IHOP Pancakes (copycat)
These copycat IHOP Pancakes are golden and fluffy and taste just like the ones from the popular restaurant chain.
I have to admit it. I love me some IHOP pancakes. Breakfast is one of my favorite meals to eat at restaurants, though it’s funny, because I’m normally a savory foods girl. I like to order chicken fried steak, bacon or eggs. BUT there’s always an exception when we go to IHOP. I always get their pancakes. They are amazing! Especially with their butter pecan syrup. Yum!
We absolutely loved these pancakes. In my family’s opinion, they were BETTER than IHOP’s. Maybe it’s because they were homemade, I’m not sure. They were just amazing!
Whip your family up a batch of these and you’ll have some happy campers sitting at your breakfast table. These iHOP Pancakes are a great way to start off a great day! 🙂
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IHOP Pancakes (copycat)
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg beaten
- 1 ¼ cups buttermilk
- 2 Tablespoons salted butter melted
- 3 Tablespoons sugar
Instructions
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a small bowl, combine egg and buttermilk. Whisk together until blended. Add to flour mixture, stirring only until smooth. Add melted butter and sugar to batter and whisk until combined.
- Heat a griddle or nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Grease griddle with cooking spray or butter. Drop 1/4 cup batter on pan and spread into a 5-inch circle. Cook until bubbles begin to form on surface and edges begin to brown. Gently flip and continue to brown other side. Repeat with remaining batter.
- Serve with butter and warm syrup. Enjoy!
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Made these, only had milk, not buttermilk, unfortunately, but even still, definitely tasted like ihops! Thank you for a great recipe!
DELICIOUS AND AMAZING! this is a keeper for me. i didn’t use 1 1/4 cups buttermilk because the comments said the batter was too thin because of too much buttermilk. i reduced the buttermilk to 1 cup (1 T lemon juice and filled up the rest of the cup measure with milk to make buttermilk.) When it was time to pour the pancakes, it was too thick to pour, so I ended up adding 2 T more milk to the batter, and i used a 1/4 cup measure to scoop out the batter on to the skillet. i think there is confusion because the recipe says 1 1/4 cups sifted flour. i have found that if you sift the flour first and then measure it, you won’t get enough flour and the pancake mix will be runny. i suggest you spoon your flour into your measuring cups first and then sift it into your bowl. I went exactly with the recipe, except I only used 1 cup + 2 T milk instead of 1 + 1/4 cup milk. Also, I measured out 1 and 1/4 cup flour with a spoon into my measuring cups and then i sifted it into the bowl. i don’t know if this is right so guidance regarding this would be welcome. however, at the end of the day, if it’s too runny add more flour and if it’s too thick add a little milk. (My batter was still kinda thick and gloppy, but it tasted wonderful)
OH WOW. Didn’t expect these to be as good as they were! So simple and delicious. Definitely my go-to now.
Yum! We also used bob’s RED MILL gluten free 1 to 1 bAking flour. These came out light, fluffy, and delicious. A keeper! Thanks for a great recipe!
I always make these For my boys turns out light and fluffy. I use pastry/cake flour and half yogurt half water.
Delicious and fluffy. I subsTituded oatmilk for regular milk and used vegan butter and they were still amazing! My kids loved them (ages9,14,15) and they had no idea thEre eas oatmilk. Delicious!!!
Great pancake recipe!
THESE are the best resturant style pancakes. I will look no further.
I never seem to have buttermilk on hand so I used regular 2%milk with some white vinegar. Tastes great and my oldest loves them so much I need to put leftovers in the fridge for breakfast the next day. No more mix for me!! I will try apple cider vinegar next time as it sounds interesting. (A DOUBLE batch is always needed!)
definitely 5 stars!! :))
absolutely delicious.i haven’t tried IHOP’s though so I cant compare them.
Great recipe. I added just a little vanilla flavoring to enhance the taste. Easy, quick and delicious!!!
tHESE PANCAKES SERIOUSLY CHANGED MY LIFE. hAHA! oR AT LEAST THE WAY i VIEW PANCAKES. aBSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!
This is a great recipe, but if you want to take it up to exactly like ihop pancakes, make sure all your wet ingredients are room temperature when you make your batter. Trust me, it makes all the difference.
Hi. Does the recipe call for
Salted or UNSALTED butter?
Salted butter
Holly, I love IHOP’S pumpkin spice pancakes, how much would I add to the batter along with the pumpkin spice?
Hi Emmi, I would add about a 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice to the dry ingredients and then make the rest of the recipe as directed. I haven’t tried it this way but I am sure it would be so delicious!
The best pancake recipe ever!!
These are the very best! I seriously rarely even use syrup with them, they’re just that good. Thank you!!!
these are amazing!!!! better than IHOP! I want to thank yo for posting this recipient from the bottom Of My stomach, pancakes will never be the SAMe at my house these pancakes are the new fluffy golden standard, this is the absolute best recipe I ever made, because of the SLIMPIcity/eas of making it and the quality of the finished pancake 10000/10
Mmmmmmm 🙂 soooo good. i make 2 batches. to one i add mashed bananas and grround cinnamon. just simply delicious. Thank you
Ooooops, i forgot to rate this recipe… 5 `\0/` 🙂
These pancakes are just awesome. This has been my go to recipe for over a year now. I can’t believe I wasted my time and money in the past using the boxed pancake mix. Thank you for sharing!
I gotta give you props. I’ve come here to use this recipe at least 5 times. it’s great and my go-to now.
thank you so much
I am so happy to hear that! Thank you, Sevi!
Not as lofty as the photo, but light, airy and really delicious. I’ll definitely make these again.
Yep! This is my go-to recipe! Just like ihop!!! I will never buy boxed pancake Mix again!