Chocolate and lemon curd pancakes.

We all love pancakes, don't we, but often we forget all about them until pancake day rolls around again.

I've been making a lot of pancakes recently, including the most amazing homemade fluff and chocolate pancakes.

Pancake Day

Pancake Day, which is also known as Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras falls 47 days before Easter Sunday. 

To save you counting back through your calendar with your finger, just do a quick google search for the correct date each year.

Shrove Tuesday is the day before Lent and traditionally it was the time to use up all your luxury products like butter and eggs before you give it all up for the lean days of lent. Pancakes were the perfect recipe to use up all the butter and eggs for that last treat and so Shrove Tuesday became known as pancake day.

Chocolate and Lemon Curd Pancakes

My final pancake recipe before Lent is Chocolate and Lemon Curd Pancakes. 

I used my favourite Scotch Pancakes recipe again, but this time I added cocoa, a bit extra sugar and less flour. 

They worked out really well. I think Cooper would have preferred them to be a bit sweeter, but I thought they were fine this way. Feel free to add a little more sugar if you wish.

I layered my chocolate pancakes with thickly whipped double cream swirled with lemon curd, but that wasn't enough lemon curd for me, so I drizzled some over my pancake stack as well.

Homemade Lemon Curd

It's always handy to have a jar of lemon curd in your store cupboard, but homemade lemon curd is so, so good and much nicer than jarred curd.

You could try my traditional lemon and nutmeg curd recipe or for an even quicker curd without all the stirring, try my blender lime curd. 

It's quick and frothy, as light as air but just as delicious as standard curd. My blender recipe is for lime curd, but you can swap the limes out and use lemons instead for an equally amazing recipe.

Pancake Crazy

Everyone is going pancake crazy just now, it's not just me? 

Go to any blog and you're bound to find pancakes.  Even the supermarkets are going pancake crazy. Apparently there will be approximately 117 million pancakes eaten on Pancake Day. 

WOW! 

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Yield: 12 pancakesAuthor: Jacqueline Meldrum with kind permission

Chocolate and Lemon Curd Pancakes

A simple recipe for chocolate pancakes. For a treat stack them up with lemon curd and whipped cream. Free printable recipe.

prep time: 10 minscook time: 10 minstotal time: 20 mins

ingredients

• 100g self raising flour
• 20g cocoa powder
• 40g caster sugar
• a pinch of salt
• 1 large egg
• 142 ml / ¼ pint milk
• 300ml double cream
• 6 tbsp lemon curd

instructions

1. Heat a non-stick frying pan on your gas or electric hob.
2. In a jug whisk together 1 large egg and half a cup of milk.
3. Sieve the flour and cocoa powder into a large bowl with the sugar and salt, pour in the egg mixture and whisk in until well combined.
4. Pour 1 tbsp of batter into the pan for each pancake. Use the back of your spoon to smooth it gently into a circle. Each pancake with take a couple of minutes, once they have a lot of bubbles over the surface, flip it. It only needs seconds on the other side to cook. 
5. Keep going until you have used all your batter, but don't try to cook too many at once, give them space in the pan.
6. Whip the cream until thick, then swirl some lemon curd through it.
7. Once they are a little cooler, stack the pancakes with a filling of cream between each layer. Top with a dollop of cream and drizzle curd from the top.
8. Tuck in and enjoy!

calories
171

fat (grams)
10.3

sat. fat (grams)
6.3

carbs (grams)
18.5

protein (grams)
2.6

sugar (grams)
9.5

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