SWEET DUTCH BABY … that tastes like a French pastry.

The magical experience of a Dutch Baby never gets old—pour a liquid batter into a hot pan and bake it. When you pull it out of the oven, it will have blown up into what’s basically a giant pancake bowl. I wanted this Dutch Baby to feel like the cream meets bread feeling of a French pastry. I started by incorporating cinnamon into the Dutch Baby to give it a French Toast feel and then made the quick and easy cream cheese based topping. When it comes to that cream cheese mixture, I left it on the cream cheesy side versus making it super sweet because I knew I’d be topping it with extra sugar and maple syrup and wanted more of a balanced finished dish. That said, if you want it sweeter, add more confectioner’s sugar when you’re mixing together your cream cheese in your stand mixer.