Almost-Famous Cheesecake Pancakes

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: About 8 pancakes
  • Total: 30 min
  • Active: 30 min
In 2007, IHOP recipe developers did the unimaginable: They cut up a whole cheesecake, added chunks of it to pancake batter and topped the finished stack of flapjacks like a big dessert, with sweet strawberry sauce. Hey, when you serve 700 million pancakes every year, you have to mix things up sometimes. The new addition to the menu was a huge hit — with everyone except the weight-watching crowd. It comes in at a whopping 1,100 calories an order! Our advice: Just eat one or two instead of the whole stack.
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Ingredients

1 1/2 cups strawberries, hulled and sliced

2 tablespoons seedless strawberry jam

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/4 cups buttermilk

1 large egg

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

Pinch of salt

2 cups chopped frozen cheesecake

Cooking spray

Butter, confectioners' sugar or whipped cream, for topping (optional)

Directions

  1. Mix the strawberries, jam and 2 tablespoons warm water in a bowl; set aside. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F.
  2. Pulse the flour, buttermilk, egg, vegetable oil, granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a blender until smooth. Transfer to a bowl and stir in the cheesecake pieces, keeping them whole.
  3. Coat a large nonstick skillet or griddle with cooking spray and heat over medium heat. Working in batches, pour about 1/4 cup batter into the skillet for each pancake. Cook until bubbly on top, about 4 minutes, then flip and cook until the other side is golden brown, about 2 more minutes. Transfer the finished pancakes to a baking sheet and keep warm in the oven. Serve the pancakes topped with the strawberry sauce; top with butter, confectioners' sugar or whipped cream, if desired.

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Katrina G.

The batter was extremely watery. I also used an ENTIRE frozen cheesecake, not just 2 cups, because it kept falling apart on the skillet. Wasted all of that money on a frozen cheesecake and an hour of my time

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