Cocoa Flavoured Pancakes

Cocoa Flavored Pancakes

So it is a Saturday and it is a time where we usually love to have a nice breakfast to enjoy, and for me a nice breakfast would be to have nice and fluffy pancakes this once similar  to Macdonalds. I mean who does not like pancakes, it can be both a dessert and a breakfast!! But sadly there are no Macdonald near my house and I do not want to call for home delivery cause it can be pricey, so I decided to make my own!

I always wondered how Macdonalds get their pancake  to be so fluffy and somehow have a cakey texture to it, and all the recipes that I looked for online either said to use plain flour or all purpose flour but the texture of the pancakes never turned out the way I wanted it to. So I decided to try to use Cake flour and it worked! Finally a pancake with the texture I always wanted, now I can make it whenever I want as it can make good desserts too!! I hope you will enjoy it too.. :)

Ingredients:

1) Cake flour 1 cup

2) Baking powder 1 tsp

3) Cocoa Powder 1/2 cup (Omit if desire plain)

4) Salt 1/2 tsp

5) Sugar 2 tbsp

6) Milk 1 cup

7) Butter or margarine 2 tbsp (Melted)

8) Egg 1 (Separated) 

Makes 8 - 10 pancakes (Depends on the size)

Direction:

1. In a large mixing bowl put all the dry ingredients together, Cake flour, Baking powder, Cocoa powder, Sugar and Salt. Whisk slightly.

2. In another bowl combine Milk, melted Butter or Margarine and Egg yolk. lightly mix the mixture.

3. Pour the milk mixture into the dry ingredients and mix vigorously and quickly till well combined,  do not over mix. (lumpy mixture is fine)

5. Whisk the Egg whites till soft peaks form, then fold it into the pancake batter.

6. Heat non-stick pan with low heat, when pan is hot lightly oil the pan with 1/2 tsp of butter or margarine before proceeding to make the pancakes.

7.  Refer to picture for making pancakes.

Picture Guide:

 

1. Pancake batter should look something like this  after combining all the ingredients together, lumpy is fine.

 

2. Place the pancake batter in the pan like in the first picture (any size you want, but bear in mind the bigger the pancake the harder to flip), cook the pancake till the edges harden (1-2 min) then flip the pancake and cook for another ( 1-2 min). Repeat till you are out of batter!!

3. Enjoy the pancakes plain on its own or if you have a sweet tooth you can make this pancake into a dessert by adding a huge scoop of vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce!! ( I wanted to do that but sadly my home does not have any ice cream. ) :(

So yeah I hope you will enjoy this recipe the same as I do.