Chocolate pancakes

How to make pancakes or with chocolate . Perhaps the sweet recipes that are most successful at home, pancakes.

Today’s dessert directly rivals the  Nutella crepes , although here we have prepared some sweet Galician pancakes.

The accompaniment could not be better than this cream with your favorite chocolate. A snack worthy of the smallest of the house and the not so little. The frixuelos, Freixo marrucho or pancakes is Galician dessert par excellence. They can take as many shapes as your imagination is capable of.

In this recipe we make the pancakes for dessert with a base of milk cream, although the traditional and authentic pancakes are made with broth and in La Matanza with a little pork blood. Yes, it sounds a little bad but you have to try them, they are exquisite. It is one of the desserts of the Galician carnival or entroido, with its entroido orellas or the famous fried milk .

A few months ago I was on my way to Ourense and listened to Radio3. Although it is a music chain they were in the middle of a dispute about the origin of such a tasty dessert, it turns out that it comes from the Camino de Santiago. One of the announcers (I don’t remember the name) commented that thanks to the road, in the Middle Ages pilgrims brought to France what they now call “crêpes”.

Although I have read that in ancient times in French Brittany this milk cake was cooked but to fill with meat or any other ratatouille.

On the other hand, we usually find the pancake in Galicia in a sweet format, filled with custard, pastry cream , cream and as you will see in this chocolate recipe. Although in the past, pancakes were also prepared in a salty format, broth pancakes . You see that there is discussion on the subject.

Preparation of the milk pancakes

1. The paste-cream is quite easy to prepare. In a bowl we pour the milk, the flour, a pinch of salt, the eggs and the zest of a lemon.
2. Mix everything with the mixer without lumps. Let it rest for an hour so that it finishes thickening although the cream must be loose.
3. In a hot pan (very important, it must be non-stick), sprinkle with a few drops of olive oil. The real ones would be with bacon or lard.
4. When it is hot, add the pasta so that it covers the entire bottom, only just enough, so that they are fine.
5. We have it for half a minute at medium temperature and turn it over with a fork.
6. If the fork is not good for you, you can use the trick of turning the pan with a plate as if it were a potato omelette. As you get more practical, it will no longer be necessary.
7. For each pancake we must add drops of oil.
8. We remove them on a plate (we can roll them up, make them a handkerchief or leave them as is).

Preparation of the chocolate cream. Final presentation of pancakes

1. To make the chocolate we prepare in a bowl, the chocolate, the cream and the butter. We put in the microwave for 4 minutes at low temperature. We stop every minute to stir. If we see lumps form we stop the process, we do not want the cream to burn.
2. Let cool for a few minutes, the rest of the chocolate cream is essential.
3. If you do not have a microwave we can do it in a saucepan at low temperature. Butter first, then cream and then chocolate.
4. Spread the pancakes with the chocolate inside and outside. Always to the taste of the diner. Simply delicious, to repeat over and over …

Put on your boots … The bad thing about pancakes is that you eat one in three while you prepare them. The cook had to have some advantage.

A perfect dessert recipe to accompany a pleasant evening with our friends, a royal snack.

Here you have a step by step in photos where I show how to prepare this recipe for pancakes with chocolate .  Do not miss any detail so that they come out perfect.