Chocolate Chip Pancakes!

This recipe is based off of Barefoot Contessa's Banana Sour Cream Pancakes. Because my family is not too fond of bananas in our pancakes ( we discovered our dislike when making this recipe), I decided to add chocolate chips! You can find this recipe under Banana Pancakes on Foodnetwork.com. If you dont have sour cream you can use yogurt, and if you dont have yogurt, you can just omit it all together (it still tastes great without it!). Enjoy!


Ingredients

* 1 1/2 cups flour
* 3 tablespoons sugar
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
* 1/2 cup sour cream
* 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon milk
* 2 extra-large eggs
* 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
* 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
* Unsalted butter
* 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
* Pure maple syrup

Directions

Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together the sour cream, milk, eggs, vanilla, and lemon zest. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ones, mixing only until combined. Add chocolate chips.

Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat until it bubbles. Ladle the pancake batter into the pan to make 3 or 4 pancakes. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, until bubbles appear on top and the underside is nicely browned. Flip the pancakes and then cook for another minute until browned. Wipe out the pan with a paper towel, add more butter to the pan, and continue cooking pancakes until all the batter is used. Serve with butter and maple syrup or eat them like a chocolate chip cookie!