How to Celebrate Maslenitsa? 10 Unique Chocolate Pancake Recipes for Chocoholics

On Maslenitsa or Maslyana, it is customary to prepare pancakes with a variety of fillings. And we could not stay away, so we offer you several of our Millennium recipes for true chocoholics and chocoholics - pancakes with cocoa and chocolate.

Maslenitsa, Maslenitsa, Kolodiy, Syropust, Cheese Week… Whatever the name in Ukraine is for the week preceding Great Lent. But the traditions are still similar – it is a farewell to winter, a welcome to spring, a greeting to the sun, which warms us more and more every day. Of course, all this happens with family feasts with delicacies. And what can you not see on those tables? Sunny pancakes, golden pancakes, sweet cheesecakes, and even fluffy dumplings with a variety of fillings. Mmm… Yummy! It is not surprising that this holiday is loved by both children and adults.

If you love chocolate as much as we do, you'll definitely want to try making pancakes using a few new recipes from Millennium that feature chocolate and cocoa. And don't forget to write down these chocolate pancake recipes, because we guarantee that your family and guests will want to make them again, and not just during Shrove Tuesday.

1. Recipe for chocolate pancakes with cocoa and milk for Maslenitsa

These pancakes will turn out a beautiful chocolate color. They go great with sweet fillings, and you can also eat them just like that, without anything, and enjoy the incredible taste of chocolate.

Ingredients for chocolate pancakes with cocoa and milk:

• Eggs – 2 medium-sized ones;
• Sugar – 2 tablespoons;
• Salt – 1 pinch;
• Milk – 0.5 l;
• Cocoa powder "CHOCOLATIER" natural dark – 2 tablespoons;
• Flour - 2/3 cup;
• Sunflower oil – 2 tablespoons.

Step-by-step preparation of chocolate pancakes with milk:

1. Beat the eggs, salt, and sugar until smooth with a blender or whisk.
2. Add milk to the egg and sugar mixture. Mix.
3. Mix together the cocoa and sifted flour to form a smooth mixture without lumps.
4. Add the flour and cocoa mixture to the eggs.
5. Mix the dough with a blender or whisk until smooth. Add the oil and mix again. The dough should have the consistency of thin sour cream.
6. Leave the finished dough for 20-25 minutes.
7. Fry the pancakes over low heat in a well-heated pan.

Our advice! These chocolate pancakes with milk make a very delicious pancake cake.

2. Lactose-free cocoa pancakes on water – recipe

This chocolate pancake recipe is perfect for those who are milk intolerant or on a dairy-free diet.

Ingredients for chocolate pancakes with cocoa on water:

• Sugar – 1-2 tablespoons;
• Medium eggs – 3 pcs.;
• Room temperature water – 1.5 cups;
• Flour - 1.5 cups;
• "CHOCOLATIER" natural cocoa powder – 4 tablespoons;
• Sunflower oil – 3 tablespoons.

Step-by-step preparation of chocolate pancakes on water:

1. Beat the eggs in a bowl, add the sugar and cocoa. Mix well until smooth with a mixer, whisk or fork. You can adjust the amount of sugar to your taste.
2. Sift the flour through a sieve and gradually add it to the container with the egg-chocolate mixture, stirring it regularly. You should get a fairly thick dough without lumps.
3. Add room temperature water to the dough, mix well until smooth. The dough should be as thick as usual pancake batter – like thin sour cream.
4. There is no need to add vegetable oil to the dough. It is only needed to grease the pan.
5. Fry the pancakes on both sides in a well-heated cast iron skillet or a special one for pancakes. Grease the skillet periodically with oil.

Our advice! Before serving, roll the pancakes into tubes and drizzle with melted dark chocolate.

3. Step-by-step recipe for custard pancakes with cocoa on kefir

If you want your pancakes to be, as they say, "openwork," then you need to cook them with kefir. And here is a recipe for chocolate pancakes with kefir.

Ingredients for custard pancakes with cocoa on kefir:

• Medium eggs – 2 pcs.;
• Sugar – 2 tablespoons;
• Salt – 0.5 tsp;
• Wheat flour - 2 cups;
• Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• Kefir at room temperature – 2 cups;
• Water – 1 glass;
• Baking soda - 0.5 tsp;
• Sunflower oil – 3 tablespoons.

How to make chocolate pancakes on kefir:

1. Traditionally, the pancake recipe begins with whisking eggs with sugar and salt.
2. Sift the flour together with cocoa powder into one bowl. This will help get rid of lumps when kneading the dough.
3. Add the cocoa-flour mixture along with the kefir to the eggs and sugar. Mix well with a whisk or mixer.
4. Add baking soda to a glass of water that has just boiled and stir. Pour this water into the pancake mixture, stirring well to prevent lumps from forming.
5. Let the dough stand for 10-15 minutes, add the oil, and mix well again.
6. Before baking the first pancake, grease a well-heated frying pan with oil using a cooking brush. Pour the batter with a ladle and spread evenly. Fry the pancakes on both sides until cooked.

