Oh my God, I know I should be commenting about the pancakes, but those two cuties…. I want to eat them up instead! You’re children are beautiful. (And appear to be pretty handy in the kitchen, too!) Nicely done, J.
What great photos! And I’ve always wanted to try these pancakes but just have not gotten around to it – I’ll be sure to put them on the menu for Saturday morning 😀
Jaden, I really enjoyed this post, your pancake looks amazing and your boys are the cutest Eurasian boys I’ve ever seen!! Lemme at their cheeks! It’s so wonderful that the boys are involved in the kitchen , I just know they will be great cooks one day!
Your kids are sooo cute! I love the look of astonishment as they watch the pancake. 😀 I like to make this on Sunday mornings too with my beloved cast iron skillet.
Your little boys are so adorable. Mine is too young to make any traditional stuff yet but we will definitely teach her to make crepes and other stuff not forgetting chinese traditions 🙂
We have that kind of pancake in Sweden too! Thanks for reminding me, I think I’ll make some this week!
You have really captured the essence of cooking children in your pics!
Adorable boys, eat them up yum! They remind me so much of my son when he was a a little munchkin, now he’s a 15 year old long hair hippie and thankfully still a barrel of fun! Yummers!
We’ll give your skillet pancake recipe a try when the weather cools down a bit and we can turn the oven back on…it’s crazy hot in my kitchen this summer!
Jaden, your kids are adorable and looks to me like chefs in the making. 🙂
The pancake look absolutely delicious with the fruits and cream.
Question: Do I have to use a skillet to make these? (can I use something else? Like maybe a small pie or cake tin) Only because I haven’t got a smaller skillet that will fit in the oven and if I make a big one, I will have to eat it all myself!
I cannot get over how adorable your sons are!!! I can’t even say which photo is the cutest…although I love the looks on the little ones’ faces as they are watching the pancake 🙂
This does sound easy and yummy…have been wanting to try something like this…now’s my chance 🙂
I seriously busted a gut when I saw that last picture just now … the look on his face is downright hilarious! Your kids are adorable, Jaden … oh, and the recipe sounds good, too! 😉
German pancakes, what a great idea! And I don’t know about you, but there’s so much fresh fruit sitting around my kitchen threatening to go bad — it’s a perfect way to use it up.
Love the photos of your boys. I have lots of pictures of my son helping in the kitchen over the years, from when he needed a stepladder to reach the counter to when… he didn’t anymore (he’s 6′-2″). It’s great for kids to have cooking be integrated into their lives. Mine (19 now) just got his first apartment and the housewarming present he requested? A Cuisinart mini-prep and my recipe collection.
NY Girl- When u gonna have kids?!? 🙂
Ellie- Please post your photos when you make them!
Carol- Sometimes the kids ask for the pancake for dinner too. So they told me to tell you if you got nothin’ in the kitchen for supper you can have this.
Coffee- thank you and welcome to the mad mad world of steamy kitchen! i love the photo of the espresso on your website. did you pull that shot?!?
Garrett- thank you!
Ape- oh my kids would eat her up!! 3 hours of babysitting and she’ll feel like limp sausage.
Amy- we’ll have to try the cast iron next and see what shapes come out.
Ninja- I once tried to “chinese-ify” the german oven pancake and topped with canned lychees and longan. Do you know what the rugrats did? Put the fruit on each of their fingers and pretended they were lychee monsters! I remember I used to do that too….and I used to get in SO much trouble for disrespectin’ the fruit!!
Ilva- Whats the Swedish name for the pancake?
Katswan- We have a loooooong ways to go to reach 15! It seems like forever but everyone always tell me that it goes by lightening fast.
East West- Thank you!
Ilingc- no skillet needed. Try a cake pan, baking sheet…whatever you have that will go in a hot oven. Just spray with cooking spray or use a paper towel to lightly grease. Don’t use non-stick as the temperature is just too high for safe Teflon use. This weekend we’ll be pouring it directly on a lg baking sheet just to see what happens!
Joey- Aw, thanks! They told me they were doing a cooking show just like Paula Deen, except they call her “Paula Bean” LOL!
Inne-I was so lucky to get fruit that was perfectly ripe at the farmers market. I wish I had some blackberries in there…
Amrita- thanks! the colors of the fruit were just so vivid. It took us about an hour to eat all of that pancake + fruit!
LPC- LOL that look is priceless!!
Lemongrass- thank you!
Lisa- Its great that you’ve instilled a love of cooking in your son!
Sophia- you’ll have to post a pic and I’ll link to it! that is…if you remembered to take a picture of it before devouring it!
I have lots of exclamation points this morning! Too! much! coffee!
My grandmother whose mother was German used to make that pancake for me. I don’t make it all that often but it’s a great Sunday morning treat, for sure. I’ve adapted it to New England by drizzling a bit of maple syrup over it. My grandmother would drizzle honey and sometimes a few toasted chopped nuts.
