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These peanut butter pancakes are topped with a homemade chocolate syrup and chopped up peanut butter cups for a decadent dessert that is ready in 15 minutes!
Can we talk for like, 2 seconds, about my husband and how he is basically asking me to smother him in his sleep?
You guys. That man. Ugh.
We have three pillows on our bed. Mine is a king sized, lovely down pillow. It goes under my head. Then we have a standard sized, older down pillow that isn’t quite as fluffy and I spoon it all night. Then we have my husband’s awful king sized lumpy pillow that cost less than $10 from Walmart, but I can’t even feel bad because he picked it out himself and I told him that it was a bad pillow. He was warned and he still made the choice.
So, he goes to bed before me and some nights all is well when I come in the room. (Some nights the foot corner is by my head.) Other times, he’s cuddling my pillow.
I start off with a big sigh and then convince myself that it will allllll be okay. I can sleep without hugging a pillow for one night, I’m not a child. After all, I love the man. He works so hard and he must be exhausted and I wouldn’t dream of waking him up to take back my pillow.
Then I start passive-aggressively thinking about how in the morning when my husband asks me if I slept well, I’ll say NO. That will teach him, for sure.
Soon after that I get a bit more aggressive than passive and start fake sleep flailing around in the hopes that my movement will wake him up and/or break his nose. It never does.
Finally, I realize that I don’t care how exhausted he must be. If he’d just fall asleep with his one pillow instead of his pillow and my pillow, then he’d be able to sleep just fine. After all, I’ve offered to buy him an extra pillow or a better pillow many times and he always says no. This is not fair and it’s time to right the wrong he has done to me.
I violently poke him in the shoulder and as he stirs, I yank the pillow out from under him and hiss, “miiiiiiine.”
I’m a treasure and he loves me.
Anyway, it’s pretty obvious that in order to keep the man around, I have to shower him with treats. I mean, hello. I’m kind of insane at bedtime.
So, when I was writing my book, I went ahead and included one of our favorite candies – peanut butter cups!
You could totally make these pancakes for breakfast, but you know, don’t tell your mom. She’d yell at you for sure.
Stack Happy has a whole chapter of dessert pancakes and that’s where this recipe resides. I mean, it’s pancakes topped with candy. Dessert city! And, let’s be real…pancakes for dessert are so much fun and totally unexpected!
These pancakes are packed with peanut butter, topped with chocolate syrup, and then sprinkled with chopped up candy. I mean, whut? Can you even?
My book has a recipe for absolutely perfect homemade chocolate syrup and it’s amazing on these pancakes! If you don’t have the book, you can go ahead and pour on the store bought syrup. Or buy my book! 😉
For more recipes from Stack Happy, check out these links: cinnamon raisin bread pancakes, French toast pancakes (<— there’s a giveaway for the book at this link!), and chicken and pancakes!
Peanut Butter Cup Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 2 Tbsp. sugar
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 large egg beaten
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate peanut butter cups chopped into small pieces
- Chocolate syrup for serving
- Whipped cream for serving
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet or griddle over medium heat.
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk to combine.
- In a small bowl, mix together the buttermilk, egg, and peanut butter.
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until combined, but still slightly lumpy.
- Spray your cooking surface with non-stick cooking spray and place ¼ cup of the pancake batter in the pan.
- The batter is very thick and will need spread a bit with the back of a spoon, spatula, or your ¼ cup measure.
- Sprinkle immediately with a few pieces of chopped peanut butter cups. Use a spoon to spread a bit of the batter over the candy pieces. Cook for 3 minutes per side or until cooked through. Repeat with remaining pancakes.
- Top with whipped cream, chocolate syrup, and more candy pieces.
Anu-My Ginger Garlic Kitchen says
Peanut butter pancakes sounds and looks absolutely dELISH! Would love t give them a try! AWSOME! 🙂
Thao @ In Good Flavor says
These pancakes are decadent and I would have them for breakfast, or dessert, or snack, or lunch, or brunch, or dinner! Thanks for amusing me with your pillow story. 🙂
Lynn | The Road to Honey says
Oh my. . .I think I just gained 10 pounds looking at these. Can a pancake get anymore indulgent? Quick, quick. . .hide this recipe before the hubs sees it. . .otherwise he will be expecting this for breakfast. . .like everyday.
