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Mini Crepe Cakes

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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes
Servings 3 stacks
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine French
These mini crepe cakes are delicate, layered desserts featuring paper-thin crepes filled with tangy lemon curd, sweet raspberry sauce, and whipped cream. Perfect for brunch, parties, or special occasions!

Equipment

  • Nonstick frying pan
  • Spatula
  • 2 ¼ -inch circle cutter
  • Medium Pot
  • Immersion Blender
  • Tall container, for blitzing without splattering
  • Fine Mesh Strainer
  • Measuring Cups
  • Digital Scale
  • Mixing Bowl
  • Mixer

Ingredients

CREPES
  • 1 egg room temperature
  • 125 g whole milk
  • 15 g sugar
  • Pinch salt
  • 12 g butter melted and slightly cooled
  • 50 g flour sifted
  • 25 g unsalted butter cubed
FILLINGS
  • 2.5 cups frozen raspberries
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ lemon juiced
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • 4 ½ tsp powdered sugar sifted
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • lemon curd see notes for recipe

Instructions

CREPES

  • In a bowl, whisk together the egg, milk, sugar, and salt until no more bits of egg whites are floating around
  • Slowly stream melted 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 bowl through a fine-mesh strainer, scraping the bottom of the container to grab any excess sauce.
  • Store airtight in the fridge for 1-2 weeks, and in the freezer for up to 6 months.

WHIPPED CREAM

  • Combine all ingredients together in a bowl. Using a whisk or a mixer whip your cream until lightly fluffy

LEMON CURD

  • Make this recipe for homemade lemon curd, 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.

ASSEMBLY

  • 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 whipped cream. Repeat until all crepes have been used. Top with a layer of whipped cream.

Notes

*You can easily make your own homemade lemon curd or buy it from the store already made.
*Make sure that your 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 not to overbeat your cream. You can’t come back from that. Over-beaten 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.
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