Gingerbread Pancakes
with Cream Cheese Filling & Ginger Syrup | 2 servings
- Milk
- Eggs
- Wheat
Over here, we think brunch is a food group—especially around the holidays. Today’s fix: Winter-morning ready brown sugar and warming-spiced pancakes stuffed with a sweet cream cheese filling. To make these stacks extra festive, you’ll drizzle them with ginger maple syrup. Feel free to break out the special plates or just enjoy this meal in your coziest PJs.
Ingredients
1 thumb
Ginger
2 tablespoon
Maple Syrup
1 teaspoon
Cinnamon
4 tablespoon
Cream Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
6.75 ounce
Milk
(Contains: Milk)
2 unit
Eggs
(Contains: Eggs)
1 teaspoon
Nutmeg
164 g
Tempura Batter
(Contains: Eggs, Milk, Wheat)
3 tablespoon
Brown Sugar
Not included in your delivery
Salt
5 tablespoon
Sugar
1 teaspoon
Cooking Oil
4.5 tablespoon
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
Nutrition Values
Cooking Steps
Wash and dry produce. Peel and mince or grate ginger until you have 3 tsp. Combine maple syrup, ½ cup water, 2 TBSP sugar, 2 tsp ginger, and ¼ tsp cinnamon in a small pot. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to a low simmer. Cook, stirring occasionally, until thickened and sugar has dissolved, 8-10 minutes. Turn off heat, then stir in 3 TBSP butter until melted. Cover and keep warm until ready to serve.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine cream cheese and 2 TBSP sugar. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge until ready to use in Step 5.
Place 1½ TBSP butter and remaining ginger in a large, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave until butter melts, 45 seconds. Whisk in ¾ cup milk; stir until mixture is cool to the touch. Whisk in 1 egg* (save remaining egg for another use), 1 TBSP sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp nutmeg, and a pinch of salt until combined. Gradually whisk in tempura batter mix until just combined and batter is mostly smooth (lumps are ok!). Using a rubber spatula, gently fold in brown sugar.
Remove cream cheese mixture from fridge. Heat a drizzle of oil in a large, preferably nonstick, pan over medium heat. (TIP: Use butter instead of oil for richer-flavored pancakes.) Add ¼-cup scoops of batter to pan; cook until bubbles form on tops of pancakes, 1-2 minutes. Flip and cook until golden, 30-60 seconds more. TIP: Lower heat if pancakes begin to brown too quickly. Transfer to a plate. Repeat process with remaining batter until you have 6 pancakes, adding more oil (or butter) between batches if necessary.
Spread a thin layer of cream cheese mixture on 4 pancakes. Stack two coated pancakes, then top with a plain pancake; repeat with remaining pancakes.
Divide pancake stacks between plates. Drizzle with as much ginger syrup as you like and serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many enjoyed these sweet pancakes, though some found them too sugary. A few wanted more pronounced gingerbread spices.
- Ease of prep: Quick and simple to make, these pancakes were a hit for an easy holiday brunch 🎉.
- Suggestions: Consider reducing sugar in the batter; try adding extra ginger and spices for a stronger gingerbread flavor.
- Portions: Some wished for larger servings, as the pancakes were so tasty they wanted more.
- Syrup: The ginger syrup was delicious, but several found it didn't thicken as expected. Simmer longer for desired consistency.
Reviews from our home cooks
Cut down on the sugar. I omitted the white sugar used in the pancake batter because it would have been way too much with all the brown sugar, the cream cheese spread and syrup.
These pancakes are delicious, but we did not receive enough of the ginger to follow the recipe without buying more. This has been an issue with other recipes calling for ginger as well.
Well... please send the card instruction with appropriate meals this was the 4th meal that was missing the card instructions. The syrup was watery it never thickened so we tossed it, the pancakes were not fluffy at all. The overall taste of the pancake and filling was good though.
It needs more spices. I could not taste any of them especially with the cream cheese. I like cream cheese. But that's not why I selected this meal.
These were very sweet, good but I think too sweet. And not enough syrup.
Delicious! But I didn't know that I had to cook them. Thought they were coming already done
The syrup ended up being basically just water. If it wasn't watered down it would have been fine.
