I am in a chocolate mood.  I want rich chocolate, but it’s breakfast time; it would be wrong to have chocolate.  Not if you make a breakfast food.  How about a chocolate pancake,  but let’s add the stuff of German chocolate cake: pecans, coconut, caramel.   A side of bacon or sausage  and you’ve got yourself a winning breakfast or brunch dish.  I hope you like it. 

 

Dry ingredients:

1 3/4 cups  flour

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup cocoa

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon 

 

Wet ingredients:

2 cups milk

2 eggs, beaten

 

Topping:

15 ounces sweetened condensed milk

1 cup sweetened coconut

1 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 cup chopped pecans

 

In bowl, mix all dry ingredients..

 

Add egg and milk and mix until the mixture comes together.

 

In a sauce pan, cook condensed milk and brown sugar; boil for 5 minutes. 

Add coconut and mix.

Add pecans.

Add vanilla.

 

Heat griddle to medium.

 

Add batter to griddle.

 

Brown on each side.

 

Top pancakes with caramel sauce.