Just because Halloween is on a school day doesn’t mean that you can’t add a little magic to your morning. Or that you need to set your alarm two hours early to labor over an over-the-top meal. These Strawberry Pancake Monsters are an easy Halloween breakfast you can whip up in less than 10 minutes (seriously, I timed it). Pair it with our Spooky Jack-O’-Lantern Marshmallow Milk, and you’ve got a surefire way to surprise and delight your family…without exhausting yourself before noon.

The Keys to Nailing These DIY Strawberry Pancake Monsters:

• Start with frozen mini pancakes. If you prefer homemade, whip them up the night before, place them between sheets of parchment paper and place in a resealable plastic bag in the fridge or freezer. (They’ll reheat in the microwave in 20-30 seconds.)
• If your kids aren’t into pistachio butter, try adding a few drops of green food coloring to peanut butter or the nut butter of your choice.
• For a faster shortcut, sub candy eyes for the mini marshmallows with mini chocolate chips. The latter option is tastier in my family’s opinion though. (The candy eyes often wind up in the trash in our house, but they are quick to toss on and look cute!)

How to Make Strawberry Pancake Monsters for Breakfast

Strawberry Pancake Monsters

These strawberry and pistachio butter mini pancake monsters make for a fun, easy Halloween breakfast you can whip up in minutes.

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Prep Time 9 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 minute min

Total Time 10 minutes mins

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Servings 1

Ingredients

  

• 6 frozen mini pancakes
• 2 tbsp pistachio butter (or nut butter with green food coloring)
• 3 strawberry slices
• 3 mini marshmallows
• 6 mini chocolate chips (plus more for monster "hair")

Instructions

 

• Slather a light layer of pistachio butter (or nut butter of your choice) onto all six pancakes. Warm in the microwave for 30 seconds, if pancakes are frozen.
• Top three pancakes with strawberry slices. Add remaining pancakes on top, pistachio-butter-coated-side-up (so it looks like a green monster head).
• Break each mini marshmallow in half and smoosh it with your fingers to flatten it. Stick a mini chocolate chip onto the cut-open part of the marshmallow (it'll be sticky and help the chocolate chip adhere to it). Stick the "eyes" on each monster.
• Add remaining chocolate chips as "hair" along the top of each monster, if desired. Serve as-is or with a drizzle of maple syrup.

Keyword brunch, halloween, holiday, pancakes