Chocolate Griddle Cakes With Chocolate Sauce

• 34 cup heavy cream
• 14 cup Amaretto
• 7 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped (not unsweetened)
• 14 cup powdered sugar
• 12 cup dutch-process unsweetened cocoa powder
• 34 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 14 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 12 teaspoon baking soda
• 18 teaspoon salt
• 2 whole large eggs
• 1 large egg yolk
• 34 cup well-shaken buttermilk
• 14 cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• unsalted butter, for greasing griddle

1. Make sauce:.
2. Bring cream to a boil in a 1-quart saucepan, then pour hot cream over chocolate and sugar in a bowl, gently whisking until smooth.
3. Mix in Amaretto.
4. Keep warm or at room temperature.
5. Make griddle cakes:.
6. Sift together cocoa, cinnamon, flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl.
7. Whisk in eggs, yolk, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla until combined well.
8. Heat a griddle or nonstick skillet over moderately low heat and lightly coat with butter.
9. Working in batches of 2 or 3, pour 1/3 cup batter per cake onto hot griddle and cook until bubbles appear on surface, 1 to 2 minutes.
10. Flip cakes with a large spatula and cook until tops spring back when pressed gently, about 1 minute more.
11. Transfer to a plate and loosely cover with foil to keep warm.
12. Add 1/2 teaspoon butter to griddle between batches.
13. Serve cakes in stacks, topped with chocolate sauce.

heavy cream, bittersweet chocolate, powdered sugar, dutchprocess, cinnamon, flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, eggs, egg yolk, wellshaken buttermilk, vegetable oil, vanilla, unsalted butter

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-griddle-cakes-with-chocolate-sauce-207676 (may not work)