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Chocolate Griddle Cakes with Chocolate Sauce

Source of Recipe


Gourmet, January 2004



List of Ingredients



• For Sauce:
  
• 1 cup heavy cream
  
• 7 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), finely chopped
  
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• For Griddle Cakes
  
• ½ cup Dutch-process unsweetened cocoa powder
  
• 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
  
• 1 cup sugar
  
• ½ tsp baking soda
  
• â…› tsp salt
  
• 2 whole large eggs
  
• 1 large egg yolk
  
• ¾ cup well-shaken buttermilk
  
• ¼ cup vegetable oil
  
• 1 tsp vanilla
  
• Unsalted butter for greasing griddle
  






Instructions



1. Make sauce:
   Bring cream to a boil in a 1-quart saucepan, then pour hot cream over chocolate in a bowl, gently whisking until smooth. Keep warm or at room temperature.
   
   
2. Make griddle cakes:
   Sift together cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl, then whisk in eggs, yolk, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla until combined well.
   
   
3. Heat a griddle or nonstick skillet over moderately low heat and lightly coat with butter.
   
   
4. Working in batches of two or three, pour ¼ cup batter per cake onto hot griddle and cook until bubbles appear on surface, 1 to 2 minutes. Flip cakes with a large spatula and cook until tops spring back when pressed gently, about 1 minute more. Transfer to a plate and loosely cover with foil to keep warm. Add ½ teaspoon butter to griddle between batches.
   
   
5. Serve cakes in stacks, topped with chocolate sauce.
   
   Makes 4 dessert or brunch servings