My favorite lemon poppy seed pancakes

If you love pancakes, you’re going to adore these delicious fresh lemon poppy seed pancakes. Delicious for breakfast or lunch or a lazy Sunday morning, this easy recipe for homemade pancakes will get you started right away!

Making Lemon Poppy seed Pancakes

Poppy seed for baking may sound strange, but it is surprisingly delicious! Lemon poppy seed combinations are quite common in the US (not so much in The Netherlands, although it’s a bit more common now).

Think about lemon poppy seed muffins (my favorite muffin!) or lemon poppy seed bread. The list of recipes goes on and on!

Ever since I created a lemon poppyseed yogurt cake for one of my books, I am addicted to this delicious combination. So I wanted to do more with these two ingredients.

Be prepared for more recipes with these ingredients coming up soon. It’s that bright lemon flavor that does it for me every single time.

What goes into the lemon poppy seed pancakes

These fluffy pancakes are not difficult to make. You will need the following:

• all purpose flour
• baking powder – the combination of baking powder and baking soda make for fluffier pancakes.
• baking soda
• sugar – there is not a lot of sugar used in this recipe. A mere teaspoon is all you need, but you’re welcome to add more if you like.
• lemon – for the lemon I use the zest as that has the most lemon flavor. If you want you can add a bit of lemon extract to increase the citrusy flavor.
• poppy seeds
• eggs – Medium eggs as always
• milk – whole milk. Sometimes I also use a little Greek yogurt instead of the milk.

For baking these pancakes I use melted butter, but you can also use oil if you prefer. I like the butter better as it browns all pancakes recipes better in my opinion.

How to make the pancakes

Take a large bowl and add the dry ingredients into the bowl. Mix it for a bit before adding the wet ingredients. Mix it all through. A few lumps is not a problem, it doesn’t have to be super smooth.

Now add enough butter into a large skillet (on medium heat) and add about a quarter of a cup of batter into the pan. I also like to use an ice cream scoop to pour batter into the pan.

Let it gently simmer on medium-low heat until the top of the pancake gets a bit dry and bubbly. At that point you can flip the pancakes and bake the other side until both sides are golden brown.

Add a little butter and repeat these steps with the remaining batter until all pancakes are done. You can serve the pancakes with fresh fruit, some warm maple syrup or a dusting of powdered sugar.

More Lemon Recipes

There will be more lemon and poppy seed recipes coming up soon but for now I do already have a few delicious lemon recipes lined up for you:

• Lemon curd
• Candied lemon slices
• Lemon bars
• Lemon loaf