Mini Crepe Stacks
Anything mini is automatically adorable. So take a crepe, cut out circles, and stack it with layers of deliciousness. Ladies and gents, we have a cuteness home run.
For this stack, I made my crepes - thin! none of this slightly thickened nonsense you see on some feeds (or restaurants…) - in a nonstick frying pan (correct, you don’t need a crepe pan to make crepes!). I cut out smaller circles from the cooled crepes, though feel free to shape to your heart’s (or that random drawer you keep all of your cutters) content, to make my stacks. Between my crepe layers, I alternated raspberry sauce, lemon curd, and chantilly cream. I know, I know, I’m fantastic.
You too can be fantastic, simply make the recipe below!
Equipment Needed:
Tall container, for blitzing without splattering
Whisk or electric mixer with whisk attachment
Plate, for stacking
Yields: 3, 2 ¼ inch circle stacks
Ingredients:
BATTER
1 whole - egg, room temperature
125g - Whole milk
15g - Caster sugar
Pinch salt (feels like one grain of rice)
12g - Butter, just melted
50g - AP Flour, sifted
25g - Butter, cubed
RASPBERRY SAUCE
2.5 cups (250g) frozen raspberries
¼ cup (25g) granulated sugar
½ lemon, juiced
CHANTILLY CREAM (whipped cream)
113g (½ cup) - Heavy Cream (Double Cream)
13g (4 ½ tsp) - Powdered Sugar, sifted
½ tsp - Vanilla Extract
Lemon Curd (make half of this recipe)
Directions:
CREPES
In a bowl, whisk together the egg, milk, sugar, and salt until no more bits of egg whites are floating around
In a pot, only just melt 12g butter - should be able to still touch the bottom of the pan with your hand. Butter should not be hot at all or it will either seize in your egg mixture or you risk scrambling your eggs.
Slowly stream butter into the egg mixture, whisking constantly
Add in all the sifted flour and whisk until just combined. Don’t over-whisk, you want a nice loose batter (not thick like pancakes).
Cover and let sit on the counter for 30 minutes or in the fridge overnight
Place a non-stick frying pan over medium heat and add a piece of the 25g butter and swirl around until the pan is nicely coated
Add a decent spoonful of batter into the pan and quickly swirl around until it coats the bottom of the pan in a nice, thin, even layer. Don’t pour too much batter into the pan otherwise, you will have a thicker crepe. You want these to be paper thin.
Look for no wet batter on top and then using a pallet knife, check to make sure the underneath looks golden brown before folding it in half and removing it from the pan.
Unfold onto a clean plate to cool.
Repeat until all batter is used. If you make crepes about six inches wide, you should get around eight crepes.
Once crepes have time to cool, stack them evenly one on top of the other.
Using your cutter, press down evenly to cut three sets of eight stacks of crepes.
Peel each layer apart and place onto a plate
RASPBERRY SAUCE
Place frozen raspberries in a pot over low heat. Stir until softened and juices begin to release.
Pour in your sugar and lemon juice, and stir to combine. Continue stirring until the sugar has dissolved.
Remove from heat and pour into a tall container (that your immersion blender can fit all the way to the bottom). Using your immersion blender, pulse until the mixture is mostly pulpy with no chunks.
Pour the mixture into a container through a fine-mesh strainer, scraping the bottom of the container to grab any excess sauce. You will likely still have some seeds in your sauce but if you want to eliminate them, strain the mixture again through the fine-mesh strainer, until no more seeds.
Store airtight in the fridge for 1-2 weeks, and in the freezer for up to 6 months.
CHANTILLY CREAM
Combine all ingredients together in a bowl. Using a whisk*, manually whisk from side to side or up and down. This whips without the extra effort of going round and round!
Your cream should become shiny and glossy as you whip.
Once cream becomes decently thick - still “soft” but not liquid - use a spatula to lightly stir for final thickness
LEMON CURD
This recipe is too good to beat, just cut it in half (unless you need a lot of lemon curd). You will still have some leftover, just store it in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer.
STACKING
Going layer by layer, place one of your cut crepe circles on a plate, add a layer of lemon curd, and smooth out, leaving a lip of space around the edge to avoid runoff. Add another crepe circle followed by a layer of raspberry sauce. Add another crepe circle followed by chantilly cream. Repeat until all crepes have been used. Top with a layer of chantilly cream.
Notes:
Make sure that you’re frying pan is nonstick. I have yet to see success with a regular pan, not to mention it’s just a hell of a lot easier to make these in a nonstick. The batter and resulting crepe are paper thin and personally, I don’t want to be scraping crepe dough from my pan after each one.
While you can use a mixer (standing or hand) be very careful to not overbeat your cream, you can’t come back from that. Overbeaten cream has a greasy flavor to it because the fats have started to solidify as you whip. Aka it’s not whipped cream and it’s not butter, it’s no bueno.
If you are placing your whipped cream in a piping bag, note that the pressure of squeezing the bag will also thicken the cream. If using a piping bag, I recommend whipping the cream slightly less and letting it thicken the remainder of the way in the bag.
If you need more or less cream, note that your sugar is 10% of the weight of your cream. This does require a little bit of (dare I say easy) math. So when using a scale, after you measure your cream multiply that weight by 10% (.10) and that is how much sugar you should sift out.
For example, for 100g of cream, you would only need 10g of powdered sugar
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