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Reindeer Pancakes

November 22, 2023 by Alea Milham 1 Comment

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How to make Reindeer Pancakes - Recipe and assembly tips

Surprise the family with these adorable reindeer pancakes on Christmas morning (or any morning during the holidays for that matter).
A light fluffy pancake recipe and instructions for assembling your own Reindeer Pancakes with bacon antlers make a fun Christmas breakfast for your family.
Did you know you can assemble pancakes, bacon, and fruit into the most adorable of red-nosed reindeers? Not only do we have the assembly instructions for these Reindeer Pancakes but we also have a tasty recipe for fluffy pancakes that you will want to use to make pancakes year-round.

Pancakes: Use our recipe below or use your favorite recipe.

Bacon: You want to cook the bacon in flat strips. If you wish, you can cook the bacon in the oven while you are making the pancakes on the griddle.

Reindeer Pancakes Recipe

These delicious reindeer pancakes are made with bacon antlers, blueberry eyes, and a raspberry nose.

Ingredients:

Pancake Ingredients:

  • 2 cups flour
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ¾ cups milk
  • ¼ cup (½ stick) butter, melted but cooled slightly

Ingredients needed to assemble each Reindeer:

  • 12 slices bacon, 3 for each reindeer (How to cook bacon in the oven)
  • 4 Raspberries, 1 for each reindeer
  • Whipped topping (Homemade whipped cream recipe)
  • 8 Blueberries, 2 for each Reindeer

Instructions:

    1. In a medium bowl, whisk together dry ingredients: flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
    2. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, and vanilla. Then, slowly add the butter.
    3. Create a well in the middle of the dry ingredients. Pour wet ingredients into the well and stir the batter until combined. There may be small lumps. Allow the batter to rest for at least 5 minutes.
    4. Heat a griddle to 300 degrees. Spritz with non-stick cooking spray or coat with additional butter prior to adding batter.
    5. For the reindeer, pour about 1 cup batter on the griddle as the base of the head. Pour about ⅓ cup batter into another circle to be the reindeer snout. When bubbles begin to break on the surface of the pancakes, flip and cook for an additional 2 to 3 minutes or until completely cooked through. Repeat until you have 4 large and 4 small pancakes.
    6. To decorate the reindeer, place the larger pancake on the lower half of a large plate. Place the smaller pancake over the bottom portion of the first pancake. Place a raspberry in the center of the top pancake as the reindeer’s nose. Break one piece of bacon in half. Arrange the two full slices of cooked bacon to stretch from under the top pancake across the plate. Lay the bacon halves across the whole piece to form antlers. Just before serving, add two small dots of whipped cream over the nose and add a blueberry on each whipped cream dot.
    7. Repeat until you have assembled all of the reindeer pancakes.

Serve immediately.

Christmas Morning Reindeer Pancakes Recipe

Printable Recipe for Reindeer Pancakes

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Reindeer Pancakes Recipe

These reindeer pancakes are made with bacon antlers, blueberry eyes, and a raspberry nose.
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Keyword Christmas Breakfast Idea, Reindeer Pancakes
Prep Time 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes minutes
Total Time 25 minutes minutes
Servings 4
Author Alea Milham

Ingredients

Pancake Ingredients:

  • 2 cups flour
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ¾ cups milk
  • ¼ cup butter melted but cooled slightly

Ingredients needed to assemble each Reindeer:

  • 12 slices bacon 3 for each reindeer
  • 4 Raspberries 1 for each reindeer
  • Whipped topping Homemade whipped cream recipe
  • 8 Blueberries 2 for each Reindeer

Instructions

  • In a medium bowl, whisk together dry ingredients: flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, and vanilla. Then, slowly add the butter.
  • Create a well in the middle of the dry ingredients. Pour wet ingredients into the well and stir the batter until combined. There may be small lumps. Allow the batter to rest for at least 5 minutes.
  • Heat a griddle to 300 degrees. Spritz with non-stick cooking spray or coat with additional butter prior to adding batter.
  • For the reindeer, pour about 1 cup batter on the griddle as the base of the head. Pour about ⅓ cup batter into another circle to be the reindeer snout. When bubbles begin to break on the surface of the pancakes, flip and cook for an additional 2 to 3 minutes or until completely cooked through. Repeat until you have 4 large and 4 small pancakes.
  • To decorate the reindeer, place the larger pancake on the lower half of a large plate. Place the smaller pancake over the bottom portion of the first pancake. Place a raspberry in the center of the top pancake as the reindeer’s nose. Break one piece of bacon in half. Arrange the two full slices of cooked bacon to stretch from under the top pancake across the plate. Lay the bacon halves across the whole piece to form antlers. Just before serving, add two small dots of whipped cream over the nose and add a blueberry on each whipped cream dot.
  • Repeat until you have assembled all of the reindeer pancakes.

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About Alea Milham

Alea Milham is the owner of Premeditated Leftovers and the author of Prep-Ahead Meals from Scatch. She shares her tips for saving money and time while reducing waste in her home. Her favorite hobby, gardening, is a frugal source of organic produce for her recipes. She believes it is possible to live fully and eat well while spending less.

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  1. Super Mom - No Cape! says

    November 26, 2018 at 6:15 pm

    That is simply adorable!! Kids (of all ages) would love that. 🙂

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On Premeditated Leftovers I share simple recipes made with whole foods, practical shopping tips, time saving techniques, and meal planning strategies. I also share tips for minimizing food waste, so more of the food that is purchased ends up on the table.

While volunteering as a budget counselor, I realized that food is the element of most people’s budgets where they have the greatest control. I set out to develop low-cost recipes from scratch to prove it’s possible to create delicious meals on a limited budget. Eating well while spending less is about more than just creating recipes using inexpensive ingredients; it’s about creatively combining ingredients so you don’t feel deprived and are inspired to stick to your budget.

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