Sharing a favorite buttermilk pancake recipe today! My Strawberry Buttermilk Pancakes with Nutella Syrup make such a perfect breakfast for the family! Sweet and delicious!
Buttermilk Pancake Recipe
So excited for you to try my Strawberry Buttermilk Pancakes with a homemade Nutella Syrup! Here’s a fair warning, you will eat more than your fair share of these pancakes so be prepared now. They have the perfect hint of strawberry topped with a Nutella syrup so good that you want to drink it straight from a glass. Make your sweetheart and family my pancakes, they’ll be happy as can be and love you forever 🙂 Let’s take a look!
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How To Make Buttermilk Pancakes
- Place flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, buttermilk, egg and vanilla into a large mixing bowl. Stir until combined. Finely chop fresh strawberries then take a fork and mash until nicely mashed. Add mashed strawberries to bowl and stir to combine. I added a drop of red food coloring to enhance the pink, but it is completely optional. Spoon a couple tablespoons of batter into a non-stick skillet over medium heat. With spoon, form a round pancake. Let cook until batter starts to bubble, takes about 1-2 minutes. Flip and cook until browned, about 1-2 additional minutes. Transfer to plate. Continue until all pancake batter is used. Keep pancakes warm.
Youll add some baking soda and sugar.
Buttermilk and an egg.
…..and a splash of vanilla.
Add the mashed strawberries straight to the bowl.
Give a nice mix. I added 1 drop of red food coloring to enhance the pink, however it is not necessary.
Spoon a couple tablespoons of batter into a hot non-stick skillet and cook until browned.
Ready for the Nutella Syrup?! Ok, start with a stick of butter and sugar right into a saucepan.
How To Make Homemade Nutella Buttermilk Syrup
- To prepare syrup, place butter, sugar and buttermilk into a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir until melted. When mixture starts to boil reduce heat and stir in baking soda and vanilla. Syrup will bubble and rise. Remove from heat and stir in Nutella until melted. Drizzle over pancakes.
Add buttermilk then cook until bubbly. Once bubbly, add baking soda and vanilla.
Your syrup will bubble and foam just like this.
Break out your Nutella and try to not eat the whole jar with a spoon before using in the syrup 🙂
Into the syrup it goes!
Oh yah! Wait until you try this.
Stack your pancakes and get ready to eat!
A little syrup please. Enjoy friends!
Tips For Making The Best Pancakes
- Mix lightly and give batter a rest! Mix pancakes minimally to avoid forming toughening gluten. There are a few ways to ensure that you mix pancake batter well without overmixing it. Have all your ingredients at room temperature. Mix cold buttermilk and eggs with melted butter and you get clumps of butter—not the end of the world, but not optimal for even distribution.
- Mix the wet and the dry ingredients separately before combining.
- Give the batter a rest before cooking. A rest of at least five minutes allows for the even hydration of the batter and also allows the gluten you created—which will develop even with careful, minimal mixing—to relax. The lumps will smooth out somewhat during this rest.
- Test a small pancake in the hot skillet/griddle to make sure temperature is good. No need to waste a full size pancake.
- Cook until bubbles cover the surface; flip before they all break.
Strawberry Buttermilk Pancakes with Nutella Syrup
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 5 medium strawberries
- 1 drop red food coloring optional
- Nutella Syrup
- 1 stick/1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 heaping tablespoons Nutella
Instructions
- Place flour, baking soda, salt, sugar, buttermilk, egg and vanilla into a large mixing bowl. Stir until combined. Finely chop fresh strawberries then take a fork and mash until nicely mashed. Add mashed strawberries to bowl and stir to combine. I added a drop of red food coloring to enhance the pink, but it is completely optional. Spoon a couple tablespoons of batter into a non-stick skillet over medium heat. With spoon, form a round pancake. Let cook until batter starts to bubble, takes about 1-2 minutes. Flip and cook until browned, about 1-2 additional minutes. Transfer to plate. Continue until all pancake batter is used. Keep pancakes warm.
