I was recently asked if I would like to create a pancake recipe to appear on Good To Know for a ‘pimp my pancake’ feature which they are holding to co-incide with Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day.
I remember watching a Jamie Oliver cookery programme last year (I think!) where he made a stack of pancakes and layered them with cream and chocolate and made a kind of pancake cake. I have wanted an excuse to re-create something like this myself ever since, and now I have been given the ideal opportunity.
The idea for my Black Forest Pan-Cake comes from a couple of things. One is that when I was a child I used to often visit the Little Chef restaurants and my favourite dessert on their menu was the pancakes filled with cherries and ice cream. Also, I have been wondering for ages if a chocolate pancake could be made by adding cocoa powder in place of some of the flour. Then I just thought after the invitation to design a pancake recipe came through, that a black forest style pancake layer cake could work and taste rather yummy!
It is and here is how I made it
Black Forest Pan-Cake (I Love Cake)
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Author: Jenny Paulin
Serves: 10
Ingredients
- For the pancakes (makes 8 american style so thicker than crepes)
- 1¾ mugs of self raising flour, sifted
- ¼ mug of cocoa powder* , sifted
- 2 mugs of milk
- 2 eggs
- pinch of salt
- Frylight
- (you can use oil but I found this works well as a couple of sprays of the pan for each pancake worked well)
- * I used cocoa powder as opposed to drinking chocolate which meant my pancakes were not very sweet. If you are making this for children and those with a sweeter tooth, use drinking chocolate powder instead or add a little less flour and add some icing sugar to the mix to make the pancake batter sweeter.
- Ingredients
- For the filling
- 600ml double cream
- 1 tin of red cherry fruit filling
- 50g milk chocolate
- 50g plain chocolate
- 6 cherries (decoration)
- edible cake glitter in white
Instructions
- To make the pancakes
- Place all the ingredients into a blender and mix to make a smooth and airy batter (about 30 secs)
- Pour into a bowl
- Place your frying pan onto a medium to high heat and add some oil/frylight
- Once oil starts to move away from the sides of pan, pour in a ladle full of batter and swirl pan quickly to make a circle shape - if you are like me the first couple of pancakes never look as good but with this pan-cake it doesn't matter because it will all be covered!
- Flip pancake or use a fish slice if you are not confident enough, once the pancake starts to cook around the circumference and cook until browned. With these chocolate pancakes, dark brown!
- Place each pancake onto a piece of greaseproof paper
- Repeat until all the batter is used up
- Leave the pancakes to cool down completely
- To make the filling & topping
- Whip the cream until thick but not rigid - still a little movement
- Remove 2 tbsp into another bowl for later
- Add the cherry pie filling into the larger quantity of cream and stir through
- Place the chocolate into a microwave bowl and melt in the microwave at 30 sec intervals
- By now the pancakes should be cooled down
- Layer the pancakes with the cherry cream
- For top pancake, add the plain whipped cream
- Then drizzle the melted chocolate all over the top pancake - it doesn't matter if it goes over the side of the stack
- Then decorate with the cherries and the cake glitter (optional)
It’s flipping delicious!!
NOW ITS YOUR TURN
Please link up any cakes or baking creations you have made recently – anything goes as long as it is edible and yummy!!
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Let the cake love fest begin 🙂
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I wouldn’t want a slice of that……I would want to eat the whole thing! I love pancakes. We’ve made chocolate ones with a topping of Nutella before. Uber chocolatey and soooo yummy xx
That is some pancake Jenny! I dread to think of the calorie content in that. I do prefer American pancakes to the crepe type, so many more possibilities!
x
The SW cake I was about to make now looks a lot less appetising! 😉
OMG that photo just made my jaw drop! I have to do a pancake post for Center Parcs and had some ideas, but this has blown me out of the water!!!
Wow that looks amazing!
Oh my god – that made my mouth water!! I love cake especially with fresh cream in it!
That looks everso slightly wicked Jenny P!
This looks amazing, ooh i need a piece now 🙂 yummy ….
That looks incredible! Wow!
Now that looks so good, oozing with yummy cream!
Sorry looks like my comment did not come through yesterday arr. internet explorer!!
This looks amazing, I need to try this… so yummy 🙂
Oh my good gosh O.O Black forest is such a childhood fave, and we have pancakes almost every weekend … looks like I know what I’ll be cooking tomorrow 😀
Oh my. That looks so gorgeous – I need it now 😉
Thanks for linking up last week to #CookitBlogit.
That looks UTTERLY delicious. I’m rubbish at making pancakes… can I just come to yours and you cook it for me? lol Thanks again for linking up to #CookitBlogit xx
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! Isn’t that illegal or something?!?!?! Amazing. Pinned and stumbled. Thanks for linking up to #recipeoftheweek x
That looks very yummy and very different to the bananas, strawberries and ice cream ones I make. Yum yum.
That looks DELICIOUS!
Wow, that looks amazing.