Caramel Apple Crepes

Submitted by Galley Wench

"Read direction thoroughly before beginning, noting that raisins need to soak for 30 minutes."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 19
• Yields: 12 small crepes
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• Crepes

• 1 cup flour
• 1 1⁄2 cups milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• nonstick cooking spray

• Filling

• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 3⁄4 cup whipping cream (unwhipped)
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 1⁄2 cups tart apples, peeled, cored and very thinly sliced
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄8 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1⁄4 cup raisins
• 2 tablespoons apple brandy or 2 tablespoons rum
• 1⁄2 cup pecan pieces, toasted
• 1⁄4 cup powdered sugar
• vanilla ice cream

directions

1. Place 1/4 cup raisins in small bowl and add 2 tablespoons of rum or brandy. Set aside.

2. Crepes:

3. Combine flour, milk, eggs, oil and salt; beat until smooth and lump free.
4. Heat a small skillet or crepe pan, spray with non-stick oil and remove from heat.
5. Spoon in 2 Tbsp batter; tilt skillet to spread evenly.
6. Return to heat; brown on one side.
7. Invert pan over paper towel to remove.
8. Repeat with remaining batter.

9. Apple Filling:

10. In a heavy small saucepan melt butter, add brown sugar; cook and stir over medium-high heat until sugar is dissolved and creamy. Remove from heat. Slowly and carefully stir in whipping cream (mixture will bubble up).
11. Set aside.
12. Toss apple slices with lemon juice, cinnamon and nutmeg.
13. Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add apple slices; cook, uncovered, for 4 to 6 minutes until tender, stirring occasionally. Add raisins and 1/4 of the caramel sauce.
14. Top crepes (browned side down) with apple mixture and fold (browned side is now showing). Place 2-3 crepes on individual serving dishes; top with pecans and dust with powdered sugar.
15. Serve with ice cream with caramel sauce drizzled over top.

Reviews

[Crystal W]

Yum!

 

[wicked cook 46]

These were so YUMMY but there is not enough apple filling and to much caramel sauce we found. I added a splash of Grand Marnier and brandy to the crepe batter and also to the raisins and another splash while the apples were cooking. I toasted the pecans but forgot to add them LOL Guess i will just have to make them again LOL Made for ZWT 5 for team Zaar Chow Hounds

 

[Stephanie Y.]

Delightful! This was kind of like a cross between a caramel apple and rum raisin ice-cream. I used med-low heat to cook the crepes and also soaked the raisins in the rum. I only wished there was a little more apple filling as it was so good! A great Recipe Galley Wench :)

 

[anme7039]

Very good recipe. Since this is the normal recipe I use when I make my crepes, I just used some thawed left over frozen crepes I have made before. I also did not use heavy cream, used skim milk to try to ligthen it up and it worked out great. Also I may have missed it, but it does not state what to soak the rasins in.... but I hate rasins so I skipped that part anyways. The carmel sauce was devine tho, I plan on using it again to top ice cream with. Great recipe to impress people with.