Chocolate Banana Pancakes with Whipped Black Cherry Cream

Hello Dear Reader,

I go to the hairdresser once a month for a hair cut and every second month for a cut and colour. I have very short hair, which I just love, but it does grow very quickly. I have been going to my hairdresser for many years, she is just a really great hair stylist and is a very wise, sensible and funny woman. There is no small talk on latest fashion or trends, it is always about food! She and her husband are very much foodies, my kind of people and we are always talking about the latest recipe we have tried or thinking of trying.

She doesn't have glossy fashion magazines, she is far too practical for those, but she does have the "Thats Life" magazines, not high end but very "real" and down to earth. I have found so many great recipes over the years, just by flipping through these mags while having my hair coloured (it takes a while to lighten my naturally, quite dark brown, hair) and this is where I found todays recipe.

When I read the recipe, I thought, genius, why haven't I thought of that one! Chocolate and Banana make great friends and I teamed it with some whipped cream with Black Cherry jam stirred through it. Think all the flavours of a Black Forest Cake in the form of a pancake! Simple and delicious.

Ingredients for Chocolate Banana Pancakes, clockwise from top right-1 cup SR flour, 2 teaspoons oil (I use Rice Bran oil for everything) 1 teaspoons baking powder, 1 egg, at room temperature, 1 mushy banana, mashed really well, 2 tablespoons cacao or cocoa, 1 cup of milk of choice and 1/4 cup caster sugar

Sift/sieve the flour, cacao/cocoa and baking powder into a medium bowl

And then whisk to combine

In a large jug, add the milk, egg and mashed banana

Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently mix to incorporate 

Cook in the usual way- I cook them on a medium heat in a non stick, heavy based frypan, brushed with a splash of oil and a little butter, spooning large dollops and then waiting for the bubbles to appear on the surface of the first side.

Then flip and cook for another minute 

I served ours with Whipped Black Cherry Cream

For the Whipped Black Cherry Cream, simply whip 250 ml of cream till soft peaks form then stir in about 1/4 cup of Black Cherry jam or any jam of choice.

There you go, thanks to my hairdresser and "Thats Life' magazine, todays recipe is a corker!

Have a lovely day,

💖Fi

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