Pancakes for Pancake Tuesday

So tomorrow is Pancake Tuesday which is celebrated all over the world. Pancakes are one of the things I really do not like. I hate.... actually scratch that I dislike greatly when my sister makes pancakes from pancake mix. I find there is no flavour in pancake mixes AT ALL. So I decided to make my own homemade pancake mix and add things in it to make it exciting. Here is my recipe for a new exciting way to eat pancakes! 

Kevin's Chocolately Cinnamon Baby Pancakes

Ingredients:
1 egg 
3 cup of milk
4 tablespoon melted butter
1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
1 cup of flour
1 tablespoon of sugar
3 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
About  3 cups of Chocolate chips
3 tablespoons of cinnamon powder 

Steps:
1. Whisk the eggs until fluffy and there is no separation of egg whites and egg yolk.

2. Whisk in your milk, butter, vanilla extract, cinnamon, salt, baking powder, and sugar into the eggs

3.  When it is fully incorporated slowly add in your flour. This is when you should feel a littttttttle bit of sweat coming. The mix should be a batter like consistency. It should be thick but ensure you aren't overmixing it! REMEMBER DO NOT ADD IN YOUR CHOCOLATE CHIPS AT THIS POINT!

4. Heat up a non stick pan. Some people say you should use cooking spray or butter however I feel when you use cooking spray you don't get nice colouring on your pancakes. With butter if you don't clean your pan after every pancake the butter could burn. So even though this is not typical, heat in some extra light tasting olive oil into the pan. Make sure the pan is evenly coated with olive oil. Remember you aren't deep frying the pancakes. You are just using the oil to ensure the pancakes do not stick but as well to ensure that there will be colouring on the bottom of the pancakes

5. Fill a laddle half way and pour into the center of the pan. Try to make the pancakes in the traditional pancake circle. I suggest using half a ladle because after all these are my baby pancakes. If you want a normal size pancake fill the ladle a bit more. This is the point where you add in your chocolate chips. Try to spread them out. Maybe put 6 chocolate chips per pancake. TIP: You'll know the pancakes are ready when there are bubbles coming to the top. When you see them coming to the top this is when you flip them. 
 
6. When the pancakes are ready (2-3 minutes in total) place them on a cooling rack.

Cut up some fresh fruits and arrange them nicely on a plate. I just placed some chopped strawberries on top of 3 pancakes and dusted it with icing sugar. Bananas would also work well because it's basically eating melted chocolate with bananas, how could you go wrong. 

After all your pancakes are done, you now have my permission to drizzle some Canadian maple syrup on top! 



Enjoy!

KMW

TIPS:
To make your life easier you could make the batter mix the night before then refrigerate it but the next morning just whisk it quickly to incorporate some air. Or you could make the pancakes the night before then refrigerate them when you cool them down then heat them in the same pan the next day just to make your life easier before you go to school or work!