the Grimoire

A crêpe cake with three types of crêpes: dark brown sugar, light brown sugar and cacao, thin layers of hazelnut filling and a dark ganache cover.

Ingredients

CRÊPES
3x 140G FLOUR
3x 200ML MILK
3x 2 EGGS
50G DARK BROWN SUGAR
50G LIGHT BROWN SUGAR
50G CACAO

FILLING
100ML CREAM
200ML NUTTY SPREAD, or store-bought hazelnut paste
100G CHOCOLATE

Method

  1. Dark brown crêpes: combine 140g flour with the dark sugar, 2 eggs and 200ml milk. Whisk until you have a smooth lumpless batter. Heat a non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Use a ladle to pour some batter on the pan, swirling it around until there is a fine layer of batter over the whole surface of the pan. Once you notice the crêpe isn’t liquid anymore and the bottom has a nice golden colour, flip it. If you are brave enough, you can do this with a ninja move like in the gif here below. If you want to play it safe, you can use a palette knife. After ten seconds, your first crêpe is done. Repeat until you’re out of batter.
  2. Light brown crêpes: repeat step one but with light brown sugar. Want to go nuts? Swap the regular milk with your favourite nut milk: almonds, hazelnut,…
  3. You guessed it: repeat step 1 but now with the cacao.
  4. For the filling, heat up the hazelnut paste with 50ml cream to get a liquid filling.
  5. Stack the crêpes on top of each other with a thin layer of filling in between. With a chef’s knife you can cut the stack of round crêpes into a rectangle to resemble a book. Keep it in the fridge while you make the chocolate ganache.
  6. I used the easy way to melt the dark chocolate with the rest of the cream: the microwave. Be careful to not burn the chocolate: melt it in 30s intervals. Once you have thick shiny ganache, pour it over the stack of crêpes and enjoy!

Crêpe cakes, bestseller among my wizard customers! It reminds me of that time when a group of mischievous apprentices stole the personal spellbook of their professor of Transmutation. The whole school was overrun by giant snails sliming up the walls, human-sized frogs wreaking havoc in the kitchen and wasps the size of your head terrorizing the freshmen in the dormitories. They shrunk the professors and put them on the windowsill. The poor guys were nearly eaten by magpies!

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