Instant Pot Pancake Cake

This enormous pancake is big enough to feed several people.

Instant pot pancake cake.

Made with chocolate chunks these fluffy instant pot pancakes are the perfect fun delicious breakfast recipe that does not require flipping or babysitting. Set to low pressure. Lock the lid into place and seal the steam release handle. Giant japanese style rice cooker pancakes made in the instant pot instead.

Using nonstick cooking spray grease the bottom and sides of a 6 quart instant pot. Pour pancake mix into the instant pot. What can t this instant pot do. There is no need to flip pancake after pancake use your instant pot makes a giant fluffy and mess free breakfast for large crowds.

Because the pancake isn t cooked on the griddle you won t get the browned and crispy edges but you do get an incredibly moist cake. Pour batter into pot and seal lid. Use a spatula to loosen the cake from the sides of the pan. If you recall i shared a recipe for giant rice cooker pancakes last year.

The recipe is ready to go for a 6 inch pan as is. It s a favorite in our house and so for easter. Or just bake this instant pot cake. Great recipe my first instant pot cake.

With this instant pot pancake bites recipe i use a pre made pancake mix. Cook for 45 minutes. I also substituted 1 2 cup brown sugar for 1 2 cup of the white sugar and put it in the oven after taking it out of the instant pot for 10 minutes at 375 to brown the apples. Fluffy instant pot pancakes.

The only thing i don t love about pancakes is standing in front of the stove and cooking one or two at at time. It takes less than 5 minutes to prepare and the instant pot does the rest of the work. With the instant pot a good pancake mix and some silicone molds you can make your own pancake bites in minutes. I do not recommend making this instant pot cake without a pan meaning spreading the batter in the bottom of the instant pot as the batter will burn.

Carefully take the cake out upside down so that the bottom is. Use a spatula to remove pancake. The instant pot is utilized in a slightly different way to cook a pancake. Now it s flipping pancakes for me while i m in bed drinking coffee.

It does not ever come up to pressure mostly because it has no liquid added to the pot. I increased the amount of cinnamon added 1 8th tsp nutmeg and 1 8th tsp allspice and 1 4 tsp dried lemon peel. The cake comes out super fluffy. The instant pot will not have sealed because of low pressure and lack of liquid.

Cook on low pressure manual 40 minutes. It s so versatile when it comes to cooking.