Chocolate crêpes with caramel bananas

Mon, 16 Feb 2015

The trick to making a good pancake batter is to make it in advance. This gives the gluten time to relax and makes the batter much easier to work with. I have added cocoa to this batter but feel free to leave it out if you just want a plain crêpe. The addition of melted butter to the batter makes it crisp. The caramelised bananas are delicious with ice cream anytime.

Helen James


Ingredients


  • Makes 12x 8” crêpes
  • Crêpes
  • ¾ cup (100g) flour
  • Pinch of salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tbsp melted butter, cooled
  • 1¼ cup (300ml) milk
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder

  1. 1. Mix the flour, salt and eggs with a whisk until you get a stiff mixture.
  2. 2. Add a little milk and whisk vigorously to remove any lumps.
  3. 3. Add the remaining milk and whisk into a smooth batter.
  4. 4. Place in the fridge for at least 3 hours

Helen James


Bananas


Ingredients


  • 4 large bananas (ripe but not too ripe)
  • 2 tbsp vanilla sugar
  • 6 tbsp heavy cream
  1. 1. Pre-heat the oven to 190˚C.
  2. 2. Peel bananas and lay into dish.
  3. 3. Sprinkle with vanilla sugar and pour over the cream.
  4. 4. Bake in the oven for 30 mins.

Helen James



To make your crêpe

  1. 1. Heat the pan until very hot.
  2. 2. Spray with oil or a little butter.
  3. 3. Pour batter (about ¼ cup) into centre of pan and swirl batter to coat the pan.
  4. 4. Cook for 2-3 mins, then flip and cook for 1-2 mins on the other side. You can bake off all the crêpes and keep them warm in the oven.
  5. 5. To serve, fold a crêpe on a plate and place with sliced banana, pour over some of the caramel cream from the bananas (if a lot of the cream has evaporated you can pour a little extra cream into the banana dish and whisk through). I also added my Considered Belgian chocolate for extra decadence!

Helen James

Let me know if you make these and how you get on #consideredbyhj


Products used: Bowery Square3532101 Waffle Tea Towel3511107 Mercer Plate (med)3540104 Mercer Bowl (sml)3540106 Rose Syrup3512108 Raspberry & Rose Jam3520110