Sweet Crêpes

Name: Sweet Crêpes (Palačinky/Palacinky)
Cuisine: Czech
Ingredients: 200 g/7 oz/generous 1⅔ cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 2 eggs; pinch of salt; 500 ml/17 fl oz/2¼ cups milk; butter or oil, for frying; butter or oil, for frying; 100 g/3¾ oz chocolate spread or blackcurrant jam; 100 g/3¾ oz chocolate spread or blackcurrant jam; 1 can of strawberries in syrup (400 g/14 oz can); 100 g/3¾ oz icing (confectioners’) sugar; whipped cream, to serve; chocolate topping/syrup (in bottle); chocolate topping/syrup (in bottle)

Palačinky/Palacinky

Preparation info

Serves
3-4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Czech & Slovak Food and Cooking

By Ivana Veruzabova

Published 2015

About

This dish is eaten as a dessert and as a main course. Each serving consists of one large, thin pancake, spread with the filling, then rolled up and topped with icing sugar, whipped cream and chocolate.

Ingredients

200 g/7 oz/generous 1⅔ cups plain (all-purpose) flour
2 <

Europe
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Dessert
Main course
Vegetarian
Eastern Europe

Method

Combine the flour and eggs in a bowl. Add the salt and gradually add the milk while whisking the batter. The mixture should be the consistency of double (heavy) cream; if it is too thin, add more flour, and if it is too thick, add more milk.
Heat a small amount of butter or oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Pour a ladleful of batter into the pan a