Chocolate Oreo Pancakes - A celebration of 100 posts!

Extremely excited on posting the 100th post in My Cheerful Kitchen. I realised only last week, when I posted Onam Sadhya, that I have posted 99 recipes already! I wanted my 100th post to be special, yet simple, that I can be tried by all. So here goes my 100th post, for all chocoholics like me :) 

Recipe Source: chocolatecoveredkatie.com

INGREDIENTS:

For the pancake: (Makes 4 palm sized pancakes)

• White Vinegar - 1/2 teaspoon (can be substituted with lemon juice)
• Milk - 5 tablespoons
• Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon
• Oil - 1 tablespoon (Vegetable or coconut oil)
• Maida - 1/4 cup
• Baking powder - 3/4 teaspoon
• Salt - 1/8 teaspoon
• Cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon
• Sugar - 2 tablespoon (can be increased or reduced according to your flavor. I used only 1 Tbsp and found it less sweeter. So next time I'd increase it to 2)

For the cream layer:

• Oreo cookies - 2-3 crushed (any cream/chocolate cookies can be used)
• Yogurt - 1/2 cup
• Vanilla extract - 1/2 teaspoon
• Sugar - 3 to 4 teaspoons (depends on your taste preference and sourness/sweetness of the yogurt)

METHOD:

1. Pour the yogurt in a muslin cloth and hang it, to allow the excess water to drain. In a hot and humid place like Chennai, the yogurt will sour if hung outside in a muslin cloth for long. So I usually pour it in a strainer, place the strainer over a vessel and keep it in the fridge
2. In a bowl, mix together vinegar(or lemon juice), milk, vanilla extract and oil. Stir well
3. In another bowl, mix the dry ingredients - maida, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder and sugar. Mix well
4. Grease a non-stick pan with little oil and heat it on a medium flame
5. In the meanwhile, combine the wet and dry ingredients together, till they are just mixed (Do Not over mix)
6. Pour spoon full of batter on the pan, to form palm sized pancakes. Reduce the heat if it has become too hot. Once you start to see bubbles on the top, flip the pancake and cook it on the other side
7. Mix the hung yogurt, vanilla extract and sugar together. Add in the crushed cookies to the filling
8. On a serving plate, place one pancake, spread a layer of filling and stack another pancake on top and repeat the process. That's it! Simple, yummy, chocolatey pancake is ready to be hogged on to!!!!