It feels quite dangerous that I now have the KNOWLEDGE to be able to whip up pancakes at any time. Flour, baking powder, a little sugar, some milk, an egg (optional) and BAM! Pancakes. Delicious fluffy, fluffy pancakes.
Yesterday, after I decided to have pancakes for lunch, I was gazing into my baking cupboard, wondering how to jazz them up for you my lovely blog readers. After all, I’ve already showed you how to make blueberry pancakes and apple and cinnamon pancakes too!
Then my eyes alighted upon the cocoa powder in my cupboard and I thought ‘Ah ha, CHOCOLATE pancakes’. Deelightful.
Here’s how to make them! First I made vanilla pancakes using a recipe that I adapted from BBC food.This amount of ingredients makes enough pancakes to feed two people (with fruit and whatnot) sensibly or one person generously.
- 135g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch salt
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
Mix those dry ingredients in a bowl and grab a measuring jug. Measure in
- 130ml milk
- 1 egg (optional, if you don’t have an egg you can leave it out altogether, or you could add in some natural yoghurt)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
and beat them together. Add to the dry ingredients and MIX.
I decided to make two vanilla pancakes before I added the cocoa powder, since I like variety, and also just in case I wasn’t too keen on the chocolate pancakes (I’d never had them before!).
Once I’d started my pale beauties sizziling in the pan, I added 1 tsp of cocoa powder (sieved – cocoa powder is awfully lumpy) into the remaining batter.
I was out of room in my pan so I cooked one massive chocolate pancake rather than two smaller ones. A shame as the vanilla ones are probably the roundest pancakes I’ve ever made!
I ate the fluffy vanilla pancakes first and then turned my attention to the chocolate pancake – it was delicious! Slightly denser but still fluffy and very chocolatey – it would be even more indulgent with a swirl of chocolate spread on top or some chocolate chips inside!
Ok I need your help – what kind of pancakes should I make next?!
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jimmie chew says
November 8, 2011 at 2:16 pmdo you know any cat food or treats recipes?
kerrycooks says
November 8, 2011 at 6:54 pmGood question! We stick to whiska’s food and treats but our cats love the occasional anchovy, bit of chicken or meat too. They also both love sweetcorn and marty loves all veggies too like tomatoes and courgettes! I don’t think anyone has told him that cats are carnivores!
There’s a lot of info on making your own food here
http://catinfo.org/?link=makingcatfood
xx
Emma @ Kitchen Goddess (in training!) says
November 7, 2011 at 8:26 pmMmmmmm chocolate pancakes! How has this idea never crossed my mind before! Maybe next you could try american style pancakes with scrambled eggs, bacon and syrup – I’m too scared to try it myself haha!