Chocolate Chip Pancakes | How To Make The Best Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Almost everyone loves a stack of fluffy pancakes with a drizzle of maple syrup or honey for a perfect and satisfying breakfast. With this easy chocolate chip pancakes recipe, you don’t have to wait to visit your favorite cafe to dig into these fluffy pancakes. Bring them home to your kitchen and let your senses wake up to the waft of fresh chocolate chip pancakes; a hearty breakfast is your sure shot bet to a great start of any day. Dig into the warm stack of these chocolate chip pancakes dripping with honey and maple syrup and allow it to work up the magic on your taste buds. This easy classic pancake recipe - jump to recipe - can be used in many ways with different add-ins, and we can bet that it will never fail to mesmerize you.

Pancakes might be synonymous with an American breakfast, but they have been eaten all over the world in different forms, tastes and shapes for many centuries. In fact, the obsession for pancakes is so big that many Christian countries even celebrate Pancake Day, the premise of which is to use all of the butter, milk and eggs before the period of Lent begins during which all this is forbidden.

How to make chocolate chip pancakes?

A chocolate chip pancake recipe cannot get simpler than this one here. This pancake recipe uses the basic ingredients from your pantry and the instructions are easy to follow. The recipe is so simple that you can even ask your little ones at home to lend a hand by mixing-up the batter for you every time you are making these pancakes or let them make their own mini chocolate chip pancakes.
 

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All the dry ingredients like the flour, castor sugar (or any powdered sugar), salt and baking powder are combined well in a large mixing bowl in the first step. Next step involves adding milk, beaten eggs and melted butter to the mixture. After whisking it lightly with a spatula, chocolate chips are then folded in. It’s important to leave the mixture to rest for 10 to 15 minutes. This allows the gluten protein in the flour to activate. The gluten bonds formed in this step provide the elasticity to the flour, so that when the pancake rises, the gluten helps the pancakes to retain their shape. To put it simply, allowing the batter to rest would result in fluffier pancakes.

As the next step in the recipe, to grill the pancakes, it is recommended to use any heavy base pan with non-stick coating, or a seasoned cast-iron pan would do just as well. The heavy base helps in uniform distribution of heat and reduce the chances of accidental burning of pancakes, or a crusty crumb. Now, a little butter is allowed to melt in a moderately heated pan in order to grease it before pouring in half a cup of batter. Spread the batter lightly with a spoon and let it cook on one side for a minute before flipping it over. The other side needs to sit in the pan for a minute before removing it from heat. Your perfect chocolate chip pancakes are ready.

Recipe variations and add-ins for our Chocolate Chip Pancakes Recipe:

For a gluten-free version you can experiment with millet flour using the same recipe. Those looking for healthy chocolate chip pancakes may use whole wheat flour but using all-purpose flour (maida) for this chocolate chip pancake recipe will give you the best results in terms of texture and taste. All-purpose flour pancakes are light, fluffy, and evenly cooked in contrast to any other flour which may yield flatter and grainy pancakes as whole grain lacks the binding that gluten provides in case of all-purpose flour.

To add some probiotics to the recipe, you may consider replacing the milk with buttermilk but that would definitely alter the taste, making the pancakes slightly tangy. The resulting pancakes will also be moist and tender. For a lactose free version, you can replace the milk with soy, coconut or any other nut milk.

This easy pancake recipe calls for chocolate chips to break the monotony and to add some pockets of dense flavour of chocolate to the pancake; but in case you have run out on chocolate chips or can’t get hold of any then fret not, and either skip them out or replace them with other add-ins of your choice like nuts or berries. You can experiment with various flavours like apple and cinnamon, vanilla and blueberry sauce, banana and chocolate chip, or the good-old-fashioned warm stack of vanilla pancakes with maple syrup. This classic pancake recipe works like a charm for all combinations and flavors.

How to serve and garnish chocolate chip pancakes?

Serve these pancakes stacked and topped with fruits like bananas or strawberries. You may want to dust them with finely powdered sugar or drizzle with maple syrup, golden syrup, or chocolate syrup. Alternatively, you can use honey or peanut butter and jelly. However, you choose to garnish or serve them, these choco-chip pancakes can be your favorite breakfast to wake up to, or you can also binge on them as an uncustomary dinner if you please. The best part of these pancakes is that the tantrums over food will be a thing of the past and the plates will be polished off before you know it. If your kids love pancakes, which they mostly do in all probability, then you can very well consider making mini chocolate chip pancakes for their carry meals because this pancake recipe is lunch box friendly as well. This simple chocolate chip pancake recipe is very adaptable, quick and super easy. So, treat yourself to this fare and experience the love and addiction for pancakes for yourself.