Want an easy, minimal ingredient breakfast recipe the kids will love? These Chocolate Chip Pancakes are effortless, tasty and absolutely flavorful!
Pancakes are one of my kids favorite breakfast meals. Breakfast is actually one of their favorite things ever so we regularly make it for dinner, or shall we say “brinner”.
If you want to know how much we love pancakes, you can check out these Blueberry Pancakes, Oatmeal Pancakes and one of my personal favorites, Banana Pancakes.
There is something about Chocolate Chip Pancakes that brings me back to my childhood. My mom regularly added mix-ins and this was one she always knew that I liked and just have always made it since.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:
- Pancakes are a super easy recipe that use basic pantry ingredients that are usually on hand at any given moment.
- This recipe can easily be doubled or tripled, depending on how many mouths you want to feed.
- The addition of chocolate chips (or anything else) really give a new depth of flavor to the pancakes themselves.
So for this recipe, my kids really enjoy the taste of milk chocolate chips so we like to use them, but semi-sweet or even dark chocolate chips work wonders with this.
The chocolate chips slightly melt while cooking, so you get gooey melted chocolate in each and every bite, something that really is hard to resist!
HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE CHIP PANCAKES, STEP BY STEP:
In bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar until combined. In another bowl whisk together milk, egg, butter and vanilla (Photos 1-4).
Fold in your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients until just combined, batter may be lumpy and that is ok. Gently fold in your chocolate chips and let the batter rest for about 5 minutes (Photos 5-8).
Heat a non-stick skillet on stove over medium-high heat and spray with non-stick cooking spray.Pour or scoop the batter onto the pan in 1/4 cup measurements, gently spread the batter out some then cook on each side for about 3-4 minutes until you see bubbles forming on top of batter and the underside is golden (Photo 9).
Flip until browned on other side, remove to plate to repeat until all batter is used.
This recipe is fail-proof. For the longest time, I had doubts about making pancakes, more or less about flipping the pancakes actually.
If you have a good pancake spatula then you shouldn’t have any issues. I still slightly tip my pan at an angle when I flip my pancakes (habit). But I have built my pancake confidence up for many years.
This Chocolate Chip Pancake recipe is seriously just so so so tasty. We eat it with a variety of syrups such as plain maple, chocolate and even sometimes melted peanut butter that we drizzle over it.
There really is no wrong way to eat these chocolate chip pancakes, this for sure!
Some other easy breakfast recipes we really enjoy that whip up in minutes include French Toast, Sausage, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Rolls and these Pancake Muffins!
Now I’m not the biggest lover of butter on my pancakes, but my kids think it is essential so we always add a pat on top. I’ve been coming around to it slowly but surely.
TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MAKING CHOCOLATE CHIP PANCAKES:
- Whisk dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately and then mix together until just combined, we do not want to over-mix the batter.
- Letting the batter sit for about 5 minutes gives time for the gluten to rest, resulting in pancakes that aren’t chewy and more fluffy.
- You can use any type of chocolate chips you like in this recipe, we prefer milk, but semi-sweet, dark and even mini chocolate chips work wonder.
- We like to spray our pan with non-stick cooking spray rather than melting butter into the pan, I feel that it cooks more even.
- Gently spread the batter out when pouring into pan, the batter isn’t super runny so it won’t spread as easily, so you need a little encouragement to get it larger.
- We don’t have any issues with chocolate chips sinking in the batter, but if you do have issues, just toss it in a little bit of flour before folding into batter.
If you want that perfect breakfast recipe that is quick, easy and everyone seems to love, then you need to whip up these Chocolate Chip Pancakes as soon as possible!
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Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 Tbs sugar
- 1 1/4 cup milk
- 1 egg beaten
- 3 Tbs butter melted
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup chocolate chips any flavor
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar until combined.
- In another bowl whisk together milk, egg, butter and vanilla.
- Fold or whisk in your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients until just combined.
- Then fold in your chocolate chips, batter may be lumpy and that is ok.
- Let the batter rest for about 5 minutes.
