Low Carb Cream Cheese Pancakes (10 Minutes, Vegetarian)
- Updated on May 18, 2015
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Hellooooo! I need to talk about pancakes one more time.
It’s the 2 Ingredient (!!) Cream Cheese Pancakes I need to shout about; another insanely good find I stumbled upon a couple of weeks ago.
Allow me to jump right in – they’re a brilliant breakfast for anybody who’s on a low-carb diet or just likes a light breakfast – one batch contains just 3g of carbs in a total of 388 calories.
On top of that they’re gluten free too! The food for all diets, it would seem.
You might have noticed we’re often chatting about recipes high in protein. Well, this is another one. There’s around 17g of protein in one serving.
Not quite as much as you’ll find in these Cottage Cheese Pancakes, but still an excellent amount, especially considering these cream cheese pancakes are so very light.
Cream cheese is one of my favorite ingredients – I’ve also made protein muffins with cream cheese!
The batter only takes a minute, either get a bowl and a fork and simply mix the eggs and cream cheese together, or chuck it all into a blender.
If you decide to blend: let the batter sit for a minute or two before you add it to the pan so that the bubbles can escape.
If you don’t, your pancake will probably fall apart, and you’ll curse and flame us in the comments. We don’t want that to happen. So, if you blend, let it sit!
Texture! I love the texture of these pancakes! You could call them a cross between tortillas and crepes.
Actually, they’d work perfectly in the stead of a wrap, as they’re very elastic.
Imagine that: instead of store bought, million-additive white wheat tortillas you can now make your favorite burritos with cream cheese pancakes!
Bujaaahh!! That’s what we’re talking about.
Health Benefits – Low Carb Cream Cheese Pancakes
Cream Cheese already earned it’s fair share of compliments in our previous post, so let’s focus on the other ingredient – eggs.
This recipe doesn’t just help with weight loss because of the low calorie and carb count, but also because eggs make you feel full for longer and so in turn you’re likely to eat less calories overall per day (1, 2).
Here’s the information from a study of 30 overweight women who were given eggs for breakfast instead of bagels.
They reported feeling more satisfied and full, which in turn made them eat fewer calories for the next 36 hours (3).
This small report isn’t exactly unassailable scientific proof, but it’s certainly food for thought.
Luckily the old myth that eggs are bad for your cholesterol is finally and officially debunked.
Even the experts on the committee that develop the US dietary guidelines now say there was “no appreciable relationship” between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol (4).
Good news all round, really. If eggs are sounding great to you, you should check out our other high protein egg ideas.
And what about the taste? Imagine them as a thin, warm cheese cake. Yep, sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?
So tell us:
- Do you eat breakfast at home or grab something en route?
- How seriously do you treat breakfast? Would you agree it’s the most important meal of the day?
- Do you have living (!) chickens at home?
- Do you prefer brown or white eggs?
- Where do you buy your eggs?
- When making your usual pancakes – of ten, how many turn out well and how many fall apart?
Ingredients
- ½ tbsp butter
- 2 eggs
- 3/5 cup cream cheese (3/5 cup = 2.5oz)
Instructions
- Add some butter to a pan and stick it on medium heat.
- Throw the cream cheese and eggs into a bowl and mix with a fork until creamy. If you’re planning to, now is the time to add some extras. But be careful! The batter is quite runny, so I wouldn’t add things like nuts.
- Alternatively you can use a hand blender, but remember to let the batter sit for a minute or two! It’ll cook better then.
- Off it goes into the pan. I usually make just one big pancake, but two medium-sized ones would also work perfectly fine.
- Enjoy!
NOTES
* 1 tsp of cinnamon
* 1 tbsp of protein powder
* 1 tbsp of small coconut flakes
* Vanilla extract Topping ideas:
* Honey
* Maple syrup
* Cherries, strawberries
* Sugar and lemon juice IF YOU LIKED THIS RECIPE: Then you definitely need to check out our famous 2 Ingredient Banana Egg Pancakes or the next big thing, our 3 Ingredient Cottage Cheese Pancakes. Both are exceptionally delicious. And if that’s still not enough, check out our MASSIVE roundup of healthy vegan pancakes!
