Mini Chocolate Pancakes
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 75 g chocolate
- 100 g self-raising flour
- 15 g cocoa
- 2.46 ml baking powder
- 14.79 ml caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 200 ml milk
- butter, to fry
- 59.16 ml sour cream, reduced fat is fine, to serve
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The Cherry Sauce
- 450 g canned sour cherries, in syrup
- 14.79 ml cornflour
- 44.37 ml vodka
directions
- Roughly chop the chocolate, and sift together the flour, cocoa and baking powder and stir in the sugar.
- Make a well in the centre of the mixture and beat in the egg, then gradually stir in the milk, to make a thick batter. Once the batter ingredients are well-combined, stir in the chocolate.
- Melt a little butter in a large non-stick pan and add spoonfuls of the batter, spacing them well apart. Cook for 2-3 minutes on each side, or until they start to brown. Transfer the cooked pancakes to a warm plate, and keep warm while you complete making the rest of the pancakes. Clean the pan with paper towelling.
- The Cherry Sauce: Drain the cherries and pour the syrup into the pan, mix cornflour with a little cold water to make a thin paste, and once it is smooth, pour this into the pan with the syrup. Stir the sauce continuously over a low heat until it thickens. Stir in the vodka, remove the pan from the heat and stir in the cherries.
- Serve the pancakes with spoonfuls of the cherry sauce and sour cream.
- Alternatives: If you cannot find sour cherries, use Morello or black cherries which are sold in cans or jars. Use any liqueur in place of the vodka, or white wine, or a fruit juice. And use yoghurt rather than sour cream. Or custard. I have in one of my cookbooks a microwave custard recipe, which I have yet to try, but it sounds good! Jen T's Microwaved 'baked' Egg Custard Recipe #31215.
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Reviews
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I didn't rate it, because I'm sorry to say I found them disgusting( them being one as I threw the rest of the batter away). Tasted just like a mixture of flour, and cocoa when you don't add any sugar to it - hence i found them quite bitter and inedible. I have made regular pancakes numerous times, however the problems I encountered could be my fault entirely.
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