- Heat a non-stick skillet on stove over medium-high heat and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
- Pour or scoop the batter onto the pan in 1/4 cup measurements, gently spread the batter out some then press chocolate chips into the batter.
- Cook on each side for about 3-4 minutes until you see bubbles form and burst on top of batter, and the underside is golden.
- Flip until browned on other side, remove to plate to repeat until all batter is used.
Notes
- Whisk dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately and then mix together until just combined, we do not want to over-mix the batter.
- Letting the batter sit for about 5 minutes gives time for the gluten to rest, resulting in pancakes that aren't chewy and more fluffy.
- You can use any type of chocolate chips you like in this recipe, we prefer milk, but semi-sweet, dark and even mini chocolate chips work wonder.
- We like to spray our pan with non-stick cooking spray rather than melting butter into the pan, I feel that it cooks more even.
- Gently spread the batter out when pouring into pan, the batter isn't super runny so it won't spread as easily, so you need a little encouragement to get it larger.
- We don't have any issues with chocolate chips sinking in the batter, but if you do have issues, just toss it in a little bit of flour before folding into batter.
Nutrition
Tornadough Alli is not a nutritionist or dietitian, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and nutritional value is important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and values can vary depending on which brands were used.
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Easy to make, delicious!
Susie
My 7year old daughter and I made these for a Father’s Day breakfast. The recipe was very easy to follow and pancakes came out scrumptious. They were a winner at my house and will go in my family recipe book. My chocolate chips did sink but I will follow the tips you mentioned next time I make these. Thank you for this recipe!
Noelle
These were awesome! I have never commented on a recipe on any site before- but these are worth it! My daughter had a friend over for a sleepover and they couldn’t stop talking about how good these were. Definitely book marking. Anytime I can get the kids to like it- it’s a winner! Thank you 🙂
Logan Fallaen
I really love this recipe for how little ingredients there is, yet there delicious. I have three younger siblings who love chocolate chip pancakes so this recipe is an amazing recipe for quick, easy, and delicious chocolate chip pancakes.
Elizabeth C.
Wonderful recipe! These pancakes were so perfectly fluffy and chocolate-y.
Hayley
Question – is the nutrients information just for one pancake?
Tornadough Alli
Yes it should be, you can also calculate it on your own, the API system we use for the nutritional information gives us ingredients and measurements then divides it on how many servings there are.
Catherine
Perfect pancakes for kids! I have made many forgetable pancakes over the years, usually too sweet or too floury but not these. My batter was a bit thinner than described, I’m guessing either because I had 1% milk or my 7 year old overstirred a bit. First 2 were perfect but as my skillet got hotter, they got too brown. Just lowered heat and cooked 2 minutes per side- still really delicious!
Mike and Jackie
Just a quick note – it says blueberries on the recipe card. These look delicious-trying them tonight!!
Tornadough Alli
Thanks for pointing that out, I fixed it.
Emmy
They r very delicious and they were easy to make
Stacy Roach
Been looking for a recipe like this for years. Fluffiest ever. Never making any other pancakes.
Stacy Roach
We also make these minus the choc chips, as our basic pancake recipe. Amazing
nevaeh bryant
Theses are the first pancakes i have made that dont taste bad deliciouse
Elizabeth
very light and fluffy and you can make them gluten free!
Kristie
This is the first pancake recipe I’ve made that has actually come out super FLUFFY! They are sooo good! Thanks for the recipe
Laura Mc
This is a definite keeper- Thank you😊My family loved them. I reserved some batter without chocolate chips for myself and they were light and fluffy. I served with freshly made whipped cream💕
Sarah
Best pancakes ever! I love them so much. 5 star pancakes.
Laura Reese
My kids will love this recipe! I can’t wait to surprise them next weekend.
lauren kelly
These are my kids absolute favorite! They look so fluffy and delicious! Thank you!
Krissy Allori
My kids love this recipe! It’s a winner.
Suzy
Oh yes!! My favorite type of pancakes to make on the weekends! So, so good!
Kara
This is one surefire way to make my kids happy in the morning! We love serving ours with some fresh sweetened whipped cream. So good!