Cinnamon Bun PANCAKES with Bobby Flay | Brunch @ Bobby’s | Food Network

Welcome back everybody, today it's all about taking your bakery favorites, your bakery classics and turning them on their head and creating new dishes. Now we're going to move on to some pancakes that are going to be inspired by your favorite cinnamon bun. So now I'm going to start by making cinnamon sugar swirl. We started with some brown butter and I'm going to add about a half a cup of dark brown sugar and then a couple of teaspoons of cinnamon. Whisk this together. This is what we're going to actually pipe into our pancakes when we put them in the pan. I'm going to add about a quarter cup of water. It's going to get a little thick, a little syrupy and the cinnamon is cooking, it smells great here. I want to keep stirring it because I don't want the cinnamon to clump up or the sugar. And a couple of tablespoons of cream. And you really have to let this cool to use it. Smells good though. Okay, so we have a little bit of warm maple syrup, I'm going to pour it right over some softened cream cheese. This is going to create our cream cheese glaze or frosting, basically what you get on top of a cinnamon bun. And this you want to whisk pretty vigorously so it gets nice and smooth. Okay, let's make some pancakes. Let's start with one and a half cups of all purpose flour. You know I always have my recipes written down for batters and doughs, but you don't have to write them down because all you need to do is go to foodnetwork.com slash brunch and the recipes are right there for you. One teaspoon of baking powder and a half a teaspoon of baking soda, three tablespoons of sugar, a good pinch of salt, mix these together and then we're going to get to our wet ingredients. Couple of eggs, one and a half cups of buttermilk. You could use regular milk, but I love the flavor of buttermilk and also I think buttermilk makes for a more tender pancake. A little bit of vanilla extract, three tablespoons of melted butter. The melted butter is going to help make the pancakes a little golden brown on the outside. Now we're just going to fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients just until it forms a batter. Don't want to over mix them. Pancakes make me very happy, it's such a good thing, who doesn't like pancakes? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get my brown sugar and cinnamon mixture and put it into a pastry bag so that when I put my pancakes into the pan I can actually swirl it right into the middle of the pancake. So you can see it's kind of thickened up as it's cooled. Lots of delicious goodness in here. Cinnamon, brown butter, brown sugar, and a little cream. Start making some pancakes. I'm going to get some butter going in my pan. So we're going to put some pancake batter right into the pan and I'm going to spread a little bit. Let those cook for a second. We're going to take our cinnamon and brown sugar swirl and just swirl it right into the middle. So what we're going to do is we're going to let the pancakes cook on one side, get them nice and crusty, and then we'll flip them over really quickly on the swirl side down just to kind of cook the top of it. For the most part, you're going to cook them on one side, say like 80% on one side, flip them over for another 20% of the time, and then we'll be done. I slowed down the heat a little bit so that they actually cook through without getting too brown on the bottom side. At the same time, we don't want them to get too crusty here. Here we go. Ready? Count to 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. They're beautiful. It's almost like you kind of slice the pancake in half and you reveal the cinnamon right there. We're going to keep making some cinnamon bun pancakes. We've made a pancake batter and we just swirled the brown sugar and cinnamon mixture right into the pancake. Look how beautiful that is. Nicely caramelized and it's actually part of the pancake and it looks like a cinnamon bun, except it's a pancake. Who knew? Let's give some of these a taste. Really beautiful. I'm going to chop some pecans, some toasted pecans, and we're going to take our maple and cream cheese glaze or sauce, and then a few of the chopped pecans, and let's get at it. You know, it really tastes like one of those glazed cinnamon buns with the cream cheese and the maple glaze on top of the bun itself. We have the cinnamon and the brown sugar running through that swirl. Such a cool idea, and it's really beautiful too, and easy to do.