Name: Les Crêpes Surprises
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: For 4 People
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Milk (1 cup); All-purpose flour (⅓ cup); Kirsch dry cherry brandy, not a sweet liqueur (4 ounces or 2 jiggers); Confectioners’ sugar (¾ cup); Almonds, blanched and slivered (¼ lb.); Egg yolks (3, from large eggs); Butter (7 Tb); One batch of Crèpe Batter (as described in Pannequets au Fromage)

Preparation info

For
4
People

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
5 min

Appears in

The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth

By Roy Andries De Groot

Published 1973

About

Mademoiselle Ray’s surprise is the fluffy filling, strongly flavored with dry cherry brandy and textured with lightly burned almonds. (See menu and wines.)

Ingredients

Staple Items

One batch of Crèpe Batter (as described in Pannequets au Fromage)

Method

Prepare the batter exactly as described for Les Pannequets au Fromage, but this time, since these are dessert crêpes, also beat into the batter 3 teaspoons of the sugar. Let batter rest.

About 45 Minutes Before Serving–Preparing the Pastry Cream in About 20