If you have Halloween pancake shapes then you can easily make scary Halloween pancakes!!! If you don’t have these special moulds, just make some normal pancakes and use cookie cutters or play-dough cutters to stamp out the shapes. I’ve made these Halloween chestnut pancakes with chocolate coconut milk but you can use normal cocoa too.

You’ll need:

• 1 cup of cocoa
• 1 cup of flour
• 2 small eggs
• 100g chestnut purée
• Oil , maybe sugar
• To serve: melted chocolate, whipped cream, icing pen

How to make the Halloween pancakes:

1. Put the ingredients into a blender. If the chestnut purée is not sweet enough for you add some sugar. Add one small spoonful of oil. Blend until you get a thick, smooth dough. Leave it to rest for a few minutes.
2. Oil a pancake pan lightly then arrange your moulds in it. Or put some  metal rings in it. Ask an adult to heat up the pan, then carefully pour some batter into the moulds/rings. When the top of each pancake is no longer wet, push it out of the mould and turn it over. Cook for 30 seconds and transfer them all to a plate.
3. Make as many as you can from the batter.
4. Use chocolate sauce and whipped cream to decorate your shapes, then eat them!!!

Tips:

• You can  use orange ready-rolled icing on the pumpkins, or white icing on the ghosts. Put your pancakes on them, and cut around with a not-to-sharp-knife. Then glue them together with jam or little water.
• You can make these pancakes for Christmas too, just use different shapes (star, snowman, bell, xmas tree, holly and so on)
• You can make Halloween pancakes with other pancake mixture too – why don’t you try the cinnamon & apple pancake recipe?