Red Velvet Pancakes with Cream Cheese Drizzle are wonderfully fluffy and moist and have just the right amount of chocolate flavor.
Red Velvet Pancakes make an absolutely, positively delicious breakfast for Christmas morning, Valentine’s Day or any day. These pancakes are extra decadent, studded with mini chocolate chips and drizzled with a cream cheese glaze. There’s a whole lot of sugar going on here.
If you don’t feel like having them for breakfast, they definitely qualify for dessert.
Red Velvet Pancakes Recipe Tips
You’ll want to make sure the heat under your griddle isn’t too hot. I find that they burn easily. Most likely because the batter has so much sugar in it. Cook them a little longer and slower than normal to ensure the inside sets up before the outside burns.
A few fresh strawberries go great with these pancakes.
The dry ingredients can be mixed together the night before to save time.
More Red Velvet Treats To Try
- Red Velvet Cake– a classic layer cake with cream cheese frosting.
- German Chocolate-Red Velvet Cake– two southern favorites combined into one cake.
- Red Velvet Cupcakes
- Red Velvet Scones– perfectly tender scones with a cream cheese drizzle.
- Red Velvet Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
- Red Velvet Marble Bundt Cake
Red Velvet Pancakes with Cream Cheese Drizzle
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups low-fat buttermilk
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 teaspoons red food coloring
- 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup mini chocolate chips
- Maple syrup for serving
Cream Cheese Glaze
- 4 ounces cream cheese,, room temperature
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-3 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl.
- In another bowl, whisk eggs, buttermilk, sour cream, food coloring, and vanilla.
- Add wet ingredients to dry and mix just until combined.
- Fold chocolate chips into batter
- Use 1/3 cup batter per pancake cooking on a griddle heated over medium heat until lightly browned on both sides.
- For Cream Cheese Glaze, beat together cream cheese and confectioners’ sugar with an electric mixer until smooth. Add in vanilla extract and 1 tablespoon of milk and beat until smooth. Add in extra milk until glaze reaches desired consistency.
- To serve, drizzle cream cheese glaze on top of pancakes and maple syrup, if desired. To make drizzling the glaze easy, place in a plastic bag and snip the corner.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Originally published January 30, 2014.
Recipe adapted from thatssoyummy.com
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Oh, what a treat! Now this is a breakfast to wake up and rush to the table for! I think I’m getting a happy sugar rush from just looking at it…very nice!
These pancakes look incredible Christin! They look so pretty with cream cheese drizzle 🙂 Love red velvet and these would make a wonderfully decadent breakfast for Valentine’s Day!
Red Velvet is so much fun isn’t it? I love your red velvet fortune cookies Kelly!
That’s fantastic color! And cream cheese glaze sounds yummy!
Red velvet pancakes??!! Amazing!! SO want these for dinner tomorrow..(I like breakfast for dinner) 🙂
I love red velvet anything and the pancakes are a favorite. Your pancakes look delicious! Where did you find the fresh strawberries?
check out my recent post,
http://michaelswoodcraft.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/cream-cheese-spread-for-super-bowl-party/
Michael
You would love these red velvet pancakes Michael! The strawberries are just from Harris Teeter. They look better than they taste, but it won’t be long before we have those fresh South Carolina strawberries!
Drool!
So, I don’t know if you know this yet or not, but I’m kinda obsessed with your site. And then you go and make red velvet pancakes. Love!
Thank you Christina! 🙂 That means so much to me coming form you, especially since you are another Southern food blogger! You have such an awesome blog and I love your mason jar recipes 🙂
My daughter is head over heels for the red velvet pancakes at our favorite brunch place – she’s going to be over the moon for your version! Yum! Great recipe!
These look phenomenal!! You had me at Cream Cheese Drizzle!
Oh MAN do these look good, Christin!!! I don’t care how much sugar they have, I’d totally love if someone served me these for breakfast 🙂
Nothing like starting the day out with a sugar rush!