Fruit N Cream Crepes Recipes

CREAMY STRAWBERRY CREPES

Steps:

• Place the eggs, milk, water, melted butter, flour, and salt in the pitcher of a blender; blend until smooth.
• Blend the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest, and vanilla with an electric mixer until smooth. Gently fold in the whipped cream.
• Heat a lightly oiled griddle or non-stick skillet over medium heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 2 tablespoons for each crepe. Tip and rotate pan to spread batter as thinly as possible. Flip over when the batter is set and the edges are beginning to brown. Cook until the other side begins to brown. Stack finished crepes on a plate, cover with a damp towel and set aside.
• To serve, fill each crepe with 1/4 cup sliced strawberries and 1/3 cup of the cream cheese filling, roll up and top with a small dollop of the cream cheese filling and more sliced strawberries.

BERRIES AND CREAM CREPES

Steps:

• Add all the ingredients for your crepes to a blender. Cover.
• Blend on low speed until everything is mixed together well, and smooth.
• Place the batter in an airtight container and place it in fridge for at least one hour, up to overnight. **
• In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, with the sugar and vanilla extract until it is smooth. Set it aside
• Whip your heavy cream in a large bowl until stiff peaks have formed.
• Fold the whipped cream and cream cheese mixture together till smooth. Refrigerate till needed.
• Mix together the berries, sugar and cornstarch in a bowl of in a pot.
• Heat the berries in the small pot over medium low until the juices start to run, and a saucy mixture is created. Set aside till needed.
• Heat a large nonstick skillet, and spray with nonstick spray over medium heat.
• Pour about 1/4 cup batter into the pan and swirl around to spread it thinly to the edges.
• Cook for 1 minute until the edges start to crisp.
• Flip the crepe over and cook for another 20-30 seconds.
• Stack the crepes and cover while you cook the remaining crepes.
• Fill each crepe with about 1/4 cup cream cheese mixture, and 2 TBS berry sauce.
• Roll up and serve.

FRUIT 'N' CREAM CREPES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the first 7 ingredients. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour., In an 8-in. nonstick skillet, melt 1 teaspoon butter. Stir batter; pour about 2 tablespoons into the center of skillet. Lift and tilt pan to evenly coat bottom. Cook until top appears dry; turn and cook 15-20 seconds longer. Remove to a wire rack. Make 3 more crepes, adding remaining butter to skillet as needed., For filling, in a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth. Spread 1 rounded tablespoon on each crepe; top with 1/4 cup fruit and roll up. Sprinkle with remaining confectioners' sugar.

CREPES FRUITS DE MER

Steps:

• Heat white sauce and add wine. Flour flounder and shake off excess flour. Heat butter in large pan, add floured fish, then add crayfish, tomatoes and oysters. Toss gently in the butter, move foods to one side of pan, pour over warmed brandy and light. Stir seafood into flames. Pour over 1 1/2 cups of sauce to douse flames. Add shrimp. In separate pan add some clarified butter and toss mushrooms with lemon juice and a pinch of cayenne. Add the seafood. Lay pancakes on warmed serving dish, place a large tablespoonful of mixture into the center. Fold over either side and turn whole filled pancake upside down. Continue in this manner until all pancakes are filled. Add 1 tablespoon of the cheese to the remaining sauce, spoon sauce over pancakes, dust surface with remaining cheese and place under grill to brown. Serve dusted with cayenne pepper and finely chopped parsley. Serve accompanied by lemon wedges.

STRAWBERRY FRUIT DIP AND CREPES FILLING

Steps:

• Pour strawberries into a microwave safe bowl and thaw in microwave (about 2 1/2 minutes, tossing every 30 seconds), or let them sit in the frig overnight to thaw.
• Cut berries into 1/2-inch pieces; set aside.
• Cube cream cheese into a medium mixing bowl: add powdered sugar and vanilla.
• Using whisk beaters, mix on medium speed until fluffy.
• Remove bowl from mixing stand.
• Pour strawberries and any accumulated liquid over creamy mixture and fold in.
• until completely mixed.
• Optional: blend berries in blender or food processor before folding into cream to make a smooth dip.
• Serving suggestions: Toss with fruit to make a fruit salad; serve with dessert crepes, pancakes or waffles, either as filling or topping; pour over vanilla ice cream; use as the cream element for a smoothie; spoon over chunks of sponge cake; use as a dip for cookies, fruit, broken pieces of ice cream cone; etc.

QUICK N' EASY FRUIT CREPES

Steps:

• Spray non-stick on pan, and heat on medium heat.
• Combine all ingredients in a measuring cup.
• When pan is ready (water droplets thrown on it should sizzle), pour on crepe batter until desired size. (Swivel the pan a little to spread out the batter a bit).
• Once the edges have changed colour and firmed up, flip the crepe and leave on the other side for about 10 seconds.
• Cover with fruit topping and whipped cream.
• Fruit Topping Suggestion: Combine frozen fruit in pot with water and sugar (You can use fresh fruit too, I just happen to have a lot of frozen fruit handy.).
• Heat on medium high heat (while you are making the crepes).
• When it's heated you can either leave as is or puree it.