Easy dessert crepes
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I found a recipe for crepes at the back of a Maya pancake mix box and I’ve been having crepes for breakfast for two days. The batter is really just a diluted pancake batter with an additional egg. Of course, I never did it the easy way until two days ago. I used to make my own batter with flour, eggs, a little cornstarch, water and melted butter to make crepes. But the easy recipe from the pancake mix box turned out well.
The most common way to serve crepes in the Philippines is to fill each crepe with whipped cream and fresh fruits. The fancy way is to fold each crepe into quarters, arrange them overlapping over one another on a plate and to drizzle them with rum-laced syrup. Well… I wanted to do it differently. I already cut the effort by half by using the pancake mix recipe, so, why not exert some extra effort on the presentation? I folded each crepe in half then rolled it into a “flower”. You know, rolled them as though I was making paper roses? The result is what you see in the photo. The syrup was made with water, light pancake syrup, strawberry jam from the Good Shepherd Convent in Baguio City and a few drops of red food coloring.
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sassy,
i never ever knew how to make crepes, i mean, the thin ones, maybe because i don’t have a really wide pan and i did not tilt it well?
*sigh
Kats, the best pan for making crepes is a non-stick pan.
And, yes, you have to tilt.
hi sassy! are crepes the same as the wrappers used in wrapping fresh lumpia or lumpiang ubod? Help!!!
pandan its very nice i make that in my country of course in pinas but here in egypt we dnt hve pandan.
gna, no, dessert crepes are sweeter although the texture is similar.
I wanted to make crepe but i thought it is difficult ,until i read this easy crepe recipe. I just tried it this afternoon and my kids love it and ask me to cook again tonight
thanks.
nana, even kids can make crepes. my daughters do quite often.
hi connie. i tried your crepe recipe using maya pancake mix. i think i saw this recipe in your “ala mode” blog. anyway, instead of strawberries, i used ripe mangoes (which is expensive these days–off season kc). i had trouble in cooking the crepe kc whenever i tilt the pan, i don’t get a smooth crepe– meaning, me mga parts that are thinner and other parts that are a bit thick and sometimes medyo parang pancake na ang dating…after cooking the crepe, placed it on a plate, squeezed chocolate syrup on the crepe, laid some strips of mangoes, folded the crepe, squeezed syrup ulit, topped with vanilla ice cream…TAHDAH! It’s almost a La Pinay Crepe in Cafe Breton (have you tried it?). But my husband and kid loved it…yun nga lang I should’ve used Hershey’s choco syrup instead of Ricoa (nagtitipid kc, haha). Anyway, i still am thankful for the recipe.. any suggestions how to make it more thin? thanks, more power. love your blogs.
add more water or milk, eiram. pancake mixes are of different consistencies — some need more liquid than others.
hey so “nakaka-inggit” i want to learn how to make that maja pancake, and so its looks like so nise to eat….. hope that its not hard to make
Thanks Connie. Im wanna try using peanut butter syrup. Do you think that i should still follow the same combinations of pancake syrup and water?
Mae, it depends on the kind of peanut butter you’re using (chunky? smooth? creamy?) I suggest using smaller proportions first until you get the consistency and sweetness you like.
Have fun. I haven’t made crepes in months. Maybe I should.