Pancake dessert ideas
When is a pancake not a pancake? When it’s a pudding. If you tend to have your pancakes as a main course, take a look at these decadent ideas to round off your meal instead. We think all these pancake and crêpe-based recipes are worthy of dessert status.
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Strawberry recipes
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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Perfect pancake toppings
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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Delicious 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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Bonfire Night recipes
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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Pancake recipes
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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Brunch recipes
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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Alpine recipes
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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Sweet pancake recipes
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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Dinner party dessert recipes
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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Sweet pancake recipes
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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Frozen dessert recipes
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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Quick pudding recipes in under 20 minutes
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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Quick pudding recipes in under 20 minutes
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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Sweet pancake recipes
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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Crêpe recipes
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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