Pancake cake
This is no normal cake – it's all the things people love parcelled up in one big, beautiful bundle. Pancakes, chocolate, cream... delicious! It's quite unusual, but I say embrace it and you won't be sorry. You don't even need an oven, so it's great if you get caught out and have to rustle up something quickly. Best of all, it's forgiving – you can cover any lumps and bumps with the topping and it'll still look amazing.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 11 of 13 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Chocolate | 1 oz (28g) semisweet | 155 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Raspberry | 1 cup (123g) | 64 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Hazelnut | not in our table | 0 |
| Brazil Nut | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 3 cups self-raising flour
- 3 cups milk
- 3 large free-range eggs
- sea salt
- olive oil
- 150 g good-quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), smashed, plus extra to serve
- 50 g unsalted butter, cubed
- 180 g hazelnuts and Brazil nuts, toasted
- 600 ml double cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1½ tablespoons golden caster sugar
- 1 punnet fresh raspberries, to serve