Double Chocolate Pancakes
What makes a pancake a pancake and thus not a flapjack? To answer this most divisive of questions, I turned to the most obvious source of validation in the 21st century – instagram. For what is collective social definition if not a hashtag?
A quick search reveals that flapjacks have a rather mediocre 73 000 hashtags attached to their presence, while pancakes smash through the red ribbon with a blazing 4 800 000.
Right then, pancakes it is (even if I secretly call them flapjacks, because no decently raised South African would infer that anything other than a crepe with cinnamon, lemon juice and sugar is in fact a pancake).
These pancakes (oh but it pains me…flapcakes?) are the result of one of my usual recipes with a few odds and ends thrown in but what makes them double chocolate is the sauce, unashamedly cribbed from some wonderful health instagrammer whose handle I conveniently can’t remember. Shout out to the mystery person for a cracking chocolate dripping.
These are great as a healthy-ish dinner party dessert (ish because they’re not light in calories), but they’re actually even better as a decadent Saturday breakfast. However you enjoy them, note that this makes enough batter for 2 batches of 4 big guys, so try to restrain yourself from cooking it all up at once.
Double Chocolate Pancakes
Ingredients:
Pancakes
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 1 cup buckwheat flour (can sub with oat flour or other flour of choice)
- 1/4 cup cacao
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 chia egg (1 tbsp chia seeds soaked in 3-4 tbsp water for 10 minutes until a gel forms)
- 1 1/2 – 2 cups almond milk
- 2 tbsp agave or 2-3 tbsp coconut sugar
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tbsp tahini
Chocolate Sauce
- 1 tbsp tahini
- 1-2 tbsp agave
- 3 tbsp coconut oil
- 2-3 tbsp cacao
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions:
- Sift the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the wet ingredients excluding the chia egg. Add chia egg once combined.
- Add wet to dry and stir til lump free.
- Scoop into greased skillet and cook on one side til bubbles appear, then flip.
- In the meantime, combine chocolate sauce ingredients – melt the coco oil and honey so they blend easily.
- Pour chocolate sauce over pancakes and garnish with any combination of fresh fruit, nuts, seeds and whipped coconut cream.