Mini Maple Pancake Muffins

by Heavenly Housewife on 11. Sep, 2009 in Breakfast, Snack, baking


I love to check out what Bakerella is up to. She really is an artist with teeny weeny foodstuffs. Bakerella is most famous for her cake pops. I have bought all the stuff I need to make them, but the ingredients have been sitting inside my cabinets for many a month. Her newest creations were pancake mini muffins. So of course, Moi had to go out and buy a mini muffin tin. However, the cool thing is that I actually made the muffins within a few days of buying the pan. *Pat on the back to me*


There were a couple of things I can recommend to you so that you make your muffins better than mine:

1) Before adding the chocolate chips, coat them with flour, otherwise they can very well sink to the bottom, like mine did. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me when I was making them. I think it was really early in the morning, and I didn’t really have my wits about me yet.
2) I didn’t read the directions thoroughly (yeah, no surprise there), so I also forgot to leave some chocolate chips separate to decorate the top with. Too bad, that would have been so cute.

Bad housewife, bad!

I made these a special treat for Mr P this morning (though they would also make for an adorable little snack any time of the day). He said the best part about eating them was biting into the warm chocolate chips. If you have a naughty little creature that you would like to make these for, here is the recipe copied and pasted from Bakerella’s website.

Mini Maple Chocolate Chip Pancake Muffins

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2/3 cup buttermilk
1 egg
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar in a medium bowl. Sift together with a wire whisk.
  • In another bowl, stir buttermilk, egg, maple syrup and melted butter until just combined.
  • Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until combined.
  • Stir in chocolate chips. Reserve a few chips to sprinkle on the tops.
  • Bake for 8-9 minutes.

Makes 24 mini pancake muffins.

Let cool slightly and remove from the pan. You may need to use a toothpick around the edges to separate the pancake muffins from the pan.

Serve immediately with warmed butter if you like or even just with maple syrup.

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One Response to “Mini Maple Pancake Muffins”

  1. Erika K 11. Jul, 2011 at 4:51 pm #

    Oh yes! This looks awesome, and I might even take the chocolate chips to have more of a pancakey flavor. ooh, and I need to get a mini-muffin pan, too. I do have a silicone heart min-pan – maybe that would work. Yay, these might even count for breakfast when we’re running late.

    I often skim recipes and find out stuff I should have done after-the-fact. Um…kind of leads to a more “free form” style of cooking and baking sometimes. :)

    Bookmarking this right now, and putting maple syrup on my grocery list for today.

    Erika K

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