These Black Forest pancakes will taste just like a black forest cake! They’re cocoa pancakes layered with a cream cheese glaze melded with a strawberry purée and chocolate shavings.

Here is a layered Black Forest pancake that I'm sure you're going to love! These pancakes have got three amazing components that are layered that truly resemble the traditional Black Forest cake.

Black Forest is my all-time favourite cake, it would be my number one choice for a birthday cake! I’ve loved Black Forest cake ever since I can remember - it’s been my favourite for my entire life I’m sure! Back in India, I would love to go to bakeries and enjoy a slice of Black Forest cake. I simply adore the rich chocolate, the cream, and sweet cherries in the middle. It’s just a scrumptious combination!

Because I love Black Forest so much I wanted to incorporate this concept into some super tasty pancakes. I’ve made “birthday cake pancakes” with Extremely Fun & Fluffy Funfetti M&M Pancakes, but to me a Black Forest cake is a birthday cake! So this is like making my kind of birthday cake into a pancake! I hadn’t made a chocolate pancake in quite some time, but cocoa pancakes are always the ones I’m really looking forward to making when Pancake Sunday rolls along!

These Black Forest pancakes are layered with a rich cream cheese glaze and a strawberry purée. These two sauces in addition to some chocolate shavings all meld together in between each pancake to make a superb flavour combination. Be sure to try these pancakes for your next relaxing weekend treat and enjoy!

Making the Chocolate Pancakes

To achieve fluffy chocolate pancakes, we simply just need to add some cocoa powder to the regular pancake batter with oat flour, honey, vanilla extract, baking powder and an egg. The batter will have a mild cocoa flavour. I didn’t add any additional sweetener to the batter with the exception of the usual honey I use because the sweetness will come from the cream cheese glaze and strawberry purée, with extra shaved chocolate on top.

Be sure to whisk the dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately, then combine the two mixtures. Mix well, ensuring that there are no lumps in the batter. You want to form a thick and runny batter.

Cooking the Pancakes

Preheat the oven to 200 F. We’ll be transferring cooked pancakes onto a baking sheet and adding them to the oven so that they stay warm while the remaining pancakes cook.

Heat a pan on medium heat. Add some butter. When the pan is hot, use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to scoop out some batter. Your pancakes are ready to flip when you start seeing bubbles on the pancake. This will take about 1-2 minutes. Flip, cook on the other side, and cook for about another minute or so. When the pancake has finished cooking on the other side, use your spatula and transfer the pancake onto a baking tray. Put the tray in the oven to keep the pancake warm. Repeat with the remaining batter.

Making the Strawberry Purée

The topping here will be a strawberry purée combined with my classic cream cheese glaze. To make the strawberry purée, add the strawberries and a bit of water into a blender. Keep blending until the strawberries have been completely blended, and add water if necessary. If your purée is too thin, you can cook it in a pot and reduce the sauce until it reaches the consistency of a thick sauce. The strawberries have a lot of natural sweetness, so you won’t need any additional sugar.

Serving the Black Forest Pancakes

The final step is to grate some chocolate. You can use milk chocolate or dark chocolate, depending on your taste!

When all of the pancakes have finished cooking, put one on a plate. Spoon some of the cream cheese glaze, then the strawberry purée, then the chocolate shavings. Repeat until you’ve reached the top pancake. Serve immediately and enjoy!

Let me know what you think of this recipe in the comments! If you’ve tried this recipe, be sure to post it on social media and tag it with #cookingwithanadi and mention me @cookingwithanadi. Thank you!

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Yield: 6 pancakes

Author: Anadi

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Layered Black Forest Pancakes

A layered black forest pancake recipe that incorporates many elements of a tradition black forest cake. It is layered with a cream cheese glaze, a strawberry puree, and chocolate shavings for the ultimate treat.

Prep time: 16 MCook time: 10 MTotal time: 26 M

Ingredients:

For the pancakes

1 Cup all purpose flour or 1 3/4 Cups quick oats (160 g), blended into oat flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1 1/4 Cup water or milk
1 large egg
1 Tbsp honey
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp butter, for cooking

For the topping

1 x Classic Cream Cheese Glaze
1/2 cup strawberries
1 chopped square of baking milk or dark chocolate, for garnish

For the cream cheese glaze

5 oz cream cheese
3 Tbsp powdered sugar
3/4 Tbsp milk

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 200 F. Prepare the classic cream cheese glaze as described here.
In a large mixing bowl, add the flour/oat flour, cocoa powder and baking powder. In a separate bowl, mix together the wet ingredients - water/milk, egg, honey and the vanilla extract.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and begin whisking using either a whisk or a stand mixer, until you get a thick but runny pancake batter.
Heat a pan to medium heat and add some butter. Pour about 1/4 Cup of pancake batter. Cook for 2-3 minutes, until you start seeing bubbles at the surface.
Then, flip the pancake and cook for 1-2 minutes. After each pancake is done, transfer to a baking sheet in the oven to keep warm.
To make the quick strawberry purée, add the strawberries and just enough water to a blender, and blend until puréed. If your mixture has become too thin, you can reduce it by cooking it in a saucepan on medium heat until it reaches a thick sauce-like consistency.
When all the pancakes have cooked, place one pancake on a plate spread 1-2 Tbsp of cream cheese glaze, followed by the strawberry purée and some of the chocolate shavings. Stack on another pancake and repeat until you've coated the top pancake. Serve hot and enjoy :)