Crepes

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Ingredients:
  • 1 cup of All Purpose Flour
  • 1 tsp. Cocoa powder (optional)
  • 1 tbsp. Brown Sugar
  • 2 caps Vanilla eccesence 
  • Pinch of Salt
  • 1 Egg
  • 2 tbsp. Melted Butter
  • 1 cup Whole Milk
  • Icing sugar for sprinkling on top
  • For dessert or breakfast use: maple syrup,  melted chocolate or Nutella, fresh berries or banana
  • For savoury crepes you can use spinach, cheese, crispy potatoes,etc. 
Method: 
To make the batter: 
  1. You can use a hand mixer, whisk or a blender to make the batter- Just whisk or blend the plain flour, milk, sugar, egg, butter, salt and vanilla essence together. Make sure you get rid of all the lumps. Add a pinch of salt.
  2. You can add some cocoa to the batter to make chocolate crepes. (optional)
To make the crepes: 
  1. Grease a skillet or a pan with some butter or cooking spray.
  2. Using a ladle or a measuring cup or spoon add about 1/4th cup batter to the hot pan. Immediately run it around the pan to form a thin, even crepe. Cook on each side for 2 minutes.
  3. Remove on a plate. When they are all stacked up & ready, work on the filling.
  4.  The first couple of crepes will not be soft, but don’t fret once the pan reaches the right temperature they start falling off the griddle.
 To make the filling:
  1. You can use any filling of your choice, chocolate spread, nutella, salsa or ketchup, potato bhaji, cheese & spinach really anything that you would like or have in the pantry can be used.
  2. However since Mr. N has a sweet tooth and loves something sweet after dinner, I came up with this easy dessert recipe.
  3. I got the basic crepe recipe and decided to do something different for the filling.
  4. I had some hazelnut chocolate that I bought from IKEA and some caramel chocolate a friend gifted for Easter  So I melted these two chocolates separately, in a microwave safe bowl, with some cream.
  5. If using nutella make sure you warm it for a few seconds with a few drops of water or milk to get it to a smooth flowing consistency.
To assemble each crepe: 
  1. Spoon some of the chocolate mixture on one semi-circle or one half on the crepe. Spread it evenly with a butter knife
  2. Fold the other half of the crepe. Sprinkle some icing or powdered sugar and drizzled over some maple syrup.
  3. When I make these for breakfast, I add some sliced bananas on top of the chocolate.
Crepes with chocolate, maple syrup and hazelnuts
This is a really great dessert that takes only a few minutes to get together. We hope this recipe helps you when you have guests over & haven’t had the time to plan a dessert or just on one of those nights when you crave something sweet & filling.



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