Black Forest Pan-Cake (I Love Cake)
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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
  1. To make the pancakes
  2. Place all the ingredients into a blender and mix to make a smooth and airy batter (about 30 secs)
  3. Pour into a bowl
  4. Place your frying pan onto a medium to high heat and add some oil/frylight
  5. 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!
  6. 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!
  7. Place each pancake onto a piece of greaseproof paper
  8. Repeat until all the batter is used up
  9. Leave the pancakes to cool down completely
  10. To make the filling & topping
  11. Whip the cream until thick but not rigid - still a little movement
  12. Remove 2 tbsp into another bowl for later
  13. Add the cherry pie filling into the larger quantity of cream and stir through
  14. Place the chocolate into a microwave bowl and melt in the microwave at 30 sec intervals
  15. By now the pancakes should be cooled down
  16. Layer the pancakes with the cherry cream
  17. For top pancake, add the plain whipped cream
  18. Then drizzle the melted chocolate all over the top pancake - it doesn't matter if it goes over the side of the stack
  19. Then decorate with the cherries and the cake glitter (optional)
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2013/01/black-forest-pan-cake-i-love-cake.html