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Sweet pancakes with walnuts or cream

A very special, delicious recipe: little sweet pancakes filled with walnuts or a cheese cream, drenched in syrup.

Special ingredients: Orange blossom water Amazon, Semolina Amazon

Video in Spanish on my YouTube channel.

Ingredients

As I list them in the video description.

Cheese cream filling

  • 1 l milk
  • ⅓ cup (25 g) sugar
  • ⅓ cup (40 g) semolina
  • ⅓ cup (35 g) cornstarch
  • 1 package cream cheese
  • 1 tbsp orange blossom water

Walnut filling

  • 200 g walnuts, chopped
  • ½ tbsp ground cinnamon
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp orange blossom water

Pancake batter

  • 3 ½ cups warm water
  • 2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup fine semolina
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • ½ tsp instant yeast
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tbsp orange blossom water
  • ¼ tsp salt

Syrup

  • 4 cups (600 g) sugar
  • 2 cups water
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp orange blossom water

How it's made, in short

  1. Cook the milk with the sugar, semolina and cornstarch, stirring constantly; add the cream cheese until thick and let it cool.
  2. Mix the chopped walnuts with the cinnamon, sugar and orange blossom water.
  3. Whisk the batter ingredients into the warm water and let it rest for an hour.
  4. Cook the pancakes on one side only over medium heat until dry on top; fill them and seal by pressing the edges.
  5. Fry until golden and drench them in the cooled syrup.

Watch the video to see every step.

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