Scrambled Pancakes Are the New Breakfast Staple

13.07.2024 - 07:43 / bhg.com / Sharon Greenthal

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Pancakes seem straightforward, but we all have our preferences: You may like them fluffy and lightly buttered, or you prefer lots of melty chocolate chips and smothered in warm maple syrup. Whatever you gravitate toward, you always expect them to be served up in a round shape of sweet, tasty goodness. However, TikTok has a different idea—scrambled pancakes. 

Like the spaghetti pancake craze of 2023, when ribbons of pancake dough were piled high in bowls for a pasta-like presentation, scrambled pancakes have caused a bit of an uproar on social media. Even @archivedchef, whose scrambled pancakes tutorial has 21.2 million views and has been liked 891,000 times (and rising), confessed that she wasn’t crazy about the result—though she waited to let her fans know until the very end of her video (in her words, ”sike”). But, not surprisingly, pancake lovers who watched her make her creation had varying opinions. 

“This triggered me, but wait, I cut them up anyway, so why not try this?” one person wrote in the comments. And for the fans of well-done flapjacks, another said: “Omg, every bite is crispy. Are you kidding me….genius."

A few people mentioned that this recipe is easier to make than the pandemic-era pancake cereal trend, which requires dozens of tiny pancakes. However, the most informative comments referred to how these scrambled pancakes are a classic Austrian dish called Kaiserschmarrn, which translates to “imperial mess.” It’s a sweet-shop delicacy that's most often served sprinkled with powdered sugar and topped with rum-soaked raisins. On Reddit, one person said, “We in Slovenia call itSchmörn (ŠMORN).” 

Follow this recipe to make scrambled pancakes like Austrian chefs do.

Use white