The recipe for pancakes with cocoa is perfect for chocolate lovers. There are people who can't think of a single day without chocolate. Brownie cake, chocolate ice cream or truffles - it doesn't even sound like a dessert, but like music! This also includes chocolate pancakes, that is, pancakes for which cocoa powder is added to the dough. Such pancakes are obtained with a light brown tint, chocolate flavor and an incredible mouth-watering aroma!
The appearance of the first pancakes was recorded by historians as early as the 5th century BC. in ancient Egypt. Thin sour cakes, similar to pancakes, were prepared using starters of natural origin. But the most widespread pancakes were in Russia. Pancakes were baked for all holidays and important events throughout the year - pancakes were fed to a woman in labor and commemorated the dead, seeing off the winter and meeting the harvest time.
Today we will cook chocolate pancakes with milk and cocoa. The recipe is quite simple, so if you have baked pancakes at least once in your life, it will not be difficult at all. We add cocoa powder to the dough to give an appetizing color and chocolate flavor, and then we bake pancakes and invite the family for a delicious breakfast!
We prepare the ingredients for pancake dough, put them on the work surface
We combine eggs with sugar in a deep bowl
Combine sweet eggs, vegetable oil, vanillin, salt and sour cream in a bowl
We add half the norm of milk to the bowl to the dough
Add the sifted wheat flour and cocoa powder to the bowl with the dough
We add the second half of the milk to the bowl to the dough, mix again with a whisk
Leave the dough for 10-15 minutes on the proofing table
Pour a ladle of dough into a heated pancake pan and spread the dough along the bottom. Fry on one side for 1-1.5 minutes
We bake pancakes in a pan for 30-40 seconds on the other side
We put the pancakes one on one on a wide plate and grease the edges with butter
So a delicious and beautiful breakfast for the whole family is ready - pancakes with cocoa powder in milk. From the indicated number of products with a frying pan diameter of 24 cm, about 20-25 pieces are obtained
Pancakes are best served immediately, while they are warm. You can roll them into a triangle, pour over chocolate sauce or sour cream and decorate with fresh berries and mint leaves. Or wrap fruits (for example, fresh pears or bananas) or curd mass in them, cut pancakes into strips and mix with fruit yogurt - it all depends on your culinary imagination!
Pancakes are a fairly high-calorie dish. It is thanks to the increased content of carbohydrates that they saturate the body with energy for the whole day and give a quick feeling of satiety. Cocoa powder in the composition of chocolate pancakes gives the body melamine, which protects against ultraviolet radiation, normalizes hematopoiesis, and calms the nervous system. And thanks to serotonin and dopamine in cocoa, a person who has eaten such a pancake will be much happier than others).