Red Christmas Gingerbread Pancakes
These RED CHRISTMAS Gingerbread Pancakes are fun for the holidays! This recipe is easy to make for a family! Serve them with a powdered sugar frosting tree on top! Perfect for Christmas morning breakfast!
One of my favorite parts of the holidays is Christmas morning. As a kid my parents had a rule that I had to stay upstairs until they went downstairs first and put on the tree lights. When Santa came on Christmas Eve came he would decorate our tree, so the first time I would see it all lit up and decorated is Christmas Morning. Mom and Dad had a good idea here, don’t let the kids involved in tree decorating. Instead, lie to them and tell them they better not decorate because it’s Santa’s job and Santa will be angry if he doesn’t have a tree to decorate. It’s not like Santa doesn’t have millions of other plans that night, right?
Christmas Breakfast recipe
Now we decorate our tree weeks in advance, but Christmas morning is still special. Why? Because it’s one of the most delicious breakfast meals of the year! There’s always bacon sizzling, bread toasting, eggs however you want and the big plate of pancakes. Oh yes, would it be a holiday morning without the sweet smell of maple syrup poured over moist and delicious pancakes?
I wanted to make a festive pancake recipe. Something that not only the adults will love to eat because of how delicious they are, but the kids will love because it’s fun. First of all, these pancakes are gingerbread flavored. With each bite, it feels like you are eating a soft piece of a gingerbread cookie. And boy do they smell like gingerbread cookies!
Christmas pancakes recipe
Next up is their color. What says fun food more than bright colors? We toss the batter with some red food coloring to give it a rich Christmas coloring. Feel free to have fun here and get your kids involved. Maybe you want to do half red pancakes, half green pancakes instead? Go for it!
After you add the food coloring and put these on the griddle you’ll be left with some fluffy pancakes ready for the family to enjoy!
I loooove the holidays so I wanted to make these extra space. I frosted up a ice cream cone and put it upside down on the pancakes, making it look like a White Christmas Tree.
Then I added powder sugar all over the pancakes to give it some sweet snow. In this case, let it snow!
Enjoy and have a great holiday breakfast!
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Holiday Gingerbread Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon dried ginger
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cup water
- Red food coloring I use the color "Christmas Red"
- Optional: Powdered Sugar Butter, Icing or Syrup on top.
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon and brown sugar.
- Make a well in the middle and add egg, vanilla and water. Continue to whisk everything so equally combined.
- Add a few dots of red food coloring in batter and stir.
- Spray a griddle or pan with nonstick spray. Drop 1/3 cup of batter for each pancake.
- Wait until pancake is cooked on one side, then flip to other side and repeat.
- Continue to do this until all batter is gone.
- Add powdered sugar, butter, icing or syrup on pancakes and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Makes 12 small-medium sized pancakes.
OMG this is soooo cute!!! And your GIF of the “snow” falling is fantastic!!!!
This is so festive! I love it! I got a package of gingerbread pancake mix last year – it was like SUPER dark brown, so not as pretty but very very tasty! Yum!
These pancakes are everything! Yes I am so ready for Christmas now!
Never had red pancakes before! Love the idea, though, so you know I will. And gingerbread? Yes, please. I hope you have a very Happy Thanksgiving!
I am so ready for these pancakes, the colour is so vibrant, it is inviting enough 😀
Great photos!
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These look incredible and festive!
How pretty are those pancakes and that creamy tree is just gorgeous sitting on top of the stack. I use Bob’s products all the time. High quality that is always consistent.
So cute and festive! I don’t think I will be able to eat these pancakes just because they are so pretty!!
Love that gif! Love the pancakes. Love this blog. Perfection !
Let it snow let it snow! 😀 This is awesome! Wonderful to see and I think delicious to eat 🙂 I wish it was Christmas already! (The gif is very nice!!!)
We set up our Christmas tree at work today, I am sooooo ready for the holidays, even more after this post. What a delicious and delightful pancake. Yarm!
So festive I love them what an amazing breakfast these would make when you woke up on christmas day 😀
I love the idea of Santa decorating the tree. We usually eat Monkey Bread Christmas mornings but these pancakes sound like the PERFECT Christmas breakfast!
Get out! Did you see that snow?! These are the most amazing pancakes EVER!
love these pancakes. . so fun and festive and the powdered sugar is like snow. . perfect!! yes, I too love the smell of pancakes, bacon and maple syrup on Christmas morning. . perfection!!
Love your celebration of the season AND these scrumptious gingerbread pancakes, Pamela! Pinning – of course =)
Oh my goodness that gif is amazing and isn’t Santa clever in knowing that sometimes he knows best when it comes to bauble placement? Haha cute story!
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