Dutch Baby Pancake – Large Family Style
At certain points of the year we are a little over run with eggs, this is a surefire way to use up a whole lot of them that is guaranteed to be wolfed down by everyone in the house!
Dutch Baby Pancakes are super versatile, they can be served with a myriad of toppings depending on what is avail and in season!

An abundance of eggs!
There are certain times of the year where we have a huge quantities of eggs, the benefit of this is that in the slow seasons we still get quite a few per day, and also, there’s the whole ‘Chicken Math’ issue lol, anyone who has chickens will understand.
We have a lot of poultry, chickens for breeding, chickens for meat, chickens for eggs, and ducks for eggs as well. We make a lot of different dishes with eggs, and we eat a lot scrambled or fried, but when we really need to get through a bunch, we make Dutch Baby Pancakes in large trays, each one of my cast iron trays has an 18 egg dutch baby pancake in it and between the eight of us, we can generally eat most of two trays in one lunch!

Tips and ideas
Mixing
The best results will be achieved by incorporating lots of air into the batter, it is a very thin batter, so it isn’t hard to work with a whisk and a bowl, but honestly, using a stand mixer, food processor or I use my Thermomix is the way to go. I like to give it a good 30 seconds on speed five, incorporate heaps of air, then I scrape it down and hit it again just to make sure its all well blended but also airy and fluffy.
It will still cook up fine without this mechanical help, but it may not puff up as beautifully as some of the pictures.
Texture
I always say that the texture of this dutch baby pancake is like a baked custard, it is fluffy and melt in the mouth but with the richness and weight of a baked custard or a baked cheesecake. It is not like a pancake, so if you are expecting that cake like texture of a pancake, you will be disappointed, though maybe not, because even though it isn’t necessarily what you are expecting, its pretty awesome!
Another way to make sure that you get the best puff possible is to make sure your pan is very hot, I generally put the pan with the butter/ghee in it into my barbecue (my oven) before I even mix the batter up, so that by the time the batter is ready the ghee is sizzling hot in the pan, then when I pour the batter into that hot fat the edges start to set and climb the sides of the dish before your eyes.
Topping your dutch baby pancake
We tend to keep ours sweet, though because it is such a blank taste palate, you could totally make it a savoury dish.
Apple scrap syrup is a favourite drizzle, along with stewed apples from the shelf, we love maple syrup, who doesn’t, but we don’t always have it, but well cooked crunchy bacon bits and a drizzle of maple is probably one of my fave toppings!
Blueberry compote is delish when I have blueberries on the shelf, but we’ve also had it with pears, plums and peaches from the shelf as well and sometimes we just have it plain!
We haven’t really tried it as a completely savoury meal, but I will have to try at some point because I have had people ask about whether it could be treated much like a yorkshire pudding!


Dutch Baby Pancake
Equipment
- 1 Cast Iron Roasting Dish
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp Ghee/Butter
- 18 Eggs
- 600 g Milk of choice*
- 350 g Plain / All Purpose Flour
Instructions
- Put Butter/Ghee into your Cast Iron pan and put it into your oven to preheat on 220c / 430f.2 Tbsp Ghee/Butter
- Put all the ingredients into a bowl and whisk hard! Using my Thermomix I mix on speed 5 for 30 seconds, scrape the bowl down and then hit it again for another 30 seconds to incorporate as much air as possible.18 Eggs600 g Milk350 g Plain / All Purpose Flour
- Pour the batter directly into the hot butter/ghee in your preheated pan, the fat should be sizzling and as you pour the batter in it will bubble and start to cook as you watch. Bake for approximately 25 minutes, see notes** to help check for doneness.
Notes
I find that when it is ready you can gently touch the centre of the tray and it will bounce back much like a cake.Ā This takes approximately 25 minutes at 220 for me.
I can’t believe this is the first recipe when you open the website! I spent yesterday going through YouTube videos of yours that I had already watched because I have never made a Dutch Baby Pancake or really seen anyone make one until I started watching your channel. I decided I wanted to make one and spent forever yesterday trying to find the video of exactly how you make it! Lol! I’m going to go figure out these grams (I live in the US, so of course I have to figure out cups) and make one tonight! Thank you for making this the first thing I saw and I can’t wait until the rest of the website is finished!
Hehe, Fantastic! I am actually going to pay for the upgrade on the recipe plugin for the site because it will allow you to swap between measurements! and knowing how many of my viewers don’t use grams etc lol
Hi, I love your channel and it’s good to see progress on your website. Well done. š
Thankyou! It has been a lot of work, but getting it exactly how I want it is worth it š
Yay! Iām so glad you got this up and going!! I am excited to have your recipes!! Thanks!
Slowly but surely! hehe
Wow Nyssa. What a thoughtful amazing person you are!!! If I didn’t know any better I actually feel like I’m there with you making it. It is so detailed, full of tips and easy to follow. If all the recipes are going to be this fantastic then I’ll be a pro in no time. Where I am in England is no where near as lovely and peaceful as where you live. Xx
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Made the Dutch Baby a couple of days ago for the first time and really enjoyed it, I will definitely make it again regularly actually lol
Fellow Queenslander here!! Your channel is the best. I have loads of friends out in the country not far from Toowoomba and have told them all to watch you. Me I am South East (15 min from Carindale). You are inspirational and amazing. I will give this go. yummmmm
I kinda forgot to look through the comments on the website lol! Thank you! and I hope you enjoyed it I’m actually thinking I should make it for breakfast today hehe š