These buttery pineapple pancakes might just become your new favorite pancakes:
With a base that absolutely melts in your mouth, it’s almost more like cake than pancakes.
I’ve posted many pancakes over the years; a giant list can be found here: 100+ Healthy Pancake Recipes. And these pineapple upside down pancakes are surprisingly my favorite of them all. A friend from high school once taught me how to make a ridiculously-easy pineapple upside down cake that went something like this: pour melted butter into the pan, spread on a layer of crushed pineapple, and top with vanilla cake mix and more butter… maybe it wasn’t quite that simple, but it was pretty easy and tasted amazing.
These cake-like pineapple pancakes remind me of that cake… but without all the butter! (Seriously, there was a massive amount of butter in the cake. No wonder it tasted so good!)
I hope you like the recipe as much as I do!
Pineapple Upside Down Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup flour (spelt, all-purpose, Bob’s gf, or ww pastry all work) (45g)
- 2 tbsp quick oats or certified-gf quick oats (10g)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- pinch stevia, or 1 tbsp liquid sweetener of choice (such as pure maple syrup)
- 1/3 cup milk of choice, warmed slightly (minus 1 tbsp if using liquid sweetener) (80g)
- 2 tsp melted virgin coconut oil (Can sub veg oil, but coconut oil gives the pancakes an incredible shortbread-y taste. Omit only if you don’t mind the taste of fat-free pancakes.)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 4 pineapple rings
Instructions
In a cereal bowl, combine all dry ingredients except pineapple, and stir very well. In a separate bowl, combine all liquid ingredients. (The milk is warmed to prevent the oil from solidifying on contact. This is a good practice for any baked-good recipe that calls for coconut oil.) Pour dry into wet, and stir together to form a batter. Grease a skillet, then turn the heat to medium. Test the heat of your skillet by throwing a few drops of water onto the surface. When the water sizzles, the pan is ready for the pancake batter. Turn skillet to low-medium and drop about 1/4 of the batter onto the skillet, then spread out and lightly place one pineapple round in the middle, pushing down just a little. Repeat with another pancake. (Unless you have a giant skillet, it is best to just do two at a time so as not to crowd the skillet.) Flip pancakes over when the edges become firm and they are able to be flipped without breaking. Continue cooking until desired doneness is reached. I turned the heat up to high at the very end, to fry the pineapple slices a little. Makes 4 super-thick pancakes.
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Oh my goodness! These were delicious! I didn’t have any pineapple, but I DID have some nice, juicy ripe nectarines, so substituted those instead (just chopped up & placed in the batter) and they were AMAZING! They tasted like peach cobbler. So good!! Thanks for all the great recipes Katie. I enjoy them a lot!
These look like heaven! I love breakfast for dinner. I, for medical reasons, have to follow a gluten free diet so many of your recipes I follow and try out. I have a hard time finding some of the things you use(I live in a very very very small town). What would happen if I didn’t use quick oats? I have to have the gf kind and I have a hard time finding the quick cook kind. Also…could I use the left over gluten free pancake mix I have? I love from scratch but I need to finish the premix too. Pineapple is going on my grocery list.
I used rolled oats and it worked fine.
Katie!!! My darlin! I made these first thing this morning for my mom dad brother and grandma with gf flour and used rice chex in place of oats because I’ve had bad reactions with oats since becoming allergic to gluten wheat and soy I also added orange zest to the batter and used the centers I cut from the pineapple and put in cuisinart and puréed down then put in a sauce pan with a little stevia water and corn startch and made pineapple glaze syrup. They were sooo good! Everyone loved them so much!! Cooking has never been something I have enjoyed until recently and now I literally live to cook and create and make others smile by sharing my tasty creations!! Love you and your inspirational blog!
Thank you so much for making them!
These are so pretty! They make me want to go to Hawaii — even though I just got back!
Lucky you lol
How on earth do you come up with these wonderful recipes. You are so creative.
Katie, These pancakes sound delicious. I wouldn’t have put pineapple with pancakes, but I will now!
I was on my cousin’s page and the picture of the pineapple jumped up off the page and grabbed me by the neck. Pineapple is one of my favorite fruits, I could eat it every day. I’ll try this one weekend when I need cheering up.
Love this quirky idea! I guess you could use peaches or other fruits too. I might have a go with GF flour mix….yummy weekend breakfast coming up!
I just had an epiphany! Merging this would the pizzert/breakfast pizza! Just made breakfast pizza for my kids (which they LOVE) and thought about this idea too late. Can’t wait to try it!
Omg this pancakes are Amaaaazing!!! I was in breakfast heaven and then kicked out when i saw my empty plate 🙁 hehehe …but im going to make them again very soon for sure! This is one of the best pancakes recipes i´ve ever tried!!!!