Peach, Banana & Pecan Pancakes – With chopped pecans, mashed banana and pieces of fresh peach, these hearty, flavorful pancakes are a perfect way to celebrate peach season. I served my pancakes with homemade peach syrup (see below) and even more peaches.  It’s a peach explosion!

Peach Waffles – Waffles are wonderful, but they might be best when they’re full of peaches and topped with more peaches swimming in peach syrup with a dollop of whipped cream for a final touch.

Peach Pancake Syrup – The pancakes and waffles above were both served with this easy-to-make homemade peach syrup.  See the recipe for additional suggestions to make Peach Maple Syrup and Peach Nectarine Syrup.

Peach Smoothie - One of the best ways to appreciate a peach at the height of the season is to toss it in a blender and drink it down.  This particular smoothie combines a fresh peach with orange juice and vanilla yogurt.  Add a banana for even more flavor.

Almond Peach Muffins - Did you know peaches and almonds are in the same family (the genus Prunus)?  Maybe that’s why they taste so great together.  This beauty has chopped peaches and chopped almonds in a vanilla batter.  I sprinkled some additional almonds over them at the end to add some crunch and make them pretty. One might say, “Pretty as a peach.”

Pecan Peach Muffins - This is my particular favorite of the recipes on this page.  I made it for the first time a few weeks ago and I haven’t been able to get enough since.  The peach cake batter is fantastic and the pecan and brown sugar crumble is to die for.  A little bit of the crumble sinks into the batter as it bakes, producing a great caramelized flavor in every moist bite.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg.  Here are 10 more peach breakfast ideas:

Peaches And Cream Oatmeal

Baked Peach French Toast

Peach-Nut Coffee Cake

Peach Bellini Brunch Cocktail

• Peach Cobbler Oatmeal
• Peach Crepes
• Easy Peach Crisp with Cereal Topping
• Baked Peach Pancakes
• White Peach Bourbon French Toast
• Peach French Toast

If you try any of the recipes, be sure to leave a comment on that recipe’s page or drop me a note here.  Here’s hoping you have a peachy keen day!  I’ll leave you with this…

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.” – Alice Walker (American author and poet)

National Eat A Peach Day is August 22.

A couple Thanksgivings ago, I introduced you to the Pancake Turkey.  This year, I’d like you to meet Pancake Turkey II, a variation on the concept of pancake turkeys.  I’ll also introduce you to a special, new Thanksgiving friend… the Fruit Turkey. If that’s not enough… new for Thanksgiving 2014, I will show you the rare and exotic Muffins Turkey.

This (above) is the first pancake turkey I ever made. For this gobbler, you need a pancake mix (or homemade pancake batter), a banana, candy corn, a chocolate chip or a raisin and a maraschino cherry or a small dollop of red jam.  You can get complete instructions right here.

This is my latest attempt at the craft of pancake turkeys.  This one has a little more dimension.  To make this guy, you need pancakes, a banana, raisins, sliced almonds and a cashew.

Making the body is just a matter of making one normal pancake and one that’s vaguely phallic.  Slice the banana and you’re ready to go.

Now, this handsome follow is a rare, endangered fruit turkey.  He’s endangered because I’m seriously about to eat him.  Fortunately, you can help repopulate the fruit turkey population with a pear, an apple, an orange, 2 mini-chocolate chips, a raisin and a cashew.

What should I name my fruit turkey?  Your comments are welcome below.

Here’s a pair of exotic Muffin Turkeys.  You can make these with any muffins.  You’ll need some grapes, candy corn (wedged into the grape) and some red and green apple slices.  A toothpick is used to attach the grape head to the muffin body.  I made eyes with icing and chocolate sprinkles.  You could also just dab on some chocolate sauce or peanut butter.  The muffins I used for these turkeys were Apple Bran Muffins.

That concludes today’s lesson in the art of breakfast turkeys.  All that’s left to say is “Happy Thanksgiving!”  I hope it’s your best one ever!

Further Reading:

Turning Thanksgiving Leftovers Into Great Breakfasts

This is such a simple and fun concept, I’m surprised it’s not already wildly popular.  Basically, all you do is make tiny pancakes, chop some fruit and stab everything with a toothpick.  Any pancake batter will do.  I like to use a popular pancake recipe on MrBreakfast.com.  But you can just as easily use Aunt Jemima or another pancake mix.

I’ve seen a few examples on the internet of people using strawberries, bananas and apple slices, but I thought it’d be fun to take it a few steps further.

Make pancakes about the size of 50-cent pieces.  I’ve found that 2/3 Tablespoon batter per pancake gives you the right size.  In the picture above, the pancakes to the left were actually too large.  The ones on the right, as Goldilocks might say, were just right.  Be sure to have some maple syrup standing by as a dipping sauce.

The way my mind works, I immediately thought of bacon.

