Red Velvet Pancakes

I made this recipe for my son the other day after watching one of those food truck shows. I can't take full credit for it, the name of the food truck is Buttermilk and you can find them in LA. If you're like me that neither live in LA or would have patience to stand in line for some pancakes you can make yourself, come with me and make this. I've become a bigger pancake hero in my house now because of this, I of course would love for you to enjoy the same gratification.

Ingredients:
*1 1/2 cups flour
*2 tbsp butter, cold or shortening
*1 tbsp baking powder
*1/3 cup of sugar
*1 tsp salt
(Or if lazy, use 1 1/2 cup bisquick or pancake mix + 1/4 cup of sugar)
1 tbsp cocoa powder
3/4 cup or more of buttermilk or just whole milk (Don't you even dare use 2% milk, ok! Pretty please)
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vinegar
1/2 bottle of a 2 oz red food color or 1 tsp red food coloring paste
1/3 cup milk chocolate chips, I use the ghirardelli brand ones. They make the best milk choco chips in my opinion.
extra butter or butter spray for pan or griddle
powdered sugar for garnish

*Pancake mix from scratch

Whipped cream
1 cup heavy cream
1 tbsp powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla

*In a food processor, put flour, butter, baking powder, sugar, salt and cocoa powder together and pulse until combined. You want that cornmeal looking texture. Remove and transfer into a bowl.

If you're using pancake mix, just dump your mix in the bowl plus your cocoa powder, whisk all together.

Add you buttermilk, egg, vanilla and food color in the  pancake mix. In a small bowl combine your baking soda and vinegar then add to pancake mix batter. Once your batter is all combined, add the chocolate chips. If you feel your batter is too thick, add more buttermilk or milk.

Heat your griddle or pan and spray with butter spray or melt your butter. I used an ice cream scoop to measure the tiny pancakes or use whatever you would like to scoop your pancake. This doesn't get that bubbly pancake top like a regular pancake so just be careful to watch. I saw a minute or a minute and a half per side then flip it over.

Dust with powdered sugar and garnish with whipped cream.

To make the whipped cream, combine all the whipped cream ingredients and mix in low speed until soft peaks, then increase speed to high speed until medium stiff peaks form.

I hope you enjoy this recipe. It was a hit last week we made it twice.