé pancakes

Airy soufflé meets pancakes in our crossover recipe. Watch the pancake puff up in the pan then devour instantly with butter and maple syrup.

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Double chocolate pancake stack

Bonfire Night

Double chocolate pancake stack

Calling all chocolate lovers: behold this chocolate pancake stack drizzled with chocolate sauce! Could Pancake Day get any more decadent?

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Pancakes with caramelised banana and homemade Nutella-style sauce

Sweet pancakes

Pancakes with caramelised banana and homemade Nutella-style sauce

This stack of buttermilk pancakes layered with caramelised banana and drenched in homemade 'Nutella' sauce is the ultimate blow-out brunch.

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Dutch baby with fruity compote and ice cream

Pancakes

Dutch baby with fruity compote and ice cream

A cross between a pancake and a classic British Yorkshire pudding, the Dutch Baby is delicious filled with berry compote and ice cream.

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Coconut pancakes with rum-roasted pineapple

Brunch

Coconut pancakes with rum-roasted pineapple

This recipe adds the tropical combination of pineapple and coconut to pancakes to make brunch even more of a treat.

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Kaiserschmarrn

Alpine

Kaiserschmarrn

Kaiserschmarrn is an Alpine recipe that literally translates as 'Emperor's mess': it's a deep fluffy pancake full of boozy raisins.

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Banana and bourbon crêpe cake

Sweet pancakes

Banana and bourbon crêpe cake

If you're not shy of attention then this is the dessert for you. A stack of crepes in disguise as a cake- a must have recipe for any dinner party repertoire

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Caramel crêpes suzette

Dinner party desserts

Caramel crêpes suzette

Flambéed pancakes always impress at a dinner party! These classic French crêpes suzette can be made in advance for effortless effect.

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Chocolate and hazelnut pancake cake

Sweet pancakes

Chocolate and hazelnut pancake cake

This easy Nutella-drenched pancake cake is the ultimate Pancake Day stack for anyone who can't resist a Nutella crêpe.

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Mint ‘Cornetto’ cake

Frozen dessert

Mint ‘Cornetto’ cake

We've remodelled the classic Cornetto ice cream; ice cream, After Eight mints and chocolate are sandwiched between pancakes in this must-eat summer dessert

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Pancakes with caramel oranges and crème fraîche

Quick puddings

Pancakes with caramel oranges and crème fraîche

Everyone loves pancakes and using ready-made ones means you can whip up an impressive dessert with hardly any effort at all. Try our pancakes with oranges!

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Apple Calvados pancakes

Quick puddings

Apple Calvados pancakes

These apple Calvados pancakes will transform even the most wrinkly apples from the fruitbowl. Make the pancakes in advance and it's an ideal quick dessert.

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Apple pancakes with salted butter caramel sauce

Sweet pancakes

Apple pancakes with salted butter caramel sauce

Eric Lanlard's recipe for apple pancakes, served with an indulgently creamy salted butter caramel sauce - a delightful sweet treat or dessert.

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Tangerine crêpes suzette

Crêpes

Tangerine crêpes suzette

Irresistibly lacy pancakes, in a boozy tangerine sauce, make a great pud any day of the year - an alternative to classic crepes suzette.

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