Easy Chocolate Pancakes
These chocolate pancakes are extra fluffy and moist chocolate pancakes that are topped with a delicious chocolate ganache on top. These chocolate pancakes are every's chocolate lover's dream!
Ingredients
- 2 cups Flour
- 4 tablespoon Granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 2 Eggs
- ⅓ cup Cocoa powder
- 2 cups Buttermilk
- 2 teaspoon Baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon Kosher salt
For the chocolate ganache:
- 100 g Dark chocolate
- 100 g Heavy cream
Instructions
- In a big mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, cocoa powder, and mix with a whisk until combined.
- Add the buttermilk, vanilla extract, and eggs. Mix with a whisk until the pancake batter is just combined. (you can still see small pockets of flour).
- Melt ½ teaspoon of butter on a skillet or spray with oil spray over medium heat and cook each pancake until bubbles are formed on the top of the pancakes.
- Flip the pancake and cook for another minute on medium-low heat.
- Repeat with the rest of the pancake batter and set aside while you make the chocolate sauce for the pancakes.
- Melt dark chocolate and heavy cream in a small to medium mixing bowl in the microwave for about 50 seconds.
- Let the chocolate and the cream sit for 10 minutes for the chocolate to melt, then mix until the chocolate ganache is smooth and silky.
- Top the chocolate pancakes with the hot chocolate ganache and serve warm!
Notes
Use room temperature ingredients. It is important that you use room-temperature ingredients like eggs and butter. This step ensures that your mixture mixes into a homogenous mixture and bakes perfectly. you don’t want to place cold batter into the oven.
Don’t overmix the batter, you don’t want to develop the gluten in the flour. This step ensures you have moist and fluffy pancakes and not dense and dry pancakes.
Measure your flour correctly! When measuring your flour, avoid scooping it with a measuring cup. Instead, stir the flour with a spoon to create as many air pockets as possible, and spoon it into your measuring cup. Finally, level it with a back of a knife.
Sift your flour! sifting your flour is a very important step when baking and making pancakes. Use a fine-mesh sifter to sift out the flour. also, recommend sifting your cocoa powder. Cocoa powder tends to have big lumps, so we always sift the cocoa powder to make sure that there won’t be any cocoa lumps in the mixture.
Make sure that you are using fresh ingredients! One of the most common mistakes in baking and making cookies is not noticing that your baking powder or baking soda is expired. This can ruin your pancakes and waste your time and money on the ingredients. So every time you bake anything, make sure that the ingredients are not expired.
Before you start to make this recipe, measure and prepare your ingredients so the cooking process will go smoothly and easily.
Use the best quality semisweet or dark chocolate bars for the best flavor. using the best quality dark chocolate is very important in this recipe. The chocolate is what gives these chocolate pancakes the flavor so it’s very important to use high-quality dark chocolate.
Nutrition
Calories: 507kcalCarbohydrates: 66gProtein: 14gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 12gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 99mgSodium: 423mgPotassium: 458mgFiber: 6gSugar: 20gVitamin A: 555IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 257mgIron: 6mg
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