These baked apple pancake skewers were delicious.  I prepared the apples in the microwave with sugar, cinnamon and maple syrup.  Here’s the directions to make apple pancake topping in the microwave.

The strawberry pancake skewers were great.  The banana pancake skewers were terrific. But I can tell you, the strawberry and banana skewers surrounded by whipped cream were dynamite.

The bacon and sausage pancake skewers were a little unwieldy, but I mean… you can taste them with your eyes, right?  If I had a do-over with this one, I’d probably use small sausage patties instead of links.

This was the start of my hyper-experimental phase:  Baked Apple & Country Sausage Pancake Skewers.  There’s nothing particularly “country” about the sausage.  I just liked how it sounded in the name.

Towards the end of my Pancake Skewer Breakfast Party, I was going a little insane.  However, there was magic in my madness that resulted in the bacon and banana pancake skewer.

I’d dipped most of the other skewers in maple syrup.  For this one, I put some creamy peanut butter in the microwave for 20 seconds so it had more of a sauce-like consistency.  I liked it.  If he were alive today, I think Elvis Presley would have liked it too. (That’s a reference to the famous Elvis Presley Breakfast Sandwich.)

For as many pancake skewers as I made, I feel like I’ve just scratched the surface. The possibilities seem almost endless.  What about a ham skewer?  A pineapple skewer?  How about a ham and pineapple Hawaiian pancake skewer?   If you have an idea for a skewer, let me know in the comments section below.

Here’s wishing you a fun and successful Pancake Skewer Breakfast Party of your own!

This is so easy, it feels like a magic trick.  Take two apples and… abracadabra!  Five minutes later, you have a delicious Cinnamon Maple Apple Topping for your pancakes, waffles or French toast.  The combination of baked apple, maple and cinnamon results in a a warm, autumn-like flavor that adds a cozy, fresh finish to almost any breakfast.

Cinnamon Maple Apple Pancake Topping (In The Microwave)

• 2 medium apples
• 1 Tablespoon sugar
• 1 Tablespoon maple syrup
• 3 dashes of cinnamon

Peel, core and slice the apples.  Place in a microwave safe bowl and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.  Toss to coat. Microwave on high for 5 minutes.  Stir in maple syrup.  Serve warm.

4 servings.

For these pancakes, I used Granny Smith apples to make the topping.  They’re sweet and just a little bit tart.  Their flavor really comes out when you mix them with sugar and maple syrup.  For the finishing touch, I added a little dab of whipped cream to the top of the stack.  It was better than apple pie.

Just look at how homemade apple topping turns a bowl of boring oatmeal into a breakfast delight.  I like to sprinkle a Tablespoon or two of granola over the baked apples so you get a little crunch.  Of course, a dab of whipped cream works here too.

Any topping that’s good on pancakes will usually be equally awesome on a waffle or French toast.  For the waffle shown here, I drizzled just a little extra maple syrup so each dimple of the waffle had plenty of flavor.

This topping also makes a great filling for crepes.  It’s terrific on toast in place of jam.  It’s even good just on its own… with maybe a dab of whipped cream.  Is it clear yet that I like whipped cream?

This recipe is so easy and it really does turn plain breakfast fare into something special.  I hope you’ll give it a try.

It’s so simple.  So easy.  Why haven’t we all been doing this for years?

It’s just eggs, bacon and a pancake.  The genius is in the presentation. The pancake takes the place of a taco shell.  Syrup becomes your salsa.  Fill the shell with goodness and there you have it.  Pancake Tacos!

I got the idea from an article on LAist.com.  They were talking about a food truck in Los Angeles called (no joke) The Eggslut Truck and showed a picture of their Pancake Tacos.  I did a quick search and found that other people were making what they called Pancake Tacos, but it was mostly just sausage links wrapped in pancakes.  They didn’t look like tacos at all.

So I set out to make my own version of a pancake taco that actually looked like a taco.  I think I got it.  In truth, they could look like weird piles of nonsense and they’d still be muy delicious!  Very delicious!

Here’s the recipe:

Pancake Tacos

Pancake Tacos from The Eggslut Truck:

Pancake Tacos By Mr Breakfast:

Expect to wait a while for a table.  The place gets BUSY.  The waiters and servers are exceptionally fast and the food hits your table minutes after you order.  The line to get in can be daunting, but it mores pretty fast.

Have cash on hand because they don’t take credit cards.  Most importantly, bring your appetite.  The portions are huge.  I had pancakes and eggs with a side of bacon.  I’m ashamed to say it could have fed a family of four.

There’s nothing gourmet about the food.  It’s just good American diner food done right.  I’ve had better pancakes.  I’ve had better eggs.  The Pantry is all about the portions and the environment.  I enjoyed my breakfast, but mostly because I had to wait for it and there was so much of it.

If you’re ever looking for breakfast in Downtown LA, give the Pantry a try.  It’s pretty fun.

The Original Pantry Cafe
877 S. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90017