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French Crêpes

4.4/5 rating (17 votes)
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes
  • Serves: 3
  • Complexity: easy
French Crêpes

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Ingredients

  • Ingredients for the Crêpes
  • 3/4 cup of flour
  • 1 cup of milk
  • 3 large eggs
  • 4 tablespoons of butter
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract (optional)
  • A pinch of salt
  • Ingredients for the Fillings
  • Crêpe Suzette: sugar + lemon juice
  • Choco-Banane: banana slices + chocolate sauce
  • Nutty: honey + nuts
  • Be creative and feel free to use the fillings of your choice!

Directions

  1. Steps for making the Crêpe batter:
    1- Bring the milk to a boil.  
    2- Once the milk is boiling add the butter.
    3- In a bowl, mix all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, and pinch of salt).
    4- In a separate bowl, beat the 3 eggs.
    5- Incorporate the flour mixture into the eggs.
    6- Slowly add the hot milk and butter to the eggs and flour mixture. You will obatin a very liquid batter.

  2. Steps for cooking the Crêpe batter:
    Note: You will need a non-stick pan preferably reserved for only making crêpes.
    1- Heat the pan on high heat before starting to make the crêpes.
    2- Once the pan is hot, spread the crêpe batter by rotating the pan in a circular motion.
    3- Let the crêpe cook for few minutes in one side before flipping it to the other side. The crêpe should have a golden color.

  3. Final steps:
    Fill the crêpes with your favorite filling and serve warm. Enjoy!

Comments (7)

  • zineb
    zineb
    31 August 2010 at 18:11 |

    can you tell me please one cup is how many ml or grams?
    regards

    • Tasha
      Tasha
      05 June 2012 at 05:11 |

      A metric cup is defined as 250 millilitres.
      One US cup = 236.5 milliliters.

  • Zane
    Zane
    13 July 2011 at 23:28 |

    I love this recipe. I just tried this morning and worked out perfectly! Its amazing and easy recipe, thank you so much!

  • Aisha
    Aisha
    04 August 2011 at 01:42 |

    Is that self rising or plain...

    • Alia
      Alia
      04 August 2011 at 04:21 |

      just plain.

  • Ara
    Ara
    11 September 2011 at 19:20 |

    si je dis tres, tres bonnes, c'est peu. merci Alia pour la belle recette. Toute tes recettes d'abord sont excellentes et me reusissent parfaitement.

  • Najiba
    Najiba
    26 January 2012 at 03:12 |

    Just tried this recipe today and it came out perfect! everyone loved it and it was such a simple and easy recipe. Thank You

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