These Funfetti Pancakes will make a birthday shine or give an ordinary day a special start. A cake mix gives it that well-loved cake batter flavor, but these still have a wonderful pancake texture. And don’t forget the buttercream glaze on top!
Today’s a special day in our house. It’s Kinslee’s birthday! Her official birthday, anyway. She’s actually had three celebrations already, but this day is still special to her. In our house, no birthday is complete without SPRINKLES. I love starting the day with a healthy breakfast, but on birthdays all bets are off. The sugar comes out in full force.
This stack of Funfetti Pancakes were a huge hit at Kinslee’s birthday sleepover last week. The girls loved the colorful sprinkles inside. This giggly group of breakdancers were more than happy to be my taste testers.
“They taste like wedding cake!” Success #1.
“The frosting is soooooo good! It melts in my mouth!” Success #2.
“Can I have more?” Success #3.
These pancakes are made with a box of Pillsbury Funfetti cake mix. Now we’ve showed you how to make a cake mix pancake recipe before and they’ve been a favorite ever since. Why change a good thing, you ask? For these Funfetti Pancakes, I wanted more of a pancake texture instead of a cupcake texture. A little firmer, not as “cakey”, but still super soft and fluffy.
To get the texture I wanted, I started with my favorite pancake recipe, Amish Griddle Cakes. I adjusted the ratio of the ingredients just a bit, then added in a Funfetti cake mix. After a couple test pancakes and adjustments, I had my perfect pancake texture.
Don’t forget the melt-in-your mouth vanilla buttercream glaze on top. It’s your classic vanilla buttercream turned into a fantastically sweet drizzle to spoon over your freshly made pancakes. For my little pink-loving, ballerina, happy-go-lucky, newly 9-year old, it doesn’t get much better than that.
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Q: What is the one thing you always celebrate with on your birthdays?
Funfetti Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 box Pillsbury Funfetti cake mix
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 3 large eggs
- 2 1/3 cups milk
- 1/3 cup sprinkles
Frosting:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter softened
- 2 tablespoons half & half cream
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and cake mix. Set aside.
- In another small bowl, mix together the oil, eggs and milk.
- Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Fold in the sprinkles. Batter will be thick. (If you'd like thinner pancakes, you can add a bit more milk.)
- Heat a griddle to about 250-275 degrees (low heat so the pancakes do not burn). Spray the griddle with cooking spray.
- Ladle the pancake batter onto the hot pan and cook the pancakes for about 1-2 minutes or until bubbles start forming in the batter. Flip the pancake and cook for an additional minute or until cooked through.
- This recipes makes about 22 5" pancakes.
For the Frosting
- In a small bowl, stir together the powdered sugar, softened butter, cream and vanilla. This frosting will be at a spreadable consistency.
- If you'd like to drizzle the frosting, microwave the frosting for about 10 seconds and stir, then drizzle over the pancakes.
- Double the frosting recipe, if desired.
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Adorable, awesome & pinned 🙂
Happy Birthday! How festive and fun. No birthdays but we will be having a bridal shower this month for my daughter. Thanks for the recipe.
Love these – what a delicious and pretty dish to wake up to on a birthday morning! Pinning and sharing! Have a happy Tuesday!
We do special breakfasts for birthdays too! 🙂 This would be awesome any time, but especially for a borthday! Happy belated birthday to Kinslee!
The Birthday Pancakes are really festive. Nice photos.
These pancakes look fantastic! I love pretty much everything funfetti related, so I will definitely be pinning these to try later! 🙂
These are so fun! My children would just love them:) Pinned! Thanks so much for linking up at the Project Parade Party!
These look delicious! Thanks again for linking up to the Monday Funday Party!
I love your house rule of sprinkles for birthdays!! These pancakes are so cute, and they sound absolutely delicious! Hope Kinslee had a great birthday!
Oh, yum!! My kids would love these!
YES PLEASE!! These look Super yummy!
These were delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
In love with this recipe! My boyfriend woke up to these yummy pancakes on his birthday and he loved them. Raved about em and asked how i made these taste like cake. He wanted more the next day :)! He is a veryyy picky eater and i was happy to see him enjoy these so much. Thanks for sharing!!
Should the temp be changed if making these in a mini muffin tin?
Oh, these look delicious!!! I’d love to make them tomorrow for dinner (breakfast for dinner is my fav!). I don’t have funfetti cake mix on hand but I have a box of yellow cake mix. Will that work just as well?
Delicious! Huge hit, especially the frosting! Used this as the birthday cake for our breakfast get together! Definitely double the icing, you’ll want it.
I just made these for a birthday breakfast and they turned out wonderfully! The kids and adults loved them. I splashed a little more milk into the frosting to make it more “pourable” but other than that I followed the recipe exactly and it was perfect!
Can you tell me the recipe without using a cake mix? Or can you point me to someone who can develop this recipe without using a store bought shortcut? I want to make these from scratch. Thankss
How can you cut this in 1/2?
Can you use this recipe in a waffle maker?
Hi,
I was just woundering if you have to use the funfetti cake mix!😢😮😮😉😊😁😁😁😀😀😀😄😄😄😄😃😃😃😂😂😂
I just tried to make this ended up with a goopy thick batter …. Where did I go wrong!
Just made these. I have made many times before. I love them For birthday mornings: but thought I would comment. Don’t use the non pareil sprinkles. The little balls, in your batter. The color just mixes with batter and turns it like a muddled gray:/
do you think you could make these on a sheet pan and then just cut them into squares and serve?
I would like to make this as my daughters actual birthday cake so my question is… Will it be fine to make overnight and frost as well? Or is made to eat warm?