hello and welcome back to you in the
kitchen with Matt I am your host Matt
Taylor today I'm going to show you how
to make crepes or the French
pronunciation I believe is correct I had
a request on to make a video on crepes
so here we go
crepes are really easy to do if I can do
it you can do it well let's get started
first some people like to do this in a
blender so I got a blender here but I'm
gonna actually do this with a hand mixer
you can use a stand mixer if you want or
you can use a whisk but let's first
start off with two eggs one and a half
cups of milk this is 2% milk well you
could use 1% or whole milk if you like
one teaspoon of oil this is canola oil
or you could use vegetable oil also some
people like to substitute the oil with
butter take like a tablespoon of butter
and melt it and put it in there
alright I'm gonna blend this together
well and now I'm gonna add one cup of
all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon of
salt and that is the base batter for
crepes if you're gonna make a sweet
crepe what I like to do is I like to add
one teaspoon of vanilla extract and 1
tablespoon of granulated sugar if you're
making a savory crepe leave out the
vanilla extract leave out the sugar and
then add an extra 1/2 teaspoon of salt
mix this together
there we go now for some reason that's
pretty lumpy and can't get the lumps out
you can throw this through a strainer
now some people will chill this for
about an hour in the refrigerator I
don't do that I don't find it necessary
but you certainly can if you're having
trouble with your batter and now this
batter is ready to go all right I'm
going to turn the heat on the stove
between medium and medium-high and now I
just have a 8-inch nonstick skillet here
you they do have a crepe skillet that
you can buy I'll put a link down below
if you want to get one of those or they
also have these little crepe making kits
that you can get that are pretty cool
I'll put a link down below in the
description for those as well
now once your pan is getting heated up
I'm going to also take a little bit of
butter
not a whole lot I'm gonna put it in the
pan I have a ladle here and it holds
about a quarter cup worth of batter if
you don't have a ladle like this you can
just use a quarter cup if you want but
this works really nicely and then what I
do I'm going to come in here and grab
some batter I'm going to pour the pan or
tilt the pan lift it off the heat tilt
it up I'm just going here and pour this
in there and then tilt the pan like that
put it back on the heat and then this is
going to take oh about a minute minute
and a half on this side and what we want
it to do is we want it to get nice and
dry on top and then we're going to take
a spatula just come underneath here
oops
and flip it over like that I wasn't the
best flip and just like pancakes the
first one usually doesn't turn out the
best but that's okay you can still eat
it and then when we flip it over on this
side it's just going to be there for 10
20 seconds okay and if you look at this
side that's ideally what you like to see
these little blotches on there that
looks great I'm gonna go ahead and just
put it over here tilt it up get some
batter
turn it over
you can just go ahead and stack them up
on each other they're not they won't
stick all right now that our Papes are
done it's time to prepare them there's
so many different ways that you can make
a crepe you can do a sweet crepe which
is what I'm doing you're gonna do savory
totally up to you some of my favorite
toppings are strawberries Nutella
bananas a whipped cream Cool Whip honey
powdered sugar so many different
varieties drop a comment down below and
let me know what your favorite kind of
crepe is right now I'm gonna show you a
couple of my favorites and for this one
I'm just gonna do a classic you tella
one and so you just grab some Nutella
however much that you want I'm not gonna
put a ton on there for the really big
crepes that you get like at the crepe
shop usually what I've seen is they'll
take it and they'll fold it over like
that and then they'll fold it over one
more time like that so that's a cool way
to do one one of my favorite two ways
and you can top it off with powdered
sugar another favorite way of mine is
we'll grab some of this Cool Whip
I'm gonna line it with strawberries
hohohoho
strawberries love strawberries almost as
much as bacon all right and then on this
one I'm just going to fold that over and
then roll it up and then you can top it
off however you like so there's a couple
of my favorite ways to eat a crepe again
let me know what your favorite way is
all right our crepes are done yummy
really easy to do if I can do it
you can do it I'm Matt Taylor this has
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