Oh man, are those kids ever cute! It looks like you’re having a lot of fun. I do admire people who cook with their kids. This week I have two of my nephews staying with me (ages 3 and 6) and we’re having a great time here too.
Hi, Jaden. Loved the expressions of your handsome sons. 🙂
I made German Oven Pancake twice from a recipe from a pancake-loving site in care2.com. Yes, it’s so entertaining to watch it rise crazily and randomly.
That recipe is very interesting and ideal for Sunday brunches! Really yummy!
Your sons are very cute!
It’s the first time I visit your blog and I find it awesome! Your pictures are gorgeous…
Such cute boys! My 4 year old looked at this pictures and said he wanted to cook with those boys. And he especially liked the cute face at the end. (But rats! I missed out on the peppercorns!)
Your kids have big beautiful eyes…if I were just 30 years younger….hee heee…
Your kids have potential in baking….:) unlike me…
I just had a fruit bowl like that , with no pancake of course, to ward me off the summer heat. :O
I made your pancake this morning. It was a huge hit. I will post some pics soon. Love the pics of your boys too. I just added vanilla essence to my batter and it was super. Thanks again!
A
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I just found out such pancakes existed. Me and my sis made them and instantly fell in love. I would be making them weekly too if it wasn’t summer! It’s so easy and fancy. Though the recipe we tried didn’t have sugar…that’s what’s missing, haha.
And of course, adorable adorable kids!
that looks amazing! i just watched an episode of good deal with dave lieberman where he made german oven pancakes and thought they looked pretty good, but yours looks phenomenal! i’m a sucker for fresh fruit! and your kids are gorgeous! do they do dishes, too?
Now I’m German, well a mixture of it and other ethnicities and I had no idea they had oven pancakes. It sounds so good with a mixture of summer fruit. Can’t wait until Sunday to make it!
I have my great-grandmother’s German pancake skillet … seriously, that’s what it has always been called, though it’s really just a nice 9-inch cast-iron skillet, perfectly seasoned over the course of a century. But German pancakes are what were always made in it, until I inherited it and started using it for bacon and hash and other pancake-friendly seasoning agents (no fish!).
My recipe is just half-cup flour, half-cup milk and three eggs, all whisked together in a measuring cup and poured into the well-buttered pan. No sifting or spooning, and it still turns out great every time.
When I was getting ready to move to South Dakota, Mom came out of the house with the pan and gave it to me. I will always remember that moment, because I know how reluctant she was to part with it, and I hadn’t so much as hinted that I wanted it. It never occurred to me that she would give it up. That makes it even more special.
But she can still come visit it! I cook for her with it when she does.
These photos of your cute boys are such treasures…we might not know it now, but truly this is how our lives should be filled with…thanks for making me smile. Pancakes come second in this post! Hahaha….
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Oh my God, I know I should be commenting about the pancakes, but those two cuties…. I want to eat them up instead! You’re children are beautiful. (And appear to be pretty handy in the kitchen, too!) Nicely done, J.
What great photos! And I’ve always wanted to try these pancakes but just have not gotten around to it – I’ll be sure to put them on the menu for Saturday morning 😀
Jaden, I really enjoyed this post, your pancake looks amazing and your boys are the cutest Eurasian boys I’ve ever seen!! Lemme at their cheeks! It’s so wonderful that the boys are involved in the kitchen , I just know they will be great cooks one day!
That pancake looks awesome and your kids are doing a fantastic job!!!! I loved reading the post. 🙂
fantastic post!!! cute pic at the end too.
NY Girl Eats World just threatened to eat your children! Run, kids, run!
Your kids are sooo cute! I love the look of astonishment as they watch the pancake. 😀 I like to make this on Sunday mornings too with my beloved cast iron skillet.
Your little boys are so adorable. Mine is too young to make any traditional stuff yet but we will definitely teach her to make crepes and other stuff not forgetting chinese traditions 🙂
We have that kind of pancake in Sweden too! Thanks for reminding me, I think I’ll make some this week!
You have really captured the essence of cooking children in your pics!
Adorable boys, eat them up yum! They remind me so much of my son when he was a a little munchkin, now he’s a 15 year old long hair hippie and thankfully still a barrel of fun! Yummers!
We’ll give your skillet pancake recipe a try when the weather cools down a bit and we can turn the oven back on…it’s crazy hot in my kitchen this summer!
What cuties you have there! Simply adorable kiddos!!!
Jaden, your kids are adorable and looks to me like chefs in the making. 🙂
The pancake look absolutely delicious with the fruits and cream.
Question: Do I have to use a skillet to make these? (can I use something else? Like maybe a small pie or cake tin) Only because I haven’t got a smaller skillet that will fit in the oven and if I make a big one, I will have to eat it all myself!
