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Make these festive Santa pancakes with this easy homemade recipe or your favorite mix.

Fruit helps you build these Santa pancakes, making this holiday breakfast nutritious and fun.

Easy Santa Pancakes

With my family loving fluffy pancakes year-round, and my kids loving themed pancakes, these Santa pancakes were the thing to make.

You can use the homemade recipe I share below or make pancakes with a mix, just like with my Grinch pancakes, for an epic Christmas breakfast!

How to Make Santa Pancakes

Here are the easy steps to make Santa pancakes:

Make the batter by mixing the ingredients. Use my homemade recipe or a pancake mix.
Slice the fruit and prep the ingredients to make Santa’s face.
Cook the pancakes as usual.
Assemble Santa pancakes by arranging the hat, the beard, and the eyes.

You can let your kids create Santa’s face, or you can make it for them. Here are some ideas for each part of Santa’s:

Beard: sliced banana, whipped cream, or mini marshmallows.
Hat: raspberries, strawberry slices, cherries, or cranberries.
Pompom: whipped cream, a marshmallow, or a banana slice.
White band of the hat: whipped cream, coconut flakes, white chocolate chips, or mini marshmallows.
Eyes and nose: dried fruit, blueberries, M&M, or chocolate chips.

Swap the theme and make reindeer pancakes or snowman pancakes. Or indulge in a giant cinnamon roll that’s easy to make with canned dough.

Servings: 6

Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 10

Total Time: 15

Make these festive Santa pancakes with this easy homemade recipe or your favorite mix.

5 from 5 votes

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder, aluminum-free
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 ½ cups milk, any
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted
2 teaspoons vanilla extract, optional
Banana slices (beard), raspberries and whipped cream (hat), dried fruit and M&M (eyes)

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Make a well in the middle and pour in the milk, egg, butter, and vanilla extract. Break up the egg first with a fork, and then begin mixing it with the flour, working from the outside of the bowl in, until just combined and the batter is mostly smooth.

Heat a non-stick griddle or large pan over medium-high heat. Once hot, grease, spray, or melt butter on the hot surface. When using an electric griddle, heat it somewhere between 300 and 350F.
Immediately, pour ¼ cup of pancake batter onto the greased pan. Cook the pancakes for about 2 minutes per side. Remove the pancakes from the pan onto a plate and keep them warm while you cook the rest of the batter.

Peel and slice a banana for the beard and the eyes. Arrange the raspberries for the hat, and form the white band and the pompom with whipped cream. Use dried fruit and/or M&M for the nose and the eye balls.