Pancakes with hot chocolate sauce

Ingredients


  • 125g plain flour
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
  • 1 egg
  • 300ml milk
  • 40g butter, melted
  • 250g small strawberries, quartered
  • 500g vanilla ice-cream
  • Chocolate shavings, to serve
  • 85g dark chocolate, broken into pieces
  • 1/2 cup (125ml) thick cream
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Description

  • 1.

    To make chocolate sauce, place chocolate in a bowl. Heat cream in a pan until to just boiling, pour over chocolate and stir until smooth. Stir in vanilla. Set aside.

  • 2.

    Sift flour and cocoa into a large bowl. Add egg and milk, beat well until there are no lumps. Brush base of a non-stick frypan with a little melted butter, add enough batter to just cover base and cook until pancake just lifts at the edges, flip and cook other side. Lay pancake on a sheet of baking paper. Repeat until all batter is used, brushing pan with butter when needed, and stacking pancakes with baking paper between each.

  • 3.

    To serve, fold 2 pancakes into quarters, placing scoops of ice-cream between folds of pancake, top with strawberries and drizzle with warm chocolate sauce. Finish with shaved chocolate. Repeat with remaining pancakes serving 2 per person.