With cafes closed indefinitely during lockdown, creative home cooks are now making pancake cereal for breakfast.

The latest food craze has taken over Instagram and TikTok with many savvy amateur cooks sharing their own creations on both platforms.

It’s difficult to determine where the original idea originated, but on TikTok a number of videos have been shared demonstrating how to make the pancake cereal – one video has also exceeding more than a million views. 

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While in isolation home cooks are becoming creative with their meals and are now making pancake cereal for breakfast (pictured)

While in isolation home cooks are becoming creative with their meals and are now making pancake cereal for breakfast (pictured)

While in isolation home cooks are becoming creative with their meals and are now making pancake cereal for breakfast (pictured)

Online users shared their own creations with many adding m&m chocolate into the batter or later topping the pancake cereal with fruit

Online users shared their own creations with many adding m&m chocolate into the batter or later topping the pancake cereal with fruit

Online users shared their own creations with many adding m&m chocolate into the batter or later topping the pancake cereal with fruit

Rather than making multiple large pancakes, the process consists of cooking multiple tiny pancake droplets.

The recipe itself includes the same ingredients as a regular pancake recipe, but the method varies.

In most social media videos the pancake batter is poured into a squeeze bottle with a nozzle on top.

The bottle controls how much batter is poured into a hot pan at one given time and allows the pancake sizes to remain consistent and small – about the size of a 20 cent piece.

Rather than making multiple large pancakes, the process consists of cooking multiple tiny pancake droplets using a squeeze bottle with a nozzle on top

Rather than making multiple large pancakes, the process consists of cooking multiple tiny pancake droplets using a squeeze bottle with a nozzle on top

The recipe itself includes the same ingredients as a regular pancake recipe, but the method varies

The recipe itself includes the same ingredients as a regular pancake recipe, but the method varies

Rather than making multiple large pancakes, the process consists of cooking multiple tiny pancake droplets using a squeeze bottle with a nozzle on top

Social media users have shared their own creations online, with many adding m&m chocolate into the batter or later topping the pancake cereal with fruit.

‘It’s Saturday so I made mini pancake cereal with chocolate and banana,’ one home cook wrote on Instagram.

Others simply stuck to the classic maple syrup topping – which always goes well with pancakes.

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