Let’s get right down to it: Swedish pancakes are delightful. They are golden, buttery, chewy and thick enough to sink your teeth into, but thin enough to give you a signature Swedish pancake thin and lacy edge – like something between an American pancake and a French crepe. Topped with lingonberry jam and yogurt, or whipped cream, or just straight cream?

Ugh. I love them. This is my go-to recipe and method.

I grew up eating them, and I’ve always liked them, but wow. 2023 has been my Year of the Swedish Pancakes. We are just making them all the time right now.

They are chewy, light, tender and fluffy and bendy. There’s enough body to sink your teeth into but they still get that signature lacy edge. They are buttery, golden, rollable, stackable, and fillable. They’re delicious hot and steaming out of the pan; they’re also delicious as a cold snack straight out of the fridge.

I LOVE THEM.

They are also incredibly easy to make. As a breakfast OR as a dinner. Exhibit A: Bjork does not make dinner in our family – we have chosen those roles for ourselves and I am so happy to be the 99% of the time dinner-maker. But last month, on more than one occasion, I drove home from a weeknight event with the girls and called him on the way home and said:

“Hi, we’ll be home in 10 minutes and I didn’t make dinner. Can you blitz up some Swedish pancakes for us?”

And we arrived at home to 3 plates of Swedish pancakes ready to go. If he can do it, really, ANYONE can do it. Bless him.

These Swedish pancakes are breakfast; these are dinner. They are as much a holiday-breakfast-level treat as they are a roll-up snack that you take to the park with your kids (see picture). THESE DO IT ALL.

The TLDR is that we make these all the time.

It’s a Forever Files recipe for me!

I do this in a blender to get the eggs extra fluffed up.

Pour the batter into the pan, and immediately give it a slight tilt so the batter spreads wider to create a thinner edge. I recommend holding both the blender to pour, AND the handle of the pan at the same time so you can almost do this simultaneously.

If this stresses you out, you don’t have to do this at all – you could just fry up the Swedish pancakes as-is and they’d be a bit thicker around the edges and still delicious. The only reason for the slight pan tilt is that it creates that signature Swedish pancake thin and lacy edge that is delightful to eat!

This example photo is off-heat, but you can see the effect of a pan tilt here. This is generally what you’re looking for:

I like to go for a golden brown on the first side of my pancakes (1-2 minutes).

They are so thin that once the first side is cooked, you really only need 10-20 seconds on the back side.

Once they’re done, even sometimes while they’re still in the pan, I like to fold them into fourths.

PS. I spy a lacy edge! All from a little pan tilt!

I’m a firm believer in a jam + creamy element.

And I’m very strongly going to advocate for lingonberry jam! What are Swedish pancakes without lingonberry jam?! It’s the Swedish way! It’s SO good – sweet, but tart, with a really nice little bit of bitterness that just tastes right against the buttery golden goodness of the pancakes.

I grew up eating it this way and I can’t recommend it enough.

If you’re not a lingonberry jam lover, my runner-up would be blueberry jam (the Bonne Maman brand is outrageously good) with strawberry jam last coming in third. I normally love strawberry jam, but it’s giving more Toast or PB&J and less Swedish Pancakes to me. But I’m just saying this because this is my website. You do you.

I can also recommend the following combinations:

Swedish Pancakes

For Topping:

Thickness / Milk Amounts: I really enjoy a Swedish pancake that is more on the thicker side – something that’s thin and lacy but you can really get a satisfying bite with. Plus, the thicker they are, they easier they are to flip. The 1 1/2 cups of milk will get you my ideal ratio. That said, if you prefer them on the thinner side, 1 3/4 cup or even 2 cups of milk will still give you something a bit more papery.

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