- To prepare syrup, place butter, sugar and buttermilk into a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir until melted. When mixture starts to boil reduce heat and stir in baking soda and vanilla. Syrup will bubble and rise. Remove from heat and stir in Nutella until melted. Drizzle over pancakes.
These were very good! I used some leftover strawberry purée instead of the chopped strawberries, so I’m not sure if that’s why the strawberry flavor seemed to get lost. But I’m not complaining, because that syrup is amazing!!! I could drink it from a glass and be in heaven!
That stack of strawberry pancakes looks so good and they would be perfect with nutella syrup!
Made these today. Let me just say as a family that eats pancakes or French toast every weekend, and who has a hubby who only likes “plain & nothing fancy”. These were a huge hit in my house. Even my teenager who doesn’t like nutella (switched at birth, I think!) Loved these. Hubby said I could make these every weekend from now on. My picky 7 yr. old who doesn’t like pancakes and asked for thirds with these. Huge hit in my house! Thanks!
Nutella Syrup?? oh man, I’m in trouble this weekend!
I hope you and your family are doing well! Your new little man is so cute!
Made these this morning and it was so good! The Nutella syrup was amazing and so easy! Thanks for the great recipe. 🙂
What a perfect breakfast treat! I think I’m going to have to request this for my birthday….in November (yes, I’m already thinking about it). 😉
I made these pancakes this morning for my son’s Valentine’s breakfast that I prepare for him every year – even on a school morning we do a special breakfast. They were decadent! Defintely rich! The syrup sounded a little much with 1 stick of butter so I used 1/2 stick and it was plenty! Added some mini chocolate chips to the pancake batter. My son loved them and said they were chocolatey! Thanks for the great idea and new recipe! I cut out a small heart shaped piece of butter to top it off – very festive!
Oh Jenny, these look so scrumptious!!
Omg, what fun pancakes! I must try these!
What a wonderful recipe! I love the pureéd strawberries inside- adds such a wonderful pink color to the batter!
Thanks so much Audra 🙂
I’m with everyone else on the Nutella syrup. YUM!
Oh so lovely!! Perfect for breakfast tomorrow.
LOVE these!! That Nutella syrup, holy cow!
These sound awesome! Duh, I love strawberries and nutella so of course these are perfect!
Nutella syrup! How fun!!
Nutella syrup? Are you kidding me? This is pure gold! Love it.
The Nutella syrup is genius!! Love this!
Oh these look delicious! And the batter is sooo pretty! 😀
OMG. I NEED THESE IN MY LIFE NOW!!!!!
Yum! So beautiful and perfect breakfast tomorrow 🙂
I’m thinking I don’t even want to know the calorie count on these babies! Will be the perfect valentine’s day breakfast for my son. I’ve been making him a special v-tine’s day breakfast ever since he was just a little guy. I’ll be adding some mini chocolate chips to the pancakes. Thanks for the idea!
Saw the picture and thought OMG just the thing for my BFF and and me. We both love strawberries and Nutella so had to print us each a copy. Thanks so much.
OMG-So making this for Valentine’s breakfast!!!!
Such a FUN breakfast for a sweet Valentine 🙂
shut the front door… Nutella syrup!!?!? This sounds amazing.
i love the pink on this!! perfect valentine’s breakfast and very festive too 🙂 can i drink that syrup? 😉
The pink colour is so pretty! and the nutella syrup is just so creative. I definitely have to try this soon =)
These look divine! We try to do a pancake night once a week. I am adding this to the list!
I love the pink pancakes, but that Nutella syrup could probably be consumed on its own with a big straw!
nutella syrup will complete my life.
Repeat after me : Nutella is our Best friend ! I love this idea of syrup.
that syrup sounds (and looks) amazing! This combo sounds perfect to sweeten my husbands valentines day (and his birthday!)
This look so yummy ! Thanks for the recipe, I’m definitely going to try it!
Love from France
Jenny they look so good! I made my daughter a strawberry bday cake + strawberry buttercream for her bday last weekend and if I made these pancakes, they’d be a huge hit here. Love Nutella, too!