Julie Clark
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Oatmeal Pancakes Recipe
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This thick & hearty, easy oatmeal pancakes recipe gets your family ready for the day. An easy breakfast idea!
Looking for pancakes with a nutty flavor and whole-grain oats? This oatmeal pancakes recipe is delicious with butter and maple syrup or brown sugar, raspberry sauce, strawberry topping or cranberry sauce during the holidays.
Saturday morning calls for the best oatmeal pancakes.
In the first few months that we started sharing recipes with you, we shared a crazy amount of pancake recipes like cinnamon roll pancakes, ginger spice pancakes, honey wheat pancakes, cornmeal pancakes, funfetti pancakes and peanut butter chocolate chip pancakes.
These days, I eat oatmeal in some form for nearly every breakfast. It might be baked oatmeal, oatmeal breakfast cookies, hearty oatmeal, or shhhh…even oatmeal chocolate chip bars.
This recipe comes from an old Amish cookbook and needed just a tiny bit of tweaking. My kids are fabulously honest recipe taste-testers. They woke up to these pancakes about 4 mornings in a row as I was testing them. They truly loved the homemade pancakes that tastes similar to baked oatmeal.
We LOVE this pancake griddle for easy pancake making! Try it with our carrot cake pancakes and protein pumpkin pancakes.
Enjoy! -Julie
Key Ingredients
Quick oats. Old fashioned oats are rolled whole oat kernels. Quick oats are when the oat kernels are cut into smaller pieces before being rolled. This results in smaller oat flakes that will take less time to cook. If you don’t have quick oats, place the rolled oats in a food processor or blender and pulse 4-5 times until they are in smaller pieces.
Sour cream and vegetable oil. These both keep the pancakes extra tender. Use Greek yogurt in place of sour cream if you prefer.
Flour. Make this oatmeal pancake recipe gluten free with all-purpose gluten-free flour.
Pancake Toppings
100% pure maple syrup is a classic oatmeal pancake topping, but what if you’re looking for something a little different to put on pancakes? Here are some ideas:
- A drizzle of warm peanut butter and bananas
- Hazelnut spread
- Fresh fruit and whipped cream
- Powdered sugar
- Honey & yogurt
Oatmeal Pancakes Recipe
This thick & hearty, easy oatmeal pancakes recipe keeps your family nourished and ready for the day. An easy breakfast idea!
Servings 12
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups quick cook oats
- 2 large eggs beaten
- 1 1/2 cups 2% milk or oat milk
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, salt and oatmeal. Set aside. 1 cup all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 ½ cups quick cook oats
- In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, sour cream, oil and vanilla. 2 large eggs, 1 ½ cups 2% milk, ¼ cup sour cream, ¼ cup vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix just until combined. Do not overmix.
- Heat a skillet to 350ºF. Grease the skillet or griddle with butter or oil. Spoon ¼ cup pancake batter on the hot skillet. Cook for 2-3 minutes or until there are bubbles popping on the top.
- Flip the pancake and cook for an additional 1-2 minutes, or until the pancake is done. Repeat with the remaining batter.
- Serve the pancakes warm with your choice of toppings.
Notes
The calories shown are based on the recipe making 12 pancakes, with 1 serving being 1 pancake. Since different brands of ingredients have different nutritional information, the calories shown are just an estimate.
Nutrition
Calories: 158kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 35mg | Sodium: 219mg | Potassium: 141mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 105IU | Calcium: 67mg | Iron: 1.1mg
These were a hit at our house, including with the 4 year old!
These are really nice 👍 pancakes 🥞
Can I use Greek yoghurt instead of sour cream?
I could go for a stack of these pancakes right now! Yummy!
These sound delicious!
On a side note, I just read that steel cut oats are actually the only oats that help our heart health. I bought some and yum! They have lots of texture, so I bet your pancake recipe would be extra healthy and delicious as well, with them?
These look delicious and the oatmeal makes them healthy too!
I learned about the need for milk at food banks last year. We always donate dry goods…I never would have thought about it! Its great that you are spreading the word…the more people that know, the better!
Your pancakes look amazing too! My kids love them as well…these would be a big hit in our house!