Recipe: Chocolate Pancakes with Chocolate Sauce

The best tasting cakes are usually super moist or made moist from sopping up sauce drizzled over it. I can’t help myself from dunking pieces of the cake into melted ice cream or scraping off the mixed pieces of cake and frosting. I found a quicker way of enjoying this. Here’s a recipe for Chocolate Pancakes with Chocolate Sauce to dunk. This is a perfect breakfast and dessert for anytime of day.

In less than an hour, I can indulge myself with moist chocolate pancake dunked in dark chocolate sauce. The key here is to use good chocolate, use the best kind you can find or afford. It makes a huge difference. Definitely serve the chocolate sauce warmed in a small bowl.

Recipe Adapted From: Lillian Chou, Gourmet.com
Yield: 4 Servings
Time: Total 45 minutes
Ingredients:
For sauce:
1 cup heavy cream
7 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), finely chopped

For griddle cakes:
1/2 cup Dutch-process unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 whole large eggs
1 large egg yolk
3/4 cup well-shaken buttermilk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
Unsalted butter for greasing griddle

Make sauce:
1. Bring cream to a boil in a 1-quart saucepan, then pour hot cream over chocolate in a bowl, gently whisking until smooth. Keep warm or at room temperature.

Make griddle cakes:
1. Sift together cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl, then whisk in eggs, yolk, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla until combined well.

2. Heat a griddle or nonstick skillet over moderately low heat and lightly coat with butter.

3. Working in batches of 2 or 3, pour 1/4 cup batter per cake onto hot griddle and cook until bubbles appear on surface, 1 to 2 minutes. Flip cakes with a large spatula and cook until tops spring back when pressed gently, about 1 minute. Transfer to a plate and loosely cover with foil to keep warm. Add 1/2 teaspoon butter to griddle between batches.

4. Serve cakes in stacks, topped with chocolate sauce.

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