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Sheet Pan Pancakes with Pepper Bacon

The ease of baking all your pancakes at once is here with this fluffy, light sheet pan pancake. And the best pepper bacon for the perfect side with all the maple syrup!
Course Breakfast
Cuisine North American
Keyword bacon, pancakes, sheet pan
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 3

Ingredients

Pancakes, enough for three people, using a 9x13 inch sheet pan

  • 2 tbsp melted butter divided, (plus 1 tbsp if needed, see below)
  • 188 grams all purpose flour or 1 1/4 cups (if using gluten free flour, it will be 1 cup 3 tbsp)
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 1/2 eggs see blog post for how to achieve this
  • 2 tbsp light brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp icing sugar
  • 1 cup plus 2 tbsp kefir or buttermilk can also use yogurt thinned with milk
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 300 grams berries divided (or 1 cup)

Pepper Bacon

  • 2 rashers of thick cut bacon per person at room temperature (not overly thick though)
  • coarsely ground or cracked black pepper

Instructions

Pancakes

  1. Preheat the oven to 450F. If you have a convection setting preheat it to 425F. Convection will help in browning the top of the pancake. If you don't have a convection setting I will explain what to do instead below.
  2. Cut a piece of parchment to fit the bottom of a 9x13 inch sheet pan with sides.
  3. Melt the butter and cool it slightly. When cooled, brush 1 tbsp all over the parchment paper and the sides of the sheet pan.

  4. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon in a bowl with a whisk. Set aside.

  5. In a large bowl combine the eggs with the brown sugar and icing sugar. Use a hand mixer to blend them to foamy, about 2 minutes. Gently stir through the kefir and vanilla.
  6. Add the dry ingredients to the liquid and fold through with a silicone spatula till JUST blended, you want some lumps left throughout. Fold in half of the berries.
  7. Pour and spread the pancake batter in the sheet pan. Smooth the top. Scatter the remaining berries evenly over the batter.
  8. Bake in the oven till golden and puffed up, about 12 minutes or so. If you don't have a convection setting, after the pancake is baked through but it isn't golden enough to your liking, brush with one more tbsp of melted butter and turn on the broiler. Watch it and as soon as the gold appears, remove!
  9. Let it sit for a minute before slicing. If you want, use a biscuit cutter or english muffin ring to create round shapes. Or slice the pancakes into fun 'toast soldiers'. Even heart or star shaped pancakes would be fun!
  10. Serve with maple syrup and pepper bacon.

  11. See the blog post for additional ideas.

Pepper Bacon

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 375F and lay foil in a sheet pan. Place a cooling rack over the sheet pan. This is optional if you don't have a cooling rack that will fit over a sheet pan. Then instead lay parchment onto the baking sheet.
  2. Take one rasher of bacon and twist it into a tight coil. If you find that the coil unravels, try skewering the ends and catching some of the meat along the coil with a wooden skewer. Lay these onto the cooling rack. The coils create bacon that is crispy in parts, and chewy in other parts, a great sensation.
  3. Of course, you don't need to coil the bacon at all, it will still bake up fine.
  4. Spread out the bacon on the cooling rack.
  5. Bake for 5 minutes. Remove and sprinkle a good amount of coarse cracked black pepper over the bacon. The fat will have just started to melt and the pepper will cling to it. If you sprinkle it on before placing the bacon in the oven, it may fall off.
  6. Return to the oven and bake for another 20 minutes or so, depending on your oven and how thick the bacon is. You'll know when it is cooked through!
  7. If you are not using a cooling rack, feel free to flip the bacon half way through the baking time. Place on a paper towel lined plate. Then you can warm it in the oven with the pancake for the last minute or so of the pancake being in the oven.

Recipe Notes

Don't worry about the flours not having all the same measurements or weight.  Each type of flour has a different weight.

If you want to use separate gluten free flours, use 95 g (3/4 cup) of sorghum flour, and 80 g (1/2 cup) sweet rice flour

The convection oven circulates the air evenly over and around the pancake, giving it the browning it needs to not look naked. If you don't have this setting on your oven, just brush with melted butter and turn the broiler on for just a moment or so. Totally optional of course.
Re-heat leftovers in an oiled skillet or toaster oven. Or even the toaster, but the berries might scorch.
You can also freeze leftovers for up to three months.
This recipe can be doubled easily and will fit into a 13x18 sheet pan. This will feed up to 6 people.
Of course, you can use more bacon than listed in the recipe.