Red Velvet Pancakes
This recipe is our new favorite excuse to eat cake for breakfast (not that we needed one). The Loveless Café, Nashville's famous down-home spot for southern comfort food, is best known for their flakey stacked biscuits--but we absolutely love their festive layer cake-inspired pancakes just as much. Much like traditional red velvet cake, these cocoa pancakes are served with a delightful sweet and tangy cream cheese butter to cushion in between each flapjack.
How to Make It
Step 1
Sift together first 6 ingredients into a large bowl. Whisk together buttermilk and next 3 ingredients in another bowl. Gradually stir buttermilk mixture into flour mixture just until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour about 1/4 cup batter for each pancake onto a hot buttered griddle or large nonstick skillet. Cook 3 to 4 minutes or until tops are covered with bubbles and edges look dry and cooked. Turn and cook 3 to 4 minutes or until done. Place in a single layer on a baking sheet, and keep warm in a 200° oven up to 30 minutes. Serve with Sweet Cream-Cheese Butter.
Step 2
Note: When using a griddle, heat it to 350°.
Step 3
Tip: For tender pancakes, don't overmix the batter; it should be lumpy.
Prom mom's review
Made these for post prom breakfast. Total success. While I had to add just a touch more buttermilk for consistency, I otherwise followed the recipe. They were very cake like and exactly what I expected. The cream cheese butter is divine.
kslighthouse's Review
This recipe was amazing. I thought it tasted like red velvet cake, only I use a cooked icing when I make my red velvet cake. I would give this 4 stars but the Sweet Cream Cheese Butter recipe makes a lot. I halved both the pancake recipe and the Sweet Cream Cheese Butter and it was more then we could use. Next time I will make 1/4 of the Sweet Cream Cheese Butter.
YankYank38's Review
They tasted more like chocolate pancakes rather than red velvet. I will use less cocoa next time.
deerfisherman's Review
these are delicious! followed recipe exactly. yummy!
Mardimelt's Review
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detailaddict's Review
As a pancake recipe, this is really good. The pancakes cooked up moist and cake-y and were quite filling. But I can't really speak to the "red velvet" part yet as I modified the recipe to make them healthier and less sweet. I used white wheat flour and omitted the powdered sugar entirely (which was just as well, as the batter would have been too thick), and tried using the juice of 1 pureed beet for the coloring. The cocoa and the darker flour overpowered the red color so that the pancakes were simply a chocolate color, although they tasted great - chocolatey with no "beet" flavor. I also used fat-free vanilla Greek yogurt instead of the cream cheese butter, and this made a fine substitute. Next time I will try more beet juice and less cocoa for a redder color, and maybe mix some cream cheese into the yogurt.
Absolutely Amazing