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Chocolate Almond Pancake Balls

Mix your regular pancake batter, stir in chocolate morsels and toasted sliced almonds, spoon into a takoyaki pan and cook. These chocolate almond pancake balls can be served for breakfast, as a snack or dessert.

A stack of chocolate almond pancake balls drizzled with chocolate syrup and sprinkled with toasted almonds

It wasn’t my intention to make the stack of pancake balls look like a mini Christmas tree. I didn’t even notice that a slice of almond landed on the topmost ball in that position making it look like a Christmas tree topping. I was just aiming for height (a food photography technique I’m still trying to be better at) and that was what happened.

But, as the photos turned out, I realized what a perfect Christmas brunch dish these pancake balls would be. And the best thing is, if you’re feeding a crowd (if that’s advisable at all in 2021), you can cook a huge batch of pancake balls days in advance, cool and freeze them, and thaw and reheat them in the oven before serving.

Chocolate Almond Pancake Balls

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
Crisp on the outside, melted chocolate oozes out with every bite of these pancake balls. And, for contrast, you get crunch from the toasted almonds.
If serving for breakfast, you probably don't need to drizzle chocolate syrup over the pancake balls and sprinkle them with nuts. The pancake balls are already delicious by themselves.
But, if serving for brunch or dessert over the holidays, little extras won't hurt.
You may use an aebleskiver pan instead of a takoyaki pan but the pancake balls will be larger and flatter.
Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 15 mins
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine International
Servings 30 two-inch pancake balls
Chocolate almond pancake balls
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Equipment

  • Takoyaki pan

Ingredients
  

  • 1 recipe pancake batter (the link goes to my pancakes from scratch recipe)
  • ⅓ cup dark chocolate morsels you may use more
  • ⅓ cup toasted sliced almonds you may use more
  • oil to grease the pan

Instructions
 

  • Add the chocolate morsels and almonds to the pancake batter and stir until evenly distributed.
    Adding dark chocolate morsels and toasted sliced almonds to pancake batter
  • Lightly spray or brush the holes of a takoyaki pan with oil then set the pan on the stove over medium-low heat.
    Cooking pancakes in lightly oiled takoyaki pan
  • Using a tablespoon, fill the holes with the pancake-chocolate-almond mixture almost to the brim.
  • Cook for a minute or so until the bottoms and sides are firm.
  • Flip the pancake balls over and cook for another minute.
    Pancake balls cooked in takoyaki pan
  • Invert the cooked pancake balls on a plate and repeat the process until all the batter has been used up.
  • Serve the pancake balls while hot.
  • If serving as dessert, optionally drizzle with chocolate syrup and sprinkle with more toasted sliced almonds.
Keyword Almonds, Chocolate, Pancake
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