Gundel Pancake

Pancake is a very popular dessert in Hungary. Hungarian pancakes, differently from other pancakes, are very thin and are rolled up with jam, cocoa, cinnamon or nutella.
The Gundel pancake is a walnut cream  filled pancake served with chocholate sauce. It is the specialy of the Gundel Restaurant. The Gundel restaurant opened in 1910 by Karoly Gundel and it is still existing today. Moreover it is the most famous restaurant in Hungary and has a very good reputation around the world.
 They serve traditional Hungarian food such as Goulash, Fisherman's soup or goose liver and of course the famous pancake, the Gundel pancake.
The Gundel pancake is a real calorie bomb and it is almost impossible to eat more than one at once, but you will not regret if you try it!

Ingredients:
Pancake batter:

• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• small pinch salt
• 1/3 sparkling mineral water

Filling:

• 60 g walnut meal
• 60 g chopped walnuts
• 1/3 cup heavy cream
• 2 tablespoon rum
• 50 g sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Topping:

• 50 g semi-sweet chocolate
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/2 tablespoon butter
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 tablespoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon cocoa
• 1 tablespoon rum

Pancake Batter
1. Mix the eggs with the sugar, salt, milk.
2. Add the flour and stir until smooth. Then add the sparkling water. Let it rest for half an hour.
3. Heat a frying pan with some oil or butter.
4. Add one small ladle of batter and rotate the pan to spread the batter. It should be very thin.

5. Boil the heavy cream with the sugar, rum and cinnamon and add the two types of walnut.

6. Spread the filling in the 4 pancakes. Fold in half and then fold it again.

7. Temperate the chocolate with the milk. Mix the egg yolks and then the other ingredients. Heat the mixture (do not boil it!) for a few more minutes.
8. Heat a pan with butter and fry a bit the folded pancakes. Serve warm with the hot chocolate sauce.