Black Forest Crepes

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 18 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1 cup whole milk or 1 cup half-and-half cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon melted butter
• 1/2 cup flour, plus
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 1/2 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 dash salt
• 1 tablespoon butter (for the crepe pan)
• cherry pie filling
• sweetened whipped cream (garnish)
• chocolate syrup (garnish)
• chocolate curls (garnish)
• mint sprig (garnish)

Recipe

• 1 combine eggs, milk, vanilla, and melted butter and whisk well; combine flour, cocoa, sugar, and salt and add to wet mixture; whisk thoroughly or beat with an immersion blender until smooth; cover batter and refrigerate for one to two hours.
• 2 remove batter from refrigerator and stir; you may, if necessary, thin batter by adding a little additional milk or you may thicken it by adding a bit of flour; heat a non-stick skillet (i recommend a 10" omelette pan) to medium-high heat and add 1/2 teaspoon butter to it.
• 3 pour 1/4 cup of batter into skillet and tilt so that a thin layer of batter coats the pan bottom in an 8-inch circle; cook crepe for 30-60 seconds until it appears dry and is just beginning to brown at edges; carefully loosen edges and turn crepe over; cook second side for another 30-60 seconds.
• 4 continue cooking crepes, adding 1/2 teaspoon butter to the skillet before each one; stack finished crepes with waxed paper between them ~ you may refrigerate or freeze them for later use or serve immediately.
• 5 to serve, place 2-3 tablespoons cherry pie filling across center of each crepe and roll tightly or fold crepe into quarters; place 2 filled crepes on each serving plate; garnish crepes with your choice of sweetened whipped cream, additional cherry pie filling, chocolate or cherry syrup, chocolate curls, and mint sprigs.
• 6 note: when garnishing my crepes i did not use chocolate syrup, but instead spooned a little cherry pie filling (no whole cherries) into a small plastic ziploc bag, snipped off its corner, and gently squeezed the filling through and onto my crepes.