Spiced Apple Dutch Baby

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You are going to want to add this Spiced Apple Dutch Baby recipe to your breakfast plans this weekend. Not only is it delicious, but it’s also easy and kid approved!

Smell is one of the strongest memory stimulators there is and if I walk into a kitchen in the morning and smell caramely apples mixed with the sweet smell of pancake batter cooking I am instantly transported back to our Mom’s kitchen. She probably made Dutch Baby once a week through the fall and winter months and I’d always go over to peek in the oven to confirm what my nose was telling me – something amazing was in that oven in a cast iron pan! 

We often had an overabundance of fresh New York apples in our cold room thanks to amazing friends who owned apple orchards in New York and would bring us bushels every fall. You can use any type of apple for this Dutch Baby but Golden or Pink Lady are now my favorites. And don’t worry about peeling them, they will be tender through and through.

For this recipe, I love to use my Cast Iron Skillet. This skillet is perfect for caramelizing your apples before adding the batter, and then it’s also oven safe! Cast Iron is a great option for cooking because the heat is very evenly distributed due to the material and thickness of these pans. If you don’t have a cast iron that you love, I strongly suggest you get one. PRO TIP: you can almost always find them in antique stores or at your local second hand store. 

I guarantee this breakfast will fill your home with the sweet smells of fall and warm you from the inside out. 

Serving Suggestions:

Go ahead and sprinkle a little extra cinnamon and sugar or powdered sugar on the top to serve it if you like!

Spiced Apple Dutch Baby
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Spiced Apple Dutch Baby

Recipe by Cari FrinkCourse: BreakfastCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy
Servings

6

servings
Prep time

15

minutes
Cooking time

35

minutes

Caramelly apples surrounded by perfectly light pancake in one beautiful pan.

Ingredients

  • Carmel Apples

  • 2 Apples, sliced

  • 1/4 cup Butter

  • 1/4 cup Brown Sugar

  • 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg

  • 1/2 teaspoon Allspice

  • 1 teaspoon Cinnamon

  • Dutch Baby Batter

  • 8 Eggs

  • 1 1/2 cups Flour

  • 1 Tablespoon Sugar

  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder

  • 1 1/2 cups Milk

  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla

  • 2 Tablespoons Butter

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 425°F
  • In a large mixing bowl, mix all Dutch Baby Batter ingredients including 2 T. melted butter. Set aside while you prepare the caramelized apples.
  • Preheat a 12 inch oven safe cast iron skillet to medium-high, melt 1/4 cup butter. Add all of the spices and brown sugar and cook until bubbly. While the skillet heats and butter melts, core and slice the apples into thin slices.
  • Lay sliced apples in a circle in the the warm spices and brown sugar and allow to cook for a minute. Remove from heat.
  • Carefully pour your batter over your apples (apples will float to the top and that's ok!).
  • Bake at 425°F for 15 minutes. Then LOWER the heat to 325°F and bake for 10 more minutes.
  • Slice and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar to serve.

5 Comments

  1. Jeanene Comerford
    November 22, 2022 at 3:49 am

    That Dutch Baby looks better than any I’ve ever made 😳 (since I’m the mom you’re talking about) 🥴. Your recipe sounds like you kicked it up a notch..now I need to make it again 🥰.

  2. Deb Sims
    December 18, 2022 at 9:26 pm

    I make a Dutch Baby with my decades old cast iron skillet. Never tried with apples. Craig & will be eating this for our Christmas breakfast! Can’t wait!! Mahalo & Mele Kalikimaka!