I cannot get over how adorable your sons are!!! I can’t even say which photo is the cutest…although I love the looks on the little ones’ faces as they are watching the pancake 🙂
This does sound easy and yummy…have been wanting to try something like this…now’s my chance 🙂
Ok, one more time: your sons are adorable!!!
What a lovely Sunday morning ritual, Jaden! The pancake looks absolutely delicious with the fruit topping.
The picture of the fruit is just out-of-this-world STUNNING.
The kids are adorable =o)
I seriously busted a gut when I saw that last picture just now … the look on his face is downright hilarious! Your kids are adorable, Jaden … oh, and the recipe sounds good, too! 😉
Looks amazingly tempting and delicious!
German pancakes, what a great idea! And I don’t know about you, but there’s so much fresh fruit sitting around my kitchen threatening to go bad — it’s a perfect way to use it up.
Love the photos of your boys. I have lots of pictures of my son helping in the kitchen over the years, from when he needed a stepladder to reach the counter to when… he didn’t anymore (he’s 6′-2″). It’s great for kids to have cooking be integrated into their lives. Mine (19 now) just got his first apartment and the housewarming present he requested? A Cuisinart mini-prep and my recipe collection.
I just made your delicious pancakes and topped them with banana, honey and some fresh red currants. Yummy!
Greetings from Germany
NY Girl- When u gonna have kids?!? 🙂
Ellie- Please post your photos when you make them!
Carol- Sometimes the kids ask for the pancake for dinner too. So they told me to tell you if you got nothin’ in the kitchen for supper you can have this.
Coffee- thank you and welcome to the mad mad world of steamy kitchen! i love the photo of the espresso on your website. did you pull that shot?!?
Garrett- thank you!
Ape- oh my kids would eat her up!! 3 hours of babysitting and she’ll feel like limp sausage.
Amy- we’ll have to try the cast iron next and see what shapes come out.
Ninja- I once tried to “chinese-ify” the german oven pancake and topped with canned lychees and longan. Do you know what the rugrats did? Put the fruit on each of their fingers and pretended they were lychee monsters! I remember I used to do that too….and I used to get in SO much trouble for disrespectin’ the fruit!!
Ilva- Whats the Swedish name for the pancake?
Katswan- We have a loooooong ways to go to reach 15! It seems like forever but everyone always tell me that it goes by lightening fast.
East West- Thank you!
Ilingc- no skillet needed. Try a cake pan, baking sheet…whatever you have that will go in a hot oven. Just spray with cooking spray or use a paper towel to lightly grease. Don’t use non-stick as the temperature is just too high for safe Teflon use. This weekend we’ll be pouring it directly on a lg baking sheet just to see what happens!
Joey- Aw, thanks! They told me they were doing a cooking show just like Paula Deen, except they call her “Paula Bean” LOL!
Inne-I was so lucky to get fruit that was perfectly ripe at the farmers market. I wish I had some blackberries in there…
Amrita- thanks! the colors of the fruit were just so vivid. It took us about an hour to eat all of that pancake + fruit!
LPC- LOL that look is priceless!!
Lemongrass- thank you!
Lisa- Its great that you’ve instilled a love of cooking in your son!
Sophia- you’ll have to post a pic and I’ll link to it! that is…if you remembered to take a picture of it before devouring it!
I have lots of exclamation points this morning! Too! much! coffee!
My grandmother whose mother was German used to make that pancake for me. I don’t make it all that often but it’s a great Sunday morning treat, for sure. I’ve adapted it to New England by drizzling a bit of maple syrup over it. My grandmother would drizzle honey and sometimes a few toasted chopped nuts.
never mind the pancakes! … your boys are such honeys!
They look so yummy and the pancakes too! Love this post of your boys making pancakes. The pictures are wonderful.
Your photos are always amazing and inspiring, thanks!
Oh man, are those kids ever cute! It looks like you’re having a lot of fun. I do admire people who cook with their kids. This week I have two of my nephews staying with me (ages 3 and 6) and we’re having a great time here too.
Hi, Jaden. Loved the expressions of your handsome sons. 🙂
I made German Oven Pancake twice from a recipe from a pancake-loving site in care2.com. Yes, it’s so entertaining to watch it rise crazily and randomly.
Jaden,
Your kids are sooo cute! You gotta bring them along next time we go eat! 🙂 Like your ma, I’ll babysit but I don’t do diapers. 😉
That recipe is very interesting and ideal for Sunday brunches! Really yummy!
Your sons are very cute!
It’s the first time I visit your blog and I find it awesome! Your pictures are gorgeous…
Oh my god, is that yours. Can I be their “kai yeh”?
awww… jan, ur kids look so adorable. i LOVE that 4th pic where they r peeking to check the pancake in oven.
