Aaah, the weather’s cooler…. so now it’s time for some serious comfort food.

A sweet traditional family recipe from my Aunty Daph, who is married to Robert, a lovely Croatian man. Multicultural home-cooking – how good is that!? Yum!

 

Croatian Pancakes
by Daphne Misbrener

Pancake mixture:
2 cups plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups milk
3 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
30g melted butter

Plum butter (purchase from continental deli, or fruit shop)

Cheese Mixture:
400g cottage cheese (from deli is best as it is drier than creamed cottage cheese in a tub)
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar.
Mix all together, add a little cream if too dry.

For Topping before cooking.
Castor sugar
Cream

Whisk all pancake ingredients together until smooth.
Heat crepe pan and grease with a little olive oil.
Using a large spoon or a measuring cup, pour about 1/2 to 3/4 cup of mixture
(depending on size of pan) into pan and tilt till suface is covered.
Cook on medium heat until brown, flip over and brown other side.
Stack on a plate.

Grease a large ovenproof dish with a little olive oil.
Spread jam (I use Croatian Provodil plum butter) in centre of a pancake to within 2cm of edge, not too thick as it will run out when heated. Roll it and place in baking dish.
Spread the next pancake with cheese mixture spread lightly, roll it up and place it next to the first jam one.

Alternate jam, and cheese rolled pancakes in baking dish, close together. You can keep in fridge overnight if liked, covered with plastic wrap.
Sprinkle with a couple of tablespoons of castor sugar.
Drizzle cream over all pancakes.
Cover with foil and bake in a moderate over for about 1/2 hour, untill heated through and look puffy.
Serve one of each flavour on a pretty plate.

🙂