TikTok’s 2-Ingredient Ice Cream Pancakes Make Cooking Your Favorite Breakfast Even Easier

For a while there, our TikTok feeds were full of cucumber recipes, and now we're seeing a new food trend that's perfect for breakfast this weekend: ice cream pancakes.

While it may sound like a new frozen treat, these pancakes are not meant to be eaten chilled. Instead, you enjoy them pretty similarly to how you’re used to making pancakes, just with fewer ingredients.

What Are Ice Cream Pancakes?

To make ice cream pancakes, all you need is some ice cream and self-rising flour. While making pancakes isn't necessarily difficult, this new version helps streamline the process even more. Ice cream already has many of the ingredients needed for pancake batter, such as sugar and milk, which comes in handy when you don’t have any pancake batter on-hand or the separate ingredients to make it. Plus, it’s a fun recipe hack to delight your family or guests.

TikTok user @SquashedPickled showed off this new recipe back in June, saying “I had a vision and it worked,” explaining that since “ice cream contains most of the ingredients we use for pancakes, I thought why not add some flour and see what happens!”

The finished result? “My mind is blown,” they said, confirming these pancakes “are better than any other pancake recipe I've tried!”

How to Make Ice Cream Pancakes

Making ice cream pancakes is super simple. Mix a cup of self-rising flour with a scoop of vanilla ice cream (you may need to add just a tiny bit of milk if the ice cream is too frozen, or let the ice cream soften a bit before mixing). The TikToker explains that it’s important to “mix it really well so it’s a soft batter” and easy to work with.

Fry up the pancakes as normal in a hot pan with some butter or oil, and “cook for few mins each side on medium heat” according to the TikToker. Within just a couple of minutes, you’ll have a plate of fluffy ice cream pancakes that are “So so good!”

Top these pancakes like you normally would with butter, maple syrup, fruit, powdered sugar, or your other favorite toppings.