Get the recipe: Kid-Loved DIY Pancake Muffins (25 Minutes)
Move over french toast, waffles and cereal, there’s a fun new option for breakfast: pancake muffins! These homemade breakfast muffins for kids are healthy, easy to make, customizable—I share lots of mix-in ideas below!—and a great muffin option in a packed school lunch. They freeze wonderfully, too!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups flour (see notes)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)
- 1 cup milk (see notes)
- 2 tbsp maple sryup
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tbsp melted butter
- 1 tsp vanilla
Favorite Toppings
- blueberries
- chopped strawberries
- mini chocolate chips
- bacon - cooked and chopped
- peanut butter
- sprinkles
- nutella
- cinnamon & sugar
- gratted apple
- chopped pecans or walnuts
- gratted carrots
- white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Prep: Preheat the oven to 350° F and spray or line a regular muffin tin. To make mini muffins, see notes below.
- Dry Ingredients: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
- Add in Wet Ingredients: add in the maple syrup, milk, vanilla, eggs, melted butter and stir until just incorporated. DO NOT overmix.
- Muffins: Scoop the batter into the muffin tin, roughly 2/3 the way full.
- Toppings: Add any toppings that you want to use.
- Cook: Place the muffin tin into the oven, and bake for 14-18 minutes or until just golden brown.
- Cool: Let cool for 5-10 minutes, and serve.
Notes
Age: 9+ months
Note on Flour: I like to use white whole wheat flour for some added nutrients. You can also use whole wheat flour, a mixture of 50/50 white and whole wheat flours, all-purpose or gluten-free one-for-one flour.
Note on Milk: you can use any milk you like in this recipe. Dairy milk works well, but make them dairy-free by using almond, oat or cashew. Depending on the type of flour you use, you may need to increase the amount of milk as different flours absorb liquid differently - start with 1 cup and add in 1/4 -1/2 more, if needed.
Mini Muffins: you can make these into mini muffins as well by using a mini muffin pan and cooking for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
Cooking with Kids
Ideas for Toddlers
- Help measure and put the ingredients into the bowl.
- Mix the ingredients together.
- Scoop the batter into the muffin pan.
- Help adding the toppings.
Ideas for Older Kids
- Preheat the oven.
- Pick out and measure all of the ingredients.
- Mix the ingredients together.
- Fill the muffin cups with the batter.
- Add the toppings.
- Once filled, kids can carefully put the muffin tin into the oven (with adult supervision) and remove once baked.
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