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Cinnamon Roll Pancakes are a cinnamon roll and pancakes all in one! Drizzled with a delicious cream cheese glaze.
Over the Labor Day weekend we visited our son Logan in San Diego. We had lots of fun and ate lots of great food. One of my favorite places we ate was Snooze, a fun, funky and delicious breakfast spot. Logan was working so we went on our own but he told us we had to try the Cinnamon Roll Pancakes.
When I got home I kept dreaming about those pancakes so I did a little googling and found today’s recipe for Cinnamon Roll Pancakes over at Recipe Girl. Now these pancakes aren’t exactly like the ones I had at Snooze but they are delicious in their own right!
You can use your favorite pancake recipe or even pancake mix if you’d like.  I love using our favorite Buttermillk Pancake Recipe. The thing that makes these pancakes so amazing is the cinnamon sugar ribbon through the pancake and the cream cheese drizzle.
Ingredients Needed
- Buttermilk Pancake Mix, use your favorite recipe
- Butter
- Light Brown Sugar
- Cinnamon
- Cream Cheese
- Powdered Sugar
- Vanilla Extract
How To Make Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
- Make pancake batter according to your recipe, set aside.
- Mix together melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.
- Put filling into a quart size heavy zip baggie and set aside.
- Heat butter in a small pan on low until melted.
- Remove from heat and whisk in cream cheese until almost smooth.
- Sift in the powdered sugar, stir and then add in vanilla extract.
- Add cinnamon mixture to a freezer ziplock bag.
- Coat a large nonstick skillet or electric skillet with non stick spray.
- Scoop batter onto griddle (approx. 1/3 C of batter) and cook over medium low heat until pancakes begin to set and bubbles form.
- Snip corner of baggie with cinnamon filling and swirl the filling into the pancake, starting at center and move outwards. Don’t get too close to the outside edge of pancake.
- Flip pancake when bubbles on the edge of the pancake begin to pop.
- Cook until pancake is set.
- Remove pancake from griddle and drizzle with cream cheese glaze.
Tips from leigh Anne
- When you flip right side up you will see that the cinnamon mixture will have formed a crater in your pancake.
- When you flip right side up you will see that the cinnamon mixture will have formed a crater in your pancake. Don’t panic, this is how it is supposed to look.
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Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
Ingredients
Pancakes
- Use your favorite pancake recipe my Buttermilk Pancake recipe or a pancake mix.
Cinnamon Filling
- 1/4 C of butter melted but don’t allow to boil
- 1/4 C plus 2 Tbsp packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 Tbsp cinnamon
Cream Cheese Glaze
- 1/4 C butter
- 2 oz. cream cheese softened
- 3/4 C powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
Instructions
Cinnamon Filling
- Mix together melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Put filling into a quart size heavy zip baggie and set aside while you make the pancakes.
Cream Cheese Glaze
- In a small pan heat the butter on low until melted. Remove from heat and whisk in cream cheese until almost smooth. Sift in the powdered sugar, stir and then add in vanilla extract.
Pancakes
- Make pancakes according to your recipe.
- Use a large nonstick skillet or electric skillet to cook pancakes. Coat with non stick spray.
- Scoop batter onto griddle (approx. 1/3 C of batter) Cook over medium low heat.
- Snip corner of baggie with cinnamon filling and when pancakes begin to form bubbles, add the filling. Start at center and move outwards. Don’t get too close to the outside edge of pancake.
- When bubbles on pancake begin to pop flip the pancake. Cook until done.
- When you flip right side up you will see that the cinnamon mixture will have formed a crater in your pancake.
- Drizzle with cream cheese glaze and enjoy.
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Kathryn says
Holy CRAP!! These are GOOOD!!!
Erin says
I wanted to love these and the taste is there (I used 1t. cinnamon in the swirl for more flavor). My swirls were a mess and didn’t turn out. The swirl batter seemed like it had WAY too much butter and needed something to bind the liquids together. They were made as stated in the recipe and they just absorbed and became a candy substance. Thoughts on how to improve the swirl are welcome, because the taste and consistency of the buttermilk pancakes were 10 stars.