Viennese Style Breakfast Crêpes Palatschinken Recipes

TOPFENPALATSCHINKEN - CREPES WITH QUARK FILLING

Steps:

• For the batter:.
• Combine milk, one egg, half of the softened butter and salt, mix at medium speed for a minute, reduce to low speed and gradually add the flour, blend for another minute.Cover and refrigerate for one hour.
• Lightly butter a non stick skillet or omelette pan, heat over medium heat, ladle a little of the batter into the pan. Lift and swirl pan to cover entire surface, cook for @ 1 minute. Lift edge with a spatula to loosen and turn; cook ca. 30 seconds more and remove to a platter. Repeat with remaining batter, adding butter as needed.
• For the Filling:.
• Separate the two remaining eggs. Beat egg whites to soft peaks.
• In another bowl mix the rest of the sugar with the 2 egg yolks, add the Quark, the raisins, sour cream and lemon rind. Fold in the beaten egg whites until well combined.
• Fill each crepe with 2-3 tsp of the cream filling, roll up and place in a buttered baking dish, 4 to 6 per portion.
• bake in a 350F oven until golden brown and heated through, Ca. 5 - 6 minutes.
• Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve right away.

AUSTRIAN CREAM CHEESE CREPES (PALATSCHINKEN) WITH VANILLA SAUCE

Steps:

• For the crepes dough, mix all of the ingredients with a whisk, cover and let rest for 20 minutes (in the fridge). If you use vanilla pods instead of vanilla sugar, cut them lenghtwise and scrape out the core.
• Mix all of the ingredients for the cream cheese filling.
• Depending on the flour, after the 20 minutes rest you may add more flour or milk to the dough.
• In a small pan, make very thin crepes. In the blogpost above, I added a youtube tutorial on making crepes, if you didn't make some yet.
• For the vanilla sauce, put the milk in a pot. Put aside 10 tbsp. of the milk. Heat up the pot with the milk. Mix the sugar and the cornstarch with the 10 tbsp. of milk. When the milk in the pot begins to boil, switch to lower level. Add the vanilla-starch-mix (and some saffron, eventually). Stir for a few minutes, until the sauce becomes thicker.
• Fill the crepes with 2-3 tbsp. of cream cheese filling and form rolls like in the pictures above. Garnish with hot vanilla sauce.