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Bacon Guinness Chocolate Pancakes with a Frothy Whipped Cream Head and Guinness Chocolate Syrup

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Bacon Guinness Chocolate Pancakes with a Frothy Whipped Cream Head, Guinness Chocolate Syrup
Guinness brings out the chocolate flavour in a stack of these chocolate pancakes with bacon topped with a frothy head of whipped cream and Guinness chocolate syrup.

This year St Patrick’s Day is on a Sunday and that means cutting back on the amount of Irish ales, stouts and whiskies in the evening but it also provides the opportunity to do some more cooking in the spirit of the day, starting with breakfast! Guinness and chocolate are a perfect match and I was thinking that some Guinness chocolate pancakes would be a great way to kick off St Patrick’s day! For the recipe, I pretty much took my standard chocolate pancake recipe and replaced the milk with Guinness. I made the pancakes small so that I could make a nice stack of them as if they were Guinness in a glass and I topped them off with a frothy head of whipped cream. Instead of using regular pancake syrup or even maple syrup I decided to kick up the chocolate and Guinness flavours with a Guinness and chocolate syrup ! You know me too well; I could not stop there, I just had to add some crumbled bacon to the pancake batter to give the chocolate pancakes a saltiness to play off of their sweetness. (The bacon is of course completely optional and should be omitted for the vegetarian version.) You are sure to get your St Patrick’s Day celebrations off to a good start with these totally amazing bacon Guinness chocolate pancakes with a frothy whipped cream head and Guinness chocolate syrup !

Bacon Guinness Chocolate Pancakes with a Frothy Whipped Cream Head, Guinness Chocolate Syrup
Start with a tall stack of Guinness chocolate pancakes.

Bacon Guinness Chocolate Pancakes with a Frothy Whipped Cream Head, Guinness Chocolate Syrup
Top with a frothy head of whipped cream.

Bacon Guinness Chocolate Pancakes with a Frothy Whipped Cream Head, Guinness Chocolate Syrup
Pour on the Guinness chocolate syrup!

Bacon Guinness Chocolate Pancakes with a Frothy Whipped Cream Head, Guinness Chocolate Syrup
Optionally top with chocolate shavings followed by the bacon!

Bacon Guinness Chocolate Pancakes with a Frothy Whipped Cream Head, Guinness Chocolate Syrup

Bacon Guinness Chocolate Pancakes with a Frothy Whipped Cream Head and Guinness Chocolate Syrup

Bacon Guinness Chocolate Pancakes with a Frothy Whipped Cream Head and Guinness Chocolate Syrup

Prep Time:10 minutes Cook Time:15 minutes Total Time:25 minutes Servings: 2

Guinness brings out the chocolate flavour in a stack of these chocolate pancakes with bacon topped with a frothy head of whipped cream and Guinness chocolate syrup.

ingredients
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup + 2 tablespoons Guinness or other Irish stout
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 4 strips bacon, cut into 1/2 inch pieces and cooked (optional)
  • 1/2 cup heavy/whipping cream, whipped with 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup Guinness chocolate syrup
directions
  1. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
  2. Mix the Guinness, egg and butter in another large bowl.
  3. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients along with the bacon.
  4. Heat a pan over medium heat and melt a touch of butter (or bacon grease) in it.
  5. Pour 1/4 cup of the mixture into the pan and cook until the surface starts to bubble and the bottom is golden brown, about 2-3 minutes.
  6. Flip the pancake and cook the other side until the bottom is golden brown, about 1-2 minutes. Repeat for the remaining batter.
  7. Serve in a stack topped with a head of frothy whipped cream and Guinness chocolate syrup.
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  29. Maxine says

    October 25, 2013 at 3:12 pm

    Kevin: found this recipe again while searching your site for Thanksgiving and Christmas Brunch inspiration. Is it safe to assume that the alcohol cooks out of the pancakes and syrup so it can be served to minors?? Will definitely be using the pumpkin hummus!!

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  33. Anonymous says

    June 24, 2014 at 5:44 am

    I made these pancakes for Father's Day, and they are Dad-approved! It has a more cacao-y, natural flavor, so young children won't care for them. the bacon is not optional–these pancakes must have bacon to help cut the sweetness. The beer mixes surprisingly easily into the flour, so i overmixed them by accident. but still delicious! this is definitely a repeat-recipe.

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  35. ali says

    March 16, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    Going to make these for the fourth year in a row and was wondering, can anyone tell me how to convert it into a waffle recipe? Just got a new belgian waffle maker and want to do them waffle style this year 🙂

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