Such cute boys! My 4 year old looked at this pictures and said he wanted to cook with those boys. And he especially liked the cute face at the end. (But rats! I missed out on the peppercorns!)
Your kids have big beautiful eyes…if I were just 30 years younger….hee heee…
Your kids have potential in baking….:) unlike me…
I just had a fruit bowl like that , with no pancake of course, to ward me off the summer heat. :O
I agree, your boys are sure cute! Thanks for this recipe, I will try it with my germanic hubby, lol!
Your breakfast is almost as beautiful as your children. What good cooks they are!
OMG, that pic of them peering in the oven is so precious.
Charlotte- I think if I added chopped macadamia nuts and toasted coconut flakes I could simply be in heaven!
Stephanie – thank you!
Melinda- the boys just now saw their photo on the site and said, “I’m Paula Been!”
Thank you Scott!
Kalyn- have fun with the kids. Auntie Kalyn will surely spoil them rotten, huh?
Argus- crazy and random sure describes my kids well. oh wait. you were talking about the pancakes
Auntie WC!
Rosa- thank you and I hope you come back soon – lots of good food here….
BBO- Kai Yeh!!
Sia – my son Nathan was saying, “WOW!!”
Lynn- hop on your private jet and come over and make pancakes with us!
Tigerfish- fruit alone is too healthy for me! ;-P
Lotushaus- lol!
Lydia- yes they are great cooks. They love to help me in the kitchen esp when it involves something sweet
Bee- thank you!
What a lovely post! Sharing food experiences with family is building lifetime memories!
I made your pancake this morning. It was a huge hit. I will post some pics soon. Love the pics of your boys too. I just added vanilla essence to my batter and it was super. Thanks again!
A
[…] Sunday Morning Family Tradition – German Oven Pancakes [image] This article appears in my [image] food column published 7/4/07. Happy July 4th! I am Chinese, born in Hong […] […]
Oh this post is too good 🙂 I love, love, love all the pics, my favourites are the third one and the last one (lol) I really like coming here.
I just found out such pancakes existed. Me and my sis made them and instantly fell in love. I would be making them weekly too if it wasn’t summer! It’s so easy and fancy. Though the recipe we tried didn’t have sugar…that’s what’s missing, haha.
And of course, adorable adorable kids!
Your kids are too cute for words and you’re starting them early in the kitchen 😉
The pancakes look great esp. topped with all that fruit!
that looks amazing! i just watched an episode of good deal with dave lieberman where he made german oven pancakes and thought they looked pretty good, but yours looks phenomenal! i’m a sucker for fresh fruit! and your kids are gorgeous! do they do dishes, too?
Now I’m German, well a mixture of it and other ethnicities and I had no idea they had oven pancakes. It sounds so good with a mixture of summer fruit. Can’t wait until Sunday to make it!
so delicious! your kids and food are beautiful! traditions are great 🙂
In cantonese language “kai yeh” means god father. hehehehe
Your sons are so handsome! Love all the pretty &/ mouth-watering pictures too. 🙂
Your sons are so cute and look to get along together in the kitchen. Gorgeous pictures as always Jaden.
THank you to all of you with your kind comments!
Now…if I could only teach the boys to do the dishes!!!!
Dear Jaden,
We call it Dutch Oven Pancakes in our household. A splash of lemon, some whipped butter and lots of powder sugar.
You have precious two little boys there. And they even pulled out my name, and so I thought. You see, my initial is LPC, Lee Ping Chong.
Enjoy baking with your two boys, talented Mommie.
Beautiful photos!
I have my great-grandmother’s German pancake skillet … seriously, that’s what it has always been called, though it’s really just a nice 9-inch cast-iron skillet, perfectly seasoned over the course of a century. But German pancakes are what were always made in it, until I inherited it and started using it for bacon and hash and other pancake-friendly seasoning agents (no fish!).
My recipe is just half-cup flour, half-cup milk and three eggs, all whisked together in a measuring cup and poured into the well-buttered pan. No sifting or spooning, and it still turns out great every time.
Thanks for inspiring me to make one this weekend!
MrsHBT- Oh wow, those are your initials! LOL!
Kitt- I hope that my cast iron skillet gets passed down too. My mom didn’t have one but she has a beloved wok that I am eyeing!!! 🙂
When I was getting ready to move to South Dakota, Mom came out of the house with the pan and gave it to me. I will always remember that moment, because I know how reluctant she was to part with it, and I hadn’t so much as hinted that I wanted it. It never occurred to me that she would give it up. That makes it even more special.
But she can still come visit it! I cook for her with it when she does.
Here is my link to your pancake recipe! http://archanacooks.blogspot.com/2007/07/german-oven-pancakes-jaden-style.html
These photos of your cute boys are such treasures…we might not know it now, but truly this is how our lives should be filled with…thanks for making me smile. Pancakes come second in this post! Hahaha….
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