Chocolate pancakes with chocolate hazelnut spread

Chocolate pancakes with chocolate hazelnut spread

If you love chocolate and you love pancakes, you’ll definitely want to try these chocolate pancakes with chocolate hazelnut spread. They only take 15 mins to cook and this recipe should make about 8 pancakes depending on the size of your pan. The hazelnut flavours of the spread and the rich chocolate pancake work really well together – so well that you might think about having them for dessert instead of just on Pancake Day.

serves: 8
prep time: 20 mins
cooking time:15 mins
total time: 35 mins
skill level: easy
costs: cheap

Ingredients:

to make the pancake:

– 150g plain flour

– 2 tbsp cocoa powder

– pinch of salt

– 1 tsp ground cinnamon

– 2 med eggs

– 300ml milk

to make the spread:

– 60g toasted hazelnuts

– 2tbsp golden caster sugar

– 200ml single cream

– 200g bar dark chocolate

to serve:

strawberries or raspberries

OUR TIP: If you haven’t got any chocolate spread you could always drizzle your pancakes in melted chocolate instead

1) To make the pancakes: Whizz flour with cocoa, salt, cinnamon, eggs and milk. Chill for 1 hr if you have time. Make eight 20cm pancakes.

2) To make the spread: Blitz hazelnuts with caster sugar until fairly finely ground. Bring cream to almost to the boil in a pan. Take off the heat, add dark chocolate in pieces, stir to melt, and then stir in almost all of the nut mixture.

3) Fold the pancakes into cones on plates. Spoon some choccy hazelnut spread. Serve with strawberries, or raspberries, and sprinkle with the rest of the chopped nuts, and dust with icing sugar.