Our advice! Caramel or raspberry sauces will help to emphasize the chocolate flavor of pancakes. Various nut spreads also taste great with custard pancakes.

4. Black and White Zebra Pancakes Recipe

This recipe for Maslenitsa pancakes is sure to impress your guests. These zebra-striped pancakes are sure to please everyone and will make you want to make them again and again.

Ingredients for Zebra Pancakes:

• Flour - 1 cup;
• Sugar – 2 tablespoons.
• Eggs – 2 pcs.;
• Vanilla sugar – 1 teaspoon;
• Salt – a pinch.
• Milk at room temperature – 2 cups;
• Natural dark cocoa powder – 2 tablespoons.

How to make Zebra pancakes?

1. Mix flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt in a deep bowl. Beat well with a whisk or mixer.
2. Add milk to the mixture, stir.
3. Divide the dough into 2 parts. Pour cocoa sifted through a strainer into one of them (to prevent lumps from forming), mix well.
4. Dough with dark cocoa powder «CHOCOLATIER» Pour into a vessel with a spout (teapot without a strainer, jug, mug, etc.).
5. Pour a ladle of white batter onto the hot pan and smooth it all over the bottom. Pour the chocolate batter on top in a thin stream, working in a circular motion from the center. Be careful not to make the pancakes too thick, as it will be difficult to roll them into a tube later. Place the pan on the heat.
6. Fry the pancakes for about 1 minute on each side.

Our advice! Zebra-style pancakes will only turn out on one side. On the other side, they will be plain. Therefore, for a spectacular serving of the dish, it is better to roll the pancakes with the zebra part up.

5. Eggless Chocolate Pancakes – Step-by-Step Recipe

If you think that it is practically impossible to make pancakes without eggs, then you are wrong. And here is a recipe for pancakes for Maslenitsa for those who do not use eggs.

Ingredients for eggless cocoa pancakes:

• Wheat flour - 2 cups;
• Sugar – 3 tablespoons;
• Baking soda – 0.5 tsp;
• Salt – a pinch;
• Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• Butter – 3 tablespoons;
• Warm milk – 1 liter.

How to make pancakes without eggs for Maslenitsa:

1. Mix flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder "CHOCOLATIER" natural.
2. Add melted butter to the dry mixture and stir.
3. Gradually pour in the warm milk, stirring well with a mixer or whisk.
4. Fry pancakes from the finished dough in a greased frying pan.

Our advice! Serve chocolate pancakes with cream cheese, sweet sauces, or condensed milk.

6. Pancakes with milk chocolate for Maslenitsa

Regular pancakes can also be made delicious for those who love chocolate. And for this you need very little - prepare the right chocolate filling.

Chocolate filling for pancakes:

• Chocolate "Millennium Discover Europe" milk. France – 1 tile;
• Crushed walnuts – 3 tablespoons;
• Butter – 3 tablespoons;
• Vanilla sugar – a pinch.

Making pancakes with milk chocolate filling:

1. Fry the pancakes according to your favorite recipe.
2. In a metal bowl, combine the chopped milk chocolate, butter, walnuts, and vanilla sugar.
3. Place the bowl in a water bath and melt the filling. Stir.
4. Using a pastry brush, spread the filling on the pancakes and arrange them in triangles on a plate.

Our advice! Serve these pancakes in portions, sprinkling them with additional chopped nuts.

7. Pancakes with milk chocolate and bananas – step-by-step recipe

The combination of milk chocolate and bananas can be safely called a classic. And if you also complement this deliciousness with pancakes for Maslenitsa... Well, you get the idea.

Ingredients for pancakes with baking powder on kefir:

• Kefir - 1 cup;
• Boiling water – 1 cup;
• Eggs – 2 pcs.;
• Salt – a pinch;
• Sugar – 4 tablespoons;
• Baking powder – 1 tsp;
• Flour - 1 cup;
• Oil – 3 tablespoons.

For the filling:

• Bananas – 6 pcs.;
• Milk chocolate – 140 g.

Step-by-step preparation of pancakes with bananas and milk chocolate:

1. Pour the kefir into a deep bowl. Pour boiling water into the kefir in a thin stream and mix well with a whisk or mixer on medium speed.
2. Add eggs, salt, sugar, and baking powder to the kefir. Mix.
3. Pour the sifted flour into the mixture. Mix again to ensure there are no lumps.
4. Pour oil into the finished pancake batter and mix again.
5. Fry the pancakes in a hot pan, pouring the batter with a ladle onto its bottom.
6. Wash, peel, and cut the bananas in half and across.
7. Melt in a water bath. milk chocolate "Millennium Fruits & Nuts" 140 g .
8. Brush the pancake with milk chocolate using a pastry brush.
9. Place a quarter of a banana on one edge of the pancake and roll it up. The chocolate will help the edges of the pancake hold together and prevent them from unrolling.

Our advice! And if you add strawberry slices and champagne when serving these pancakes, you have a recipe for a dish for lovers.

8. Recipe for pancakes with white chocolate and berries

Have you ever tasted pancakes with white chocolate? No? Then why not make them for Maslenitsa?