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Great and easy recipe but I think your Macros are wayyy off. No way there can be 35g of carbs given that the 2 ingredients don’t have near that much individually. Maybe 3.5g? Same with the total fat. Maybe 30 rather than 3g? Not possible to have nearly 20 grams of saturated fat out of a total of 3g of fat. Tastes great though.
Meghan, you are absolutely right! This was a mistake on our side. We’ve been frugally updating our nutri cards the past two days and this one didn’t go through the double-checking process yet. It’s fixed, thanks a lot for pointing this out! And of course really great to hear you liked the recipe 🙂
I’ve just made these, I added cinnamon and vanilla extract to the batter mix and topped with melted butter. They were delicious!! Thank you for the recipie I will definitely be making these again. They did not have an eggy taste at all. I mixed my batter with a fork and I did find them hard to flip and they did break but I put this more down to my rubbish pan I definitely need a new one.
Hey Jo-Ann! Really glad you enjoyed it and your mods sound awesome! Love cinnamon and vanilla in pancakes. Yessss, a good pan is SO important. I recently bought a new one as the last one literally stuck itself to everything, and it makes such a difference! I don’t know know where you are, but I highly recommend the brand Berndes – I’ve only had good experiences with them so far :). I hope that helps! https://amzn.to/2ySyn1R
I’m really eggcited to try this recipe, (sorry, had to say it). Over 2 years and it’s still getting rave reviews! Giving 5 stars now because I know it’ll be awesome! Will be making this tomorrow!
Haha thanks Shay, I’m guilty of those jokes too 😉
I’m glad you came across our recipe, look forward to hearing how it goes!
Mascarpone instead if cream cheese works well too 🙂
That’s great to know Jo An, thanks! I’m quite partial to mascarpone myself 🙂
And that brings me to a joke. ‘What cheese do you use to hide a small horse?’
‘Mascarpone’
I’ll get my coat.
I tried this with a fork since I don’t have a blender. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but the cream cheese would not combine with the eggs to make it creamy. There is just chunks of cream cheese.
Hmm, I made those pancakes without a blender as well several times and it worked nicely. It surprises me that the cream cheese and eggs wouldn’t want to blend togehter? Do you think it would have been possible to mash the chunks a bit more? The batter definitely needs to be cream, otherwise you’ll get an omelette with cream cheese chunks 🙂
Better results when I whip the cream cheese before adding the beaten eggs.
How simple is it to double or triple the recipe? I’d like to make a large batch and then cook a few sweet and savory styles for meal options. Some with cinnamon and maple flavoring for breakfast/desserts , some with veggies and cheese for lunches and dinners. Sounds delightful. Much easier than the baked cloud bread out there that is overpowering in egg smell and flavor.
Hi Darby! I just updated the recipe for you. Now you can easily change servings and the ingredients will adapt accordingly 🙂
Yeess, it’s a great recipe. Super easy and versatile! Hope you’ll like it.
Haven’t tried these but LOVE that you can change the servings and the ingredients automatically change. THANKS for that.
Hey Barb! Really glad you like it! We were really pleased when we were able to implement it onto the blog. Makes things so much easier!
I’m not one for writing reviews but in this case I felt I had to !!! These bad boys are amazing, a little more delicate than flour pancakes ( particularly to flip) but they taste amazing. Did try to make a batch for me but unfortunately I couldn’t get more that one on the plate befor I ate it !!! Will be making these often as I’ve really missed pancakes since being on a low carb diet. Thanks sooooo much, love, love love them xx
I concur!! These are amazing!!,I added peanut butter when they were done and they looked like little pancake/crêpe taquitos!