pancakes with chocolate sauce

well what is better than a bedtime treat? i know that we all wish we could raid our fridges for a midnight snack the way that nigella does - unfortunately for most of us, we just don't have such exciting things hiding in our refrigerators waiting for it to be discovered :( in my case, my brother and i believe that when you want something it really doesn't matter what time of the day it is, make it and enjoy it! what is more liberating than a full breakfast at 2am on a whim? we like to break the rules:)

so tonight on a whim we decided to make pancakes (and the chocolate sauce happened by a chance finding of a bar of dark chocolate lying in the fridge) after watching "jamie's american road trip" on bbc lifestyle. it was fantastic as i did very little. pancakes are my brother's piece de resistance you see. he likes to bake, and he's better at it than i am purely based on the fact that i am fearful about baking and he's fearless. i just am so paranoid something will go wrong when i bake but he just throws it together and it works.

so here's mahesh's pancake recipe and my chocolate sauce :)

MAHESH'S PANCAKES with chocolate sauce

INGREDIENTS:

• 300g of flour
• 600 ml milk
• half a teaspoon of baking powder
• a tablespoon of melted butter

mahesh mixing in the melted butter

METHOD:

• mix all your ingredients together (add more flour and milk if needed to get your desired consistency - that always seems to happen with pancake recipes)
• ladle in portions of the pancake batter into a pancake pan with a swipe of butter.
• flip and remove when light brown.

flipping it like a pro:)

For the Chocolate Sauce:

• in a saucepan melt a bar of dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids) with butter.
• when melted remove from the heat and stir in two tablespoons of castor sugar.
• let it dissolve and you're ready :)

serve with the chocolate sauce drizzled over and a dusting of cinnamon.

such a delicious treat and oh so satisfying when you're in need of a little pick me up or just for fun :))