Ingredients for pancakes with white chocolate and berries:

• Eggs – 2 pcs.;
• Sugar – 2 tablespoons;
• Flour - 1 1/3 cups;
• Milk at room temperature – 2 cups;
• Salt – a pinch;
• Sunflower oil – 2 tablespoons;

For the filling:

• Frozen berries to taste – 1 cup;
• Water – 1 glass;
• Cornstarch – 2 tablespoons;
• Sugar - to taste;
• Chocolate Lyubimov porous white – 1 tile;
• Powdered sugar – for sprinkling.

We prepare pancakes with white chocolate and berries:

1. Beat the eggs and sugar with a mixer until foamy.
2. Add half of the sifted flour and some of the milk. Once the mixture is combined, add the remaining flour and milk.
3. Salt the dough, pour oil into it, mix.
4. Fry the pancakes as usual.
5. Prepare the berry filling. To do this, pour the prepared pitted berries into a saucepan with a thick bottom. Add sugar to taste, pour in 0.5 cups of water and bring to a boil.
6. Pour half of the juice that has separated into a metal mug.
7. Dissolve 1 tablespoon of cornstarch in water (2-3 tablespoons) and pour it into the berries. Boil the berry mixture until thickened and transfer it to a separate bowl.
8. Dissolve 1 tablespoon of starch in the berry juice and place it on the fire. Cook until thickened, stirring. This will be the gravy for the finished pancakes with berries and white chocolate.
9. Melt a bar of white chocolate in a water bath.
10. It's time to roll the pancakes. Place the berry mixture in the middle of the pancake, pour white chocolate over it, and roll the pancake into a tube.
11. Pour the finished pancakes with berry juice and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Our advice! It is better to choose berries that have a sweet taste. Then you will have to add less sugar to the filling.

9. Dark chocolate pancakes with cherries

Cherries go best with cream, right? And in this recipe, cherries are combined not only with cream, but also with delicious dark chocolate pancakes.

Ingredients for dark chocolate pancakes:

• Chocolate "Millennium Favorite" dark 99% – 0.5 tiles;
• Butter – 2 teaspoons;
• Cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• Starch – 2 teaspoons;
• Salt – a pinch;
• Flour – 3 tablespoons;
• Egg – 1 pc.;
• Milk – 150 ml;
• Sunflower oil – 1 tablespoon.

For the filling:

• Frozen pitted cherries – 1 cup;
• Sugar – 3 tablespoons;
• Powdered sugar – 1 tablespoon;
• Cream (at least 30% fat content) – 3 tablespoons.

Step-by-step preparation of dark chocolate pancakes with cherries:

1. Place the cherries in a heavy-bottomed saucepan, add the sugar, and place over a low heat. Cook until a thick syrup forms. Set aside to cool.
2. Melt the chocolate with the butter in a water bath.
3. Beat the egg with milk, add the mixture to the slightly cooled chocolate.
4. Separately, mix the dry ingredients for the dough: flour, cocoa powder, starch, salt.
5. Pour the chocolate milk mixture into the dry mixture, stirring constantly with a whisk or mixer to prevent lumps from forming.
6. Add oil to the dough, mix. Fry the pancakes in a well-heated frying pan.
7. Combine the chilled cream with powdered sugar, beat until creamy.
8. Spread the creamy mixture on the pancake, top it with cherries, and roll up the pancake.
9. Ready-made pancakes can be additionally drizzled with melted chocolate or fondant.

Our advice! If the dough is too thick, you can thin it with additional milk. If it is too runny, add flour.

10. Pancakes with chocolate mousse for Maslenitsa

These pancakes will decorate your holiday table. And they are truly chocolate, with chocolate, on chocolate. Are you intrigued?

Ingredients for chocolate pancakes with chocolate mousse:

• Eggs – 4 pcs.;
• Milk – 1 cup and 1 tablespoon;
• Salt – a pinch;
• Sugar – 4 tablespoons;
• Flour - ¾ cup;
• Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. spoons

For the filling:

• Dark chocolate 74% "Millennium with stevia" – 1.5 tiles;
• Sugar – 3 tablespoons;
• Egg yolks – 4 pcs.;
• Cream with at least 30% fat content – ​​6 tablespoons;
• Whipped cream – 1.5 cups.

We prepare chocolate pancakes with chocolate mousse:

1. First of all, prepare the mousse. To do this, melt the chocolate in a water bath.
2. In another bowl, also in a water bath, mix the egg yolks, sugar, and heavy cream. Stir until the mixture thickens.
3. Mix half of the whipped cream with the chocolate, and then add this mixture to the yolks.
4. Add the remaining cream to the mousse and mix gently with a spatula.
5. Make a dough with eggs, milk and dry ingredients. Let it rest for about 20 minutes.
6. Fry the pancakes in a well-heated pan.
7. Once the pancakes have cooled, spread the chocolate mousse on them and wrap them up.

Our advice! Before serving, decorate the chocolate pancakes with chocolate mousse with mint leaves and raspberries. Or sprinkle with powdered sugar.