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



