Crepes (412)

Yesterday, February 9, if you did not know was Mardi Gras aka Fat Tuesday. One of my classes is French so we had a party during class where we made crepes. Yummtastic. I have it second hour so it was like a second breakfast. I was so excited to have a break and just have a class period to chill. Right now we have foreign exchange student that is from France, so she came into our class and had crepes with us. We all signed up for bringing in items that we wanted to have on our crepes. Crepes are kind of like pizza's where they are so versatile. You can have fruit, chocolate, or meats. So get creative with it. My teacher has an electric crepe maker which is what we used, it was super easy.

Our teacher gave us a batter recipe which, if we were bringing batter we had to use it. I didn't have to make it but it looks super simple.

1 cup all-purpose flour
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup water
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons butter or margarine, melted

Place ingredients in blender in the order given, then blend until smooth. You can also stir by hand.

For cooking the crepes, like I mentioned early we used an electric crepe maker for the efficiency and easiness for a classroom. You can make then on a stove or whatever you have. For the electric crepe maker we had, all you had to do was (after it was heated) dip the flat surface in the batter. Then after a while, you just flip it. It only takes a few seconds, really simple and easy.

For the toppings you can add whatever you want. We had a lot of sweeter items. I put banana and blueberry's on for fruit. Also Cool Whip, sugar, and powdered sugar. Then drizzled chocolate syrup on top of it. It looked really pretty. You can also try Nutella, strawberry's, chocolate chips, etc. Crepes are so easy and you can add whatever you want.

One of my dreams is traveling the world. That means someday doing to France. I think it would be so cool to go to a Crepe Shop and have some really authentic ones. I have had then in Mexico and Dominican Republic though. However that isn't same as France. So try to make some on your own, and get creative with it. They are so easy and simple. So have some fun with them.