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No breakfast is complete without pancakes. But when you're cooking a meal with many ingredients or for many people, it can be a challenge to keep your pancakes warm before they hit the table. If you don't plan to serve your pancakes straight off the griddle, but you don't want them to grow cold, you can warm them in a conventional or toaster oven at a low temperature, using parchment paper or a cooling rack to maintain texture and shape.
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Method 1 Method 1 of 3:
Stacking with Greaseproof Paper
1 Preheat your oven to 200 °F (93 °C). Traditionally, pancakes are made on a griddle, so you won't use your oven to actually bake your pancakes. Instead, you can use it to keep already-cooked pancakes warm. 200 °F (93 °C) is an ideal oven temperature for keeping pancakes warm without cooking them further.[1]XResearch source
If you're simultaneously prepping other breakfast foods, i.e., bacon or eggs, fry them on the stove rather than baking them in the oven. This leaves your oven free for warming pancakes.
2 Place a baking sheet on your oven's center rack. The baking sheet will protect your pancakes from slipping through the bars of the oven rack, while also preventing the bottoms of the cakes from being charred. Advertisement
3 Stack the pancakes in the oven with greaseproof paper. As you finish cooking each pancake on the griddle, place it onto the baking sheet in the oven, adding a square of greaseproof paper in between each cake in the stack.
Greaseproof paper (sometimes also called parchment paper) helps keep pancakes from sticking to each other as they stack. Without parchment paper, your pancakes will not maintain their individual shapes and textures and will also be more difficult to serve.[2]XResearch source
4 Leave your pancakes in the oven until you are ready to serve them. While an oven at 200 °F (93 °C) will keep your pancakes warm until you're ready to serve them, you shouldn't leave your pancakes in the oven for longer than it takes you to finish cooking the meal. For a maximum of 1 hour they will stay warm without overcooking, but any longer and they might dry out or burn.[3]XResearch source Advertisement
Method 2 Method 2 of 3:
Combining a Cooling Rack with a Baking Sheet
1 Preheat your oven to 225 °F (107 °C). You will not be baking your pancakes in the oven, but at 225 °F (107 °C) the pre-cooked pancakes will stay warm without overcooking. Every oven is different, and you may want to adjust this temperature by roughly 25 °F (−4 °C) up or down depending on your oven's strength.[4]XResearch source
2 Place a cooling rack inside a baking sheet. Set the duo onto the center rack of your oven as it preheats. The cooling rack and the baking sheet work together to keep your pancakes intact: the rack, slightly raised over the sheet, allows for proper air circulation in the oven so your pancakes remain fluffy and wispy around the edges rather than soggy and squashed.[5]XResearch source
Ideally both the oven and the rack will be warm by the time you load them up with pancakes, so perform this step before you even begin prepping the batter.
For extra large batches, place a second cooling rack/baking sheet duo on the lower rack of the oven and use it once the first rack is full.
3 Move the cooked pancakes from the griddle into the oven without stacking them. When you transfer your pancakes from the stove to the oven, situate them side-by-side, not one atop the other, on the cooling rack. Arranging them in a single layer encourages air-flow and helps maintain their shape.
While stacking keeps your pancakes warm just as well as the single layer method, some chefs say it ruins the pancakes' texture.[6]XResearch source Stacking steams and compresses the pancakes, whereas air circulation keeps them light and fluffy.
4 Remove the pancakes from the oven when you're ready to serve them. Try not to leave them in the oven longer than it takes you to finish cooking the meal, as this may dry them out or char them. Advertisement
Method 3 Method 3 of 3:
Using a Toaster Oven
1 Preheat your toaster oven to 150 to 200 °F (66 to 93 °C). Toaster ovens cook food about 30% faster than conventional ovens, so it's recommended that you lower your toaster oven's temperature to about 25 °F (−4 °C) less than if you were using a conventional oven. While you can use your toaster oven at higher temperatures to bake pancakes from scratch, 150 to 200 °F (66 to 93 °C) is good for warming already-cooked pancakes without burning them.[7]XResearch source
If your toaster oven is a convection oven, turn off the convection setting if you can -- unlike regular ovens, convection ovens have fans which may cause your pancakes to dry out. If you can't turn off convection, lower your toaster oven's temperature by an additional 25 °F (−4 °C) (for example, from 150 °F (66 °C) to 125 °F (52 °C)).[8]XResearch source
2 Place an empty baking sheet on the center rack. Most toaster ovens come with size-appropriate baking sheets. Let the baking sheet sit in the toaster oven as it preheats so that the sheet itself will be warm when you lay the first pancake on it.
3 Transfer finished pancakes from the griddle to the toaster oven. For best results, lay pancakes in a single layer on the baking sheet so that they don't flatten in a pile.[9]XResearch source
Toaster ovens are smaller than regular ovens, so you may not be able to keep as many pancakes warm as you would in a conventional oven. You can fit about six pancakes in a toaster oven without stacking, making toaster ovens great for smaller batches.[10]XResearch source If you want to use the toaster oven to keep a larger batch warm, you may opt to stack the pancakes one on top another in the toaster oven with sheets of parchment paper in between each cake.
4 Take the pancakes out of the toaster oven when you're ready to serve them. Try not to leave the pancakes in the oven for too long — about 40 minutes max. Make sure to use an oven mitt when removing the baking sheet and turn off the toaster oven when you're done. Advertisement
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To maintain maximum texture, don't wrap your pancakes in foil and don't stack them as they warm. Instead, place them in a single layer on a raised platform in the oven.[11]XResearch sourceThanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0
For large and complicated meals, use the toaster oven method. If your breakfast has several components, the toaster oven can warm your pancakes while you put the conventional oven to other use. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0
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1 Preheat your oven to 200 °F (93 °C). Traditionally, pancakes are made on a griddle, so you won't use your oven to actually bake your pancakes. Instead, you can use it to keep already-cooked pancakes warm. 200 °F (93 °C) is an ideal oven temperature for keeping pancakes warm without cooking them further.[1] 
2 Place a baking sheet on your oven's center rack. The baking sheet will protect your pancakes from slipping through the bars of the oven rack, while also preventing the bottoms of the cakes from being charred. Advertisement 
1 Preheat your oven to 225 °F (107 °C). You will not be baking your pancakes in the oven, but at 225 °F (107 °C) the pre-cooked pancakes will stay warm without overcooking. Every oven is different, and you may want to adjust this temperature by roughly 25 °F (−4 °C) up or down depending on your oven's strength.[4] 
4 Remove the pancakes from the oven when you're ready to serve them. Try not to leave them in the oven longer than it takes you to finish cooking the meal, as this may dry them out or char them. Advertisement 
1 Preheat your toaster oven to 150 to 200 °F (66 to 93 °C). Toaster ovens cook food about 30% faster than conventional ovens, so it's recommended that you lower your toaster oven's temperature to about 25 °F (−4 °C) less than if you were using a conventional oven. While you can use your toaster oven at higher temperatures to bake pancakes from scratch, 150 to 200 °F (66 to 93 °C) is good for warming already-cooked pancakes without burning them.[7] 
3 Transfer finished pancakes from the griddle to the toaster oven. For best results, lay pancakes in a single layer on the baking sheet so that they don't flatten in a pile.[9] 
4 Take the pancakes out of the toaster oven when you're ready to serve them. Try not to leave the pancakes in the oven for too long — about 40 minutes max. Make sure to use an oven mitt when removing the baking sheet and turn off the toaster oven when you're done. Advertisement