Chocolate Pancakes
Looking for a breakfast recipe the kids will flip over? Look no further than these light, fluffy Chocolate Pancakes stuffed with chocolate chips. Top them with whipped cream, strawberries or chocolate sauce for the ultimate sweet treat.
If you love chocolate chip pancakes, then you’re going to obsess over these amazing chocolate pancakes! But just a fair warning, your kids will be asking for them non-stop once they taste how good they are. These fun pancakes are a must-have recipe and truly never get old. They’re fluffy, the perfect balance of sweetness and are so much fun to customize with toppings and add-ins.
Drizzle these fluffy pancakes in chocolate syrup for the most rich and fudgy breakfast. Once you learn how to make chocolate pancakes, you may never want to go back to regular pancakes. This recipe is just so yummy and is a really simple process too. Perfect pancakes, every time — and loaded with sugary sweet chocolate flavor. A kid’s breakfast DREAM!
Why You’ll Love these Chocolate Pancakes
- This a wonderful kid-friendly recipe. What kiddos wouldn’t enjoy a yummy chocolate pancake for breakfast! You’ll definitely get points in the cool mom department.
- You only need a half hour to make these amazing pancakes. You won’t make your morning extra busy when you include these in your breakfast routine.
- Chocolate pancakes are so easy to make that even your kids could make them! Turn to this recipe if you don’t know what to make for breakfast tomorrow morning.
Ingredients for Chocolate Pancakes
- All-purpose flour – All you need is basic all purpose flour to make a good pancake batter. Feel free to use gluten-free all purpose flour
- Milk – I like to use whole milk in my pancakes, but you can also use 2% milk or a dairy free option.
- Melted butter – Salted and unsalted butter will both work well in this recipe. If you use salted, then just omit the salt called for.
- Cocoa powder – Make a rich chocolate batter with some unsweetened cocoa powder.
- Baking powder – This acts as the rising agent to make the best fluffy texture for your pancakes.
- Salt – Balance out all the sweetness of these pancakes with a pinch of salt.
- White sugar – All pancakes taste a little better when the batter is slightly sweetened, I use basic white granulated sugar in this recipe.
- Egg – Allow the egg to come to room temperature before mixing it into the mixture so that it incorporates well.
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips – You can use milk chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips if you prefer.
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How to Make Chocolate Pancakes
Combine all of the dry ingredients and sift them into a large bowl. In another medium bowl beat the egg until and then add the milk and melted butter. Stir until just combined.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until moistened, do not overmix. At this point, if the batter is too thick add the remaining 1/4 c. of milk to the batter a little at a time until you reach the consistency you want.
Fold in chocolate chips and then let the batter rest for 5 minutes.
Heat a griddle or large skillet over medium-low heat and melt about ½ Tablespoon butter or cooking spray in a large non-stick skillet. Ladle the batter into a hot skillet making 3-4 pancakes.
Cook pancakes until bubbles form on top and then flip and brown the other side. Wipe out any excess butter with paper towels and repeat this process with remaining batter until all pancakes are made.
Serve with you favorite toppings and enjoy!
How to Store Leftover Chocolate Pancakes
Before storing leftover pancakes, make sure to cool them to room temperature. If you store them when they are still hot, it will create condensation in the container pancakes that will make them soggy.
REFRIGERATION: After the pancakes have cooled to room temperature you can wrap them in aluminum foil, transfer to a plastic zip top bag, or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Leftover pancakes will keep in the refrigerator for up to a week.
FREEZER: Before you store pancakes make sure you let them cool to room temperature. After they are cooled you can either store them in the refrigerator or in the freezer. Then you can either flash freeze the pancakes by placing them in a single layer on a baking sheet and freezing them for 1-2 hours then moving them to a freezer Ziploc bag or airtight container. Another way to store them in the freezer is in individual sandwich bags or by placing them in a gallon freezer storage bag and separating them by parchment paper to keep them from sticking together.
Toppings for Chocolate Pancakes
Once those pancakes are made, it’s time to serve them up with all of your favorite toppings to enhance those chocolate flavors. A few delicious options are:
- peanut butter
- caramel sauce
- strawberries
- blueberries
- whipped cream
- chopped walnuts
- maple syrup
- chocolate sauce
- strawberry sauce
- chopped pecans
- sprinkles
What to Serve with Chocolate Pancakes
Pair these chocolate chocolate chip pancakes with ham and cheese egg muffins, crock pot egg bake or other hearty protein.
You could also pair these with some sheet pan breakfast or crescent roll breakfast casserole. Breakfast crescent roll ring and bacon egg muffins also go great with these easy chocolate pancakes.
Pro Tips for the Best Chocolate Pancakes
- Don’t overmix the pancake batter or you could end up with pretty chewy and tough pancakes. Always pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and then mix carefully, a few lumps are ok.
- You can add other fillings, but don’t overload the batter. Some fresh berries, chopped nuts, sprinkles, extra chocolate and vanilla extract are great additions.
- Feel free to make these pancakes in smaller sizes for an extra kid-friendly breakfast! Mini pancakes are always a yummy option.
All you need is a few basic kitchen supplies, a griddle or skillet, and basic ingredients to make these easy chocolate pancakes. So yum!!
More Breakfast Recipes You’ll Love!
- These Air Fryer Cinnamon Roll Bites are another kid-friendly favorite and they’re a really simple recipe too!
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- Combine all the good about croissant and waffles in this fun Croffle recipe.
- Pancake Bites are fun and not only great for breakfast, but perfect for lunch and dinner dessert or snacks too!
Chocolate Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 ⅔ cups all-purpose flour
- ⅓ cup cocoa powder
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- 2 Tablespoons granulated white sugar
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1 ¼ cups milk
- 2 Tablespoons butter melted
- ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- additional butter for greasing pan about 3 Tbsp
Instructions
- Combine dry ingredients and sift in a bowl.
- In another bowl beat egg until light. Add 1 cup milk and melted butter to the bowl. Stir until just combined.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until moistened, do not overmix. At this point if it is too thick add the remaining 1/4 cup of milk to the batter a little at a time until you reach the consistency you want. Fold in chocolate chips and let rest for 5 minutes.
- Heat griddle or skillet over medium-low heat. Melt about ½ Tablespoon butter in a large non-stick skillet. Ladle the batter (about ¼ cup batter) into the skillet making 3-4 pancakes. Cook pancakes until bubbles form on top. Flip and brown the other side.
- Wipe out any excess butter with paper towels. Repeat with remaining batter
