Birthday Cake Pancakes (Funfetti Pancakes)

Birthday cake pancakes are light, fluffy and loaded with sprinkles. It’s great for birthday celebrations, any celebrations.  Instead of baking cakes you can surprise your kids with these birthday pancakes loaded with sprinkles!

What’s BEST About These Funfetti Pancakes?

1. Don’t want to bake a cake for your kids birthday or special celebration? Make funfetti cake pancakes instead. It’s delicious and colourful as a birthday cake would be.
2. It’s super easy to make using box pancake mix and yellow cake mix. But nothing should stop you from making your own pancake cake mix and yellow cake mix.
3. Upgrade your pancake cake mix with colourful sprinkles, frosting and whipped cream.
4. Pancakes with SPRINKLES! Sprinkles make everything better. You little one and child-at-heart in the family would love it.
5. Good ness of cake and pancake together in one dish! Now that’s hard to resist!
6. These pancakes turn out to be so soft and extra fluffy, as pancake ingredients are mixed with cake mix.
7. This recipe is versatile. You can choose your favorite cake mix and alter the toppings as per preference.
8. Fit for any celebrations! These pancakes are sure to bring smile on everyone’s face making your day extra special.
9. No better way than to start any special day than with these colourful, birthday cake pancakes. Colorful breakfast treat in the morning!
10. Great to make ahead and freeze it. Any time you are in a mood to celebrate, simply pull it out of freeze, reheat and enjoy!

Ingredients You’ll Need

Below photo shows all ingredients needed to make birthday pancakes using box mixes. Choose box mixes for convenience on busy days when you are pressed of time to make everything from scratch.

If you do not want to use box mixes you can make your own pancake mix and cake mix.

DRY INGREDIENTS:

Box Mix:

Pancake Mix – choose a good brand for best results. I recommend Krusteaz or Hungry Jack.

Yellow Cake Mix – Pillsbury cake mix is best. Again you can choose to make your own homemade version of yellow cake mix.

Use equal portions of pancake mix and yellow cake mix.

Sprinkles:

Use good quality sprinkles so the colors of the sprinkles don’t run into the batter. Add a tablespoon of flour to sprinkles before adding it to the pancake batter. Add sprinkles only in the end just when you are ready to make pancakes.

Use about 3 to 4 tablespoons of funfetti sprinkles for every 1 cup of pancake and 1 cup of cake mix.

WET INGREDIENTS:

Milk

Vegetable Oil

Vanilla Extract

Eggs

FOR TOPPING:

Whipped Cream

Vanilla Glaze – made by mixing together powdered sugar, vanilla and water or milk.

More Sprinkles.

How To Make Birthday Cake Pancakes?

This funfetti cake pancake batter is super easy to make and comes together real fast. This recipe uses box mixes – both pancake box mixes and yellow cake mix. You can definitely make your own homemade pancake and cake mix and use that instead of box mix as well.

1. Add 1 tablespoon of plain flour into sprinkles. Mix and set aside until use.
2. To Make Pancake Batter – In a medium bowl mix dry ingredients pancake mix, yellow cake mix and set aside.
3. In another bowl whisk together wet ingredients – 2 eggs, milk, vegetable oil, vanilla extract.
4. Whisk together until smooth.
5. Add the dry mix into the bowl of wet mix. Do NOT OVER MIX.
6. It’s okay to if batter has small lumps. They will disappear once you cook it.
7. Cook Pancakes – When you are ready to make pancakes, add sprinkles to the batter and stir very gently making sure you don’t over mix.
8. On a hot griddle ladle out ¼ cup of pancake batter. If you have large griddle pour two or three pancakes on the griddle.  Cook on medium low flame.
9. Once birthday cake pancakes/funfetti pancakes begins to bubble it’s time to flip. Carefully flip the pancakes and cook on other side on medium flame.
10. Remove from griddle and serve immediately with vanilla glaze and whipped cream.

These are great to make ahead and freeze.  Wrap individual pancakes in cling film, place in zip lock bags or air tight containers and freeze it.              

When you don’t have time to cook up a batch on busy mornings, simply remove it from freezer, reheat and serve.

To Make Vanilla Glaze –

Whisk together powdered sugar, vanilla and heavy whipping cream. It should be of pouring consistency. If glaze is too thick, add more cream.

For Whipping Cream –

Whisk chilled heavy whipping cream using hand beater until stiff peaks are formed. Transfer to piping bags fitted with star nozzle.

Serve funfetti pancakes with vanilla glaze, whipped cream on top and sprinkles.

Tips For BEST Birthday Pancake Recipe

• For FLUFFY pancakes, do NOT over mix the batter. Pancake batter can have few lumps and they will disappear when cooked.

• Rest pancake batter before cooking for few minutes. Resting will help make soft pancakes. Note – do not add jimmies or sprinkles at this point. Add it after resting time when ready to cook.

• Overmixing will take away the beautiful soft texture of pancakes. Nobody wants tough/hard pancakes. Once flour comes together with wet ingredients, STOP MIXING, even if you see lumps.

• Use heavy pan like cast iron griddle to cook pancakes, so birthday cake pancakes won’t stick.

• Griddle should be hot enough before you start cooking. Preheat griddle when pancake batter is resting. If griddle is too hot, pancakes will burn from outside, undercooked inside. If griddle it not hot enough, pancakes will take longer to cook and will turn hard.

