The pancake graph Pn is the Cayley graph of the symmetric group Sn on n elements generated by prefix reversals. Pn has been shown to have properties that makes it a useful network scheme for parallel processors. For example, it is (n − 1)-regular, vertex-transitive, and one can embed cycles in it of length ℓ with 6 ≤ ℓ ≤ n!. The burnt pancake graph BPn, which is the Cayley graph of the group of signed permutations Bn using prefix reversals as generators, has similar properties. Indeed, BPn is n-regular and vertextransitive. In this paper, we show that BPn has every cycle of length ℓ with 8 ≤ ℓ ≤ 2 n n!. The proof given is a constructive one that utilizes the recursive structure of BPn.We also present a complete characterization of all the 8-cycles in BPn for n ≥ 2, which are the smallest cycles embeddable in BPn, by presenting their canonical forms as products of the prefix reversal generators.