Name: Walnut Crpes
Yield: Serve 4 to 6 unless otherwise stated.
Ingredients: 2 tbsp sugar; ½ cup sugar; 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder; 2 tbsp rum; Clarified unsalted butter for cooking; 2¾ cups ground walnuts; 2 cups all-purpose flour; 3 eggs; 1 cup milk; 4-6 tbsp light cream; 4 oz good semisweet chocolate, grated; 3 egg yolks; 1 tsp grated orange zest; Pinch of salt; 1 cup carbonated water; 2 tbsp light rum; 1 tsp sugar; 1 tbsp melted butter

Preparation info

Serve
4 to 6
unless otherwise stated.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Two Fat Ladies Obsessions

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1999

About

This is a Hungarian walnut dish, very rich, very delicious, very straightforward. I once “had” (I can’t think quite how else to describe it) a Hungarian trapeze artist. He had an enormously sweet tooth and pined for the desserts of his childhood. He would have loved this. It is quite a lengthy recipe to prepare, but well worth the effort. The picture opposite shows a lovely orange sauce, so that you can see the crêpes in all their glory, but my favourite is the chocolate sauce, given below.