Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Pancakes
First and foremost, I want to say THANK YOU to everyone who entered my giveaway. It was so nice to see so many of you come out of the woodwork to respond. I had no idea so many of you had made and loved my recipes. It made my heart overflow again with love. I greatly appreciate your suggestions on which desserts to scale down next. There was an overwhelming majority for coconut cream pie, angel food cake, pecan pie, and tiramisu. I will get right to work on all of your requests! I have to confess that I’ve tried making angel food cake many times, and each time, my cupcakes shrink once they come out of the oven. Not pretty. In the meantime, I’ve been living on Jessica’s version.
I also want to say that many of you requested recipes that I already have on the site. So, please please please, check out my recipe index and your wish will be granted! Even for something you might not normally consider a dessert: corn muffins, biscuits, or banana bread, I already scaled those down for y’all. Enjoy!
And now, without further ado, I would like to announce the winner!
#39 is Tara W. Congratulations, Tara! I sent you an email. Respond quickly so I can get this to you before Valentine’s Day!
Ok, if you didn’t win, I think I have something to make you feel better. These chocolate pancakes complete with chocolate chips, strawberry sauce, and extra chocolate sauce will put a smile on anyone’s face.
- 6 ounces strawberries (fresh or frozen)
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- chocolate syrup for drizzling (optional)
- ¼ cup flour
- ¼ cup whole wheat pastry flour*
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- ½ cup milk
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted plus extra for greasing pan
- a handful chocolate chips (I used 24)
- Melt a small pat of butter on a griddle or non-stick skillet over low heat.
- In a small saucepan, combine the strawberries and maple syrup over low heat. Cook for 8-9 minutes, or until the strawberries break down and a thick syrup forms.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder, cocoa powder, and brown or sugar. In another small bowl, whisk together the milk, vanilla, egg yolk, and melted butter.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir to combine lightly, but be careful not to overmix.
- Once the griddle or skillet is hot, use a ¼ cup measure to scoop out batter to make 4 pancakes. Sprinkle the chocolate chips evenly over all 4 pancakes. As soon as bubbles appear, flip the pancakes and continue cooking until browned and done. Serve with the strawberry sauce and chocolate syrup.
What a delicious looking Valentines Day breakfast. I love how you used maple syrup instead of white sugar in the strawberry sauce.
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Wow. I’d love to dive into that stack!
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This has Valentine’s Day breakfast written all over it!
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oh.my.gosh. i’m so making these on V-day!
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These looook soooo amazing! Seriously!!
Will you come over and make these for me?
Please?
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WOW! Thanks for sharing, these look fantastic!
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First, these pancakes KILL me. I seriously died a second ago.
Second, how did I miss your giveaway!?!
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Yummy… Love day treat!
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Yum, these look lovely – perfect for Valentine’s Day, or to repeat on Shrove Tuesday! Looking forward to eating lots of pancakes this February
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Valentines is made for lots of lovely chocolate and strawberry food!
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I think these are my favorite of all the breakfast posts, love them!
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omggggg can these be my breakfast today?! suddenly eggs seem so less appealing.
thanks for linking my cupcakes.
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OHMYGOD! My uterus wants this for breakfast. Can’t remember the last time I had pancakes. Must fix that soon
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SO fun! What a great breakfast treat for V-day!
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Those are my kind of pancakes!
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I’m so gutted I missed your give away as part of my vague attempt to avoid sweets – BUT can I tell you anyway that I love your blog AND I made a version of your baked oatmeal with dried cherries and dark chocolate – it was AMAZING and I wish I had photographed it to blog about (with credit to you of course!). Sadly I was too greedy to wait.
Your lemon poppyseed granola is CALLING to me!
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Those are some great suggestions of things to scale down. And in the meantime loving these pancakes!
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nomonomomonoomomonomommmmmm.
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these look fabulous! love chocolate and strawberries, maybe i’ll make them this weekend for the hubbs. looks sooooooooo good! thanks girl and healthy too.
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At first I thought it was going to be Chocolate-Covered Strawberries, and then I saw Pancakes and was SUPER excited!!!
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MMMMM. Love how you used maple syrup for the strawberry sauce! Last time I had strawberry sauce on pancake/waffles was probably years ago at a denny’s/Ihop… and who knows what they put in there! Nothing real, I’m sure!
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Breakfast for dinner, I’ll take it anyday!
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What a great idea for a Valentine’s Day breakfast! Yum!
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mmm chocolate pancakes! i bet the strawberry put these over the top
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I will never eat at IHOP again.
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It never would have occurred to me to try to scale down Angel Food Cake. Maybe that’s because it is such a pain in the…well, you probably know…to make! (Love doing it though, I guess I’m either a masochist or I love the challenge) I will be interested to see what you come up with!
(I’m really excited about a smaller version of coconut cream pie, though. I’m probably going to have to find myself one of those 4 inch pie plates before then, just for that purpose…or maybe you should just move out to the super-awesome-always-warm-whatareyoutalkingaboutcold Chicago so we can just be best friends and next door neighbors. Kthanks.)
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Christina Reply:
February 11th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Hi Stephie,
Your wish for coconut cream pie will be granted next week!! Stay tuned!
I’ve never been to Chicago! I think my cowgirl boots & Texas drawl would embarrass you. Are you sure you want me there?
Christina
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These are a great Valentines day breakfast. Love the chocolate and strawberry combination.
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Oh my goodness…my kids would love these right now for breakfast and I will surprise them.love that you added some whole wheat pastry flour. I like to sneak some in to their breakfast. Yum!
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These pancakes scream love!
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I think, no I know I would have to triple the batch..amazing!
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I looove chocolate and strawberry combos! I need to try these soon!!
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