Chocolate Crêpes with Chestnut Cream

Name: Chocolate Crêpes with Chestnut Cream
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 45 min
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 250 ml/9 fl oz/1 cup double (heavy) cream; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 2 tbsp caster (granulated) sugar; 1 recipe quantity Double Chocolate Sauce; 1 egg, lightly beaten 300 ml/10½ fl oz/1¼ cups milk; 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp butter, melted, plus extra for cooking the creêpes; icing (confectioners’) sugar, sifted, for dusting; 200 g/7 oz canned, unsweetened chestnut purée; 1 egg, lightly beaten 300 ml/10½ fl oz/1¼ cups milk; 2 tsp caster (granulated) sugar; 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted; 150 g/5½ oz/1 cup plus 2 tbsp plain (all-purpose) flour

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Everybody Loves Chocolate

By Jennifer Donovan

Published 2024

About

Ingredients

150 g/5½ oz/1 cup plus 2 tbsp

Europe
France
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

In a large bowl, combine the flour, cocoa and caster sugar, stirring with a wooden spoon. In a clean bowl, beat together the egg, milk and melted butter together using a hand whisk. Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and pour in half the liquid mixture. Mix well with a wooden spoon, adding the remaining liquid as required so that the batter resembles thin cre