Loving these sinful pancakes. . .but i will need to reserve for special occasions for fear that i will no longer fit into my pants.
Diana says
When I read about the pillow incident..I had to laugh as we have 4 pillows on the bed and he insists on stealing my pillows because they smell good and mine are always fluffed up and his aren’t ! LOL
May have to try the pancake idea, but with my girlfriends as hubs is a diabetic .. Thanks for the recipe.
Karly says
Pillow stealers are the worst!
Diana says
Yes they are .. There should be a program for them not to steal pillows!!!!! 🙂
Jocelyn says
These look positively yummy! I too am wondering how much peanut butter to add. Thanks!
Karly says
Sorry about that. For some reason any time I copy in 1/3 I get a question mark instead. Weird! But, anyway, it’s 1/3 of a cup. 🙂
Jocelyn says
I made these pancakes for breakfast this morning, and they are terrific! I couldn’t bring myself to sprinkle on the peanut butter cups; the chocolate syrup and whipped cream were plenty decadent. (Actually, my husband enjoyed his with butter and maple syrup.)
I purchased the Easy Whisk you recommended in a recent post. It worked great for mixing up the peanut butter/buttermilk/egg mixture. Thanks for that tip!
Karly says
So glad you liked the pancakes and the whisk! 🙂
Chrisy says
These pancakes. I can’t even.
Except that I CAN and I’ll probably try to make them this weekend. They look too good not to! 😀
And I feel you on the sleep-time battles. My guy sleeps with not one, not two, but THREE pillows. I usually wake up 1-2 times during the night because he’s lost track of one and it’s somehow laying on my back or smothering my face. But I’ll deal with it as long as he doesn’t untuck the covers on the foot of my side of the bed. Those covers can NEVER be untucked. And if he ever wants to see pancakes like this, he had best keep it that way!
Karly says
Oh, this made laugh. You sound very serious about the covers being untucked.
Melissa says
How much peanut butter does the recipe call for? It just appears as a question mark
Karly says
Sorry about that! It’s 1/3 of a cup.
Kelsey @ Snacking Squirrel says
I have a little fat kid inside of me who is screaming out at the computer screen right now! GIMME!!!! haha
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
PEANUT BUTTER CUP PANCAKES??!!!
yesyesyesyesyessityyesyesYES
Robyn Stone | Add a Pinch says
Karly –
I’ll give you MY pillow for some of these ah-mazing pancakes!!! I audibly gasped when I saw these as this is my very favorite candy – ever!
Congrats on your book! I wish you much success – I’m sure it will do wonderfully!!!
Now about these pancakes for pillows deal….
Robyn xo
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar says
You are a girl after my own heart! LOVE this idea!! Holy smokes!
Jen @ Baked by an Introvert says
I’m so thankful hubby has his own snuggling pillow. I would have no choice but to fight him in his sleep if he took mine, ha! But then I’d of course make up for it with this huge stack of pancakes. These look phenomenal!
Shawn @ I Wash You Dry says
I’m seriously so glad I’m not the only one who needs to snuggle a pillow. My husband generally hates sleeping with a pillow, so when I come to bed and he’s snuggling my body pillow (yes, I have a body pillow. you should too) I yank it out of his arms and all is right with the world again. HAHA! These pancakes look absolutely delicious! My dream flavor combo right there!
Karly says
I’ve thought about getting a body pillow, but I’m afraid it will drive my husband insane! I might just go ahead and get it anyway. 😉
Carlee @cookingwithcarlee says
Too funny! This sounds like something that would happen with my husband and myself. And the idea of pancakes for dessert is a great one. I love breakfast food, but rarely eat breakfast. So this is perfect!
Erin @ Miss Scrambled Egg says
So, my favorite food since I was four has been pancakes. I will never say no to a pancake…ever. These might have to be shared for dessert! They look extremely rich and sweet; just how I like ’em!