Chocolate-Pecan Pancakes

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Prep Time:
35 mins
Total Time:
35 mins
Servings:
4

Surprise everyone at the dinner table with a stack of fluffy chocolate pancakes for dessert; they're especially good drizzled with hot fudge sauce.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled)

  • cup granulated sugar

  • cup Dutch-process cocoa powder

  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

  • ¼ teaspoon salt

  • 1 cup milk

  • 1 large egg

  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • ½ cup mini chocolate chips

  • ¼ cup chopped pecans

  • 4 tablespoons vegetable oil

  • Confectioners' sugar (optional)

  • Hot fudge sauce (optional)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 225 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, granulated sugar, cocoa, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, whisk together milk, egg, melted butter, and vanilla; pour over flour mixture, whisking to combine. Fold in chocolate chips and pecans; let batter stand until slightly thickened, 5 to 10 minutes.

  2. In a large nonstick skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat until a water droplet sizzles; swirl to coat bottom of pan with oil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Spoon four small mounds (1 heaping tablespoon each) of batter into skillet. Cook until bubbles appear in center, 3 to 4 minutes. With a thin spatula, flip pancakes; continue cooking until set, 3 to 4 minutes more.

  3. Transfer to a baking sheet; cover loosely with foil; place in oven to keep warm. Repeat with remaining oil and batter in three more batches (adjust heat as necessary to avoid overbrowning).

  4. Stack 4 pancakes on each plate, sprinkling each layer with confectioners' sugar, if desired. Serve immediately, drizzled with hot fudge sauce, if desired.

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