These crepes are easy to make and perfect for filling with sweet or savory fillings.
Course Breakfast and Brunch
Cuisine French
Keyword crêpes, crêpes recipe, easy crêpe recipe
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 20 minutesminutes
Servings 10Crêpes
Calories 127kcal
Author Robin Donovan
Ingredients
1cupall-purpose flour
2large eggs
1cupmilk
¼cupwater
¼teaspoontable salt
2tablespoonsunsalted buttermelted
Vegetable oilvegetable oil spray, or butter for cooking
Instructions
In a large bowl, blend flour, eggs, milk, water, salt, and melted butter together using an electric mixer until smooth. (Alternatively, batter can be blended in a food processor, blender or stand mixer. You can even whisk the batter vigorously by hand, but you need to take great care to smooth out all the lumps.)
Heat a lightly oiled or buttered 9- or 10-inch pan over medium heat. (If using a good non-stick pan you can skip the oil/butter step.)
Using a ¼-cup scoop, ladle batter into the center of the hot pan while simultaneously tilting the pan in all directions, in a circular motion, so that the batter spreads out evenly over the bottom.
Cook until the top of the crepe loses its shine and the bottom is dry and very lightly browned, about 1 minute, then turn with a spatula and cook the other side the same way (but for a slightly shorter time).
Add more oil or butter and continue until all the batter has been used, stacking cooked crepes on a platter to await their filling. Stir up the batter occasionally during the crepe-making process to prevent it from settling unevenly.
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Notes
1. Good news for people who like to get prep work out of the way: Crepe batter may be made a day in advance and kept, covered, in the refrigerator. 2. Or, if you want to make the crepes themselves in advance, stack them in a pile and store them in an airtight container in the fridge for a couple of days or the freezer for a couple of weeks.3. To reheat, wrap the stack in aluminum foil, and heat in a 350° oven until heated through, about 10 to 15 minutes.