• Spray or grease pan with very little cooking oil or butter, to help release pancakes easily. Remember pancakes will absorb the oil or butter, use little.

• Use good quality sprinkles so the colors don’t run into the batter. Another great tip is to fold sprinkles with little flour first before mixing into the batter.

• Once you fold in sprinkles into the batter, cook pancakes immediately.

• It’s important to know when you should flip pancakes. Once the edges start to cook and you see couple of bubbles at the centre, carefully flip. It takes lesser time to cook the top side than bottom side.

• Flipping is done only ONCE. So wait before you flip. Flip once bottom side is cooked.

• Do NOT press down the pancakes. You want them to be soft and fluffy!

• To make homemade pancake  mix – for 1 cup all purpose flour add 2 teaspoon baking powder, ¼ teaspoon baking soda, ¼ teaspoon salt.

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Birthday Cake Pancakes (Funfetti Pancakes)

Jyothi Rajesh

Light, fluffy and loaded with sprinkles, these birthday cake pancakes are great for birthday celebrations or other celebrations. Instead of baking cakes you can surprise your kids with these birthday pancakes loaded with sprinkles!

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Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 15 mins

Course Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 14 pancakes

Calories 222

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 1 cup pancake mix
• ▢ 1 cup yellow cake mix
• ▢ 1 tablespoon plain flour
• ▢ 3 to 4 tablespoon sprinkles colored jimmies
• ▢ 3 tablespoon vegetable oil
• ▢ 1 ¼ cup milk plus extra as needed to adjust batter consistency
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ 2 eggs

Vanilla Glaze –

• ▢ 1 ½ cup powdered sugar
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ ½ cup whipping cream

For Topping –

• ▢ Whipping cream or cool whip
• ▢ Sprinkles

Instructions

 

• This funfetti cake pancake batter is super easy to make and comes together real fast. This recipe uses box mixes – both pancake box mixes and yellow cake mix. You can definitely make your own homemade pancake and cake mix and use that instead of box mix as well.
• Add 1 tablespoon of plain flour into sprinkles. Mix and set aside until use.

To Make Pancake Batter –

• In a medium bowl mix dry ingredients pancake mix, yellow cake mix and set aside.
• In another bowl whisk together wet ingredients – 2 eggs, milk, vegetable oil, vanilla extract. Whisk together until smooth.
• Add the dry mix into the bowl of wet mix. Do NOT OVER MIX. It’s okay to if batter has small lumps. They will disappear once you cook it.

Cook Pancakes –

• When you are ready to make pancakes, add sprinkles to the batter and stir very gently making sure you don’t over mix.
• On a hot griddle ladle out ¼ cup of pancake batter. If you have large griddle pour two or three pancakes on the griddle. Cook on medium low flame.
• Once the cakes begins to bubble it’s time to flip.
• Carefully flip the pancakes and cook on other side on medium flame.
• Remove from griddle and serve immediately with vanilla glaze and whipped cream
• These are great to make ahead and freeze. Wrap individual pancakes in cling film, place in zip lock bags or air tight containers and freeze it.
• When you don’t have time to cook up a batch on busy mornings, simply remove it from freezer, reheat and serve.

To Make Vanilla Glaze –

• Whisk together powdered sugar, vanilla and heavy whipping cream. It should be of pouring consistency. If glaze is too thick, add more cream.

To Make Whipped Cream –

• Whisk chilled heavy whipping cream using hand beater until stiff peaks are formed. Transfer to piping bags fitted with star nozzle.
• Serve funfetti pancakes with vanilla glaze, whipped cream on top and sprinkles.

Video

Notes

1. For FLUFFY pancakes, do NOT over mix the batter. Pancake batter can have few lumps and they will disappear when cooked.
2. Rest pancake batter before cooking for few minutes. Resting will help make soft pancakes. Note – do not add jimmies or sprinkles at this point. Add it after resting time when ready to cook.
3. Over mixing will take away the beautiful soft texture of pancakes. Nobody wants tough/hard pancakes. Once flour comes together with wet ingredients, STOP MIXING, even if you see lumps.
4. Use heavy pan like cast iron griddle to cook pancakes, so pancakes won’t stick.
5. Griddle should be hot enough before you start cooking. Preheat griddle when pancake batter is resting. If griddle is too hot, pancakes will burn from outside, under-cooked inside. If griddle it not hot enough, pancakes will take longer to cook and will turn hard.
6. Spray or grease pan with very little cooking oil or butter, to help release pancakes easily. Remember pancakes will absorb the oil or butter, use little.
7. Use good quality sprinkles so the colors don’t run into the batter. Another great tip is to fold sprinkles with little flour first before mixing into the batter.
8. Once you fold in sprinkles into the batter, cook pancakes immediately.
9. It’s important to know when you should flip pancakes. Once the edges start to cook and you see couple of bubbles at the center, carefully flip. It takes lesser time to cook the top side than bottom side.
10. Flipping is done only ONCE. So wait before you flip. Flip only after bottom side is cooked.
11. Do NOT press down the pancakes. You want them to be soft and fluffy!
12. For homemade pancake mix – use 1 cup all purpose flour add 2 teaspoon baking powder, ¼ teaspoon baking soda, ¼ teaspoon salt.

Nutrition

Calories: 222kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 3gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 44mgSodium: 192mgPotassium: 70mgFiber: 1gSugar: 23gVitamin A: 217IUCalcium: 89mgIron: 1mg

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