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Chocolate pancakes on a plate drizzled with tahini maple syrup
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5 from 3 votes

Fluffy Chocolate Pancakes

These chocolate pancakes are enriched with tahini and are unbelievably fluffy and light. The perfect special weekend breakfast drizzled with a salted tahini maple syrup sauce.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Resting Time5 minutes
Total Time35 minutes
Course: Breakfast, Brunch, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 10 pancakes
Calories: 167kcal
Author: Sasha Hooper

Ingredients

Wet Ingredients

Dry ingredients

Mix-ins

Salted Tahini Maple Syrup

Instructions

Mix the wet ingredients

  • In a large bowl, whisk together the olive oil, tahini, sugar, egg and vanilla until smooth.
    1 tablespoon olive oil, ¼ cup tahini, 3 tablespoons soft brown sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Gradually add the milk, whisking until all the wet ingredient are mixed together.
    1 cup milk

Mix the batter

  • In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
    1 cup all purpose flour, 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, 2 teaspoons baking powder, ½ teaspoon salt
  • Add the dry ingredients to the wet and whisk until well combined but don’t over mix. Leave to rest 5 mins. Stir in the chocolate chips.
    ⅓ cup chocolate chips

Cooking the pancakes

  • Preheat your hot plate or frying pan over a medium heat whilst the batter rests. Turn it down to medium low a few minutes before the batter is ready.
  • Use a ¼ cup measure to scoop the mixture onto the preheated hot plate or pan.
  • Cook on medium low heat for 2 ½ mins until set at the edges and golden on the underside. You might see some bubbles on top of the pancake too. Flip and cook for another ten seconds.
  • Keep the pancakes warm in a low oven whilst using the rest of the batter to make all 10 pancakes.

Salted Tahini Maple Syrup

  • Add the tahini, maple syrup and salt to a small bowl. Whisk together until smooth and drizzle over the warm chocolate pancakes. Yum!
    2 tablespoons tahini, ¼ cup maple syrup, pinch of sea salt

Notes

  • Nutrition is for one pancake without the additional tahini maple syrup drizzle. 
  • The tahini maple syrup recipe yields about ⅓ cup - double if you like lots of syrup!
  • Preheat the griddle pan to ensure even cooking of your pancakes.

Nutrition

Serving: 1pancake | Calories: 167kcal | Carbohydrates: 21.4g | Protein: 4.6g | Fat: 8.1g | Saturated Fat: 2.6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2.6g | Cholesterol: 20.6mg | Sodium: 145mg | Potassium: 310.3mg | Fiber: 2.1g | Sugar: 8.3g | Vitamin A: 15.1IU | Calcium: 150.8mg | Iron: 1.6mg