Hi there and a huge welcome to Steve's kitchen I got asked the other day if I
made mille crepe before I think that was Hans on Facebook
yes I have made it means basically a thousand crepes
or a big pile of pancakes I'm going to take that idea today and
make my own recipe which you are going to absolutely love
I'm going to call it the chocolate pancake tower this is so simple
it will impress your friends come on let me show you how
I'm going to be making a flat crepe style pancake rather than the fluffy ones
so let's get and make our batter so come down here
I've just got one cup of all purpose flour and I'm going to sift it because I
don't want lumps in there
a couple of tablespoons of sugar this is a slightly sweet batter
going to pop eggs into there as well
whole eggs just going to add a tablespoon of oil in there as well
just a little pinch of salt and I've got two hundred mls thats a little under a cup of
full cream milk
just going to pop that in there as well and I want a little flavor in as well
so I'm going to use some vanilla bean paste you could use
vanilla extract just half a teaspoon and let's take a whisk
and just start to mix this up into a nice batter and what we going to do is just
leave that pancake batter
on the side for about 30 minutes just to allow it to absorb all the moisture
I'm going to be using a fairly small frying pan a little non-stick want to make
my pancakes
this one's about five inches now just come down here I'm going to pour the batter
now
into something that I can pour into the pan with now
I just love making pancakes it's one of the first things my kids learnt to make
just come down here put our pan on not a super high heat here
but you do want the pan to heat up a little bit before you start so the pan is up to
heat I'm just going to take some of my pancake batter
and pour it in the center there probably a
a few tablespoons then we're just going to shape it around a little bit like that
now you are going to notice after a few moments that the pancake batter starts
to dry
the center here is still wet now quite often the first pancake fails but this
one looks like it's going
okay just going to take a little spatula and spin it around just to release the
edges like that
and here is where the fun begins I just
give that little shake to loosen it off bring it back here
pop it over like that back down onto the heat
I'm just going to give it about 20 seconds on that side
little stir around bring it over to my plate
pop it down there get on and make
I want about 10 at least of these pancakes so
leave me to get on and make the rest of them and when I've done them all
come back and I'll show you what I have now look at those
I've got ten wonderful round crepes they do need to be about the same size
I'm going to leave these to completely cool down and we're going to make the filling
for our cake I'm going to be layering those pancakes with a filling between
I'm going to use a creme patisserie which I think tastes really good with this
if you don't want to make it you can always use cream or nutella
peanut butter whatever you like let me show you how to make the creme patisserie
very quickly now the first thing to do is just take a cup
a full cream milk into a small saucepan just pop that on the stove to heat up
in the meantime I've got three egg yolks 3 tablespoons of regular sugar
a tablespoon of all-purpose flour
half a tablespoon of cornstarch or corn flour
just going to add a splash of vanilla extract in there as well
take a whisk and just beat this up into a cream
that's what we're looking for a nice
even vanilla cream like that now you can see my milk has just started to come to
the boil
we don't want to cook these egg yolks off so what I'm going to do is whilst mixing
is put a little splash into the bowl
and this is just to temper the eggs and stop them from cooking
now what you going to do is just dribble this milk in nice and slowly
whilst you continue to whisk so that's
all the milk in there now just continue to whisk this through
just for a moment or so then I'm going to pour that back into my saucepan
and then using my ridiculously inappropriately small whisk
because I've lent my whisk out to somebody I'm just going to bring this back up to the heat
you do need to mix right in the corners and just maybe lift it off the heat a little
bit
and you want to continue to whisk this until it thickens
now you see that starting to thicken up there that is what we're looking for now
I'm going to take that off the heat now
and leave it to just to cool down a little bit on the side now here's a little tip
come down here this is basically just a custard now if you want
to stop a skin forming on the custard take a little bit of plain sugar
and sprinkle it over the top and that will stop it from forming a skin
and now we're going to assemble our pancakes tower I've got my first pancake
just popped it on a little cooling rack like this what I want to do is take the
creme patisserie or whatever you decide to use
going to pop a tablespoon or so on there
and we're going to use at small spatula and just spread it across
the top of the pancake try to get a nice even surface
like that then what I'm going to do is take the next pancake in the pile
going to turn it upside down because their little frilled edges are turning down
and I want them to face downwards
just going to pop that pancake evenly on top take
a little bit more of my creme patisserie and again
I'm just going to use the back of my spatula to flatten this
out now I'm going to continue and build this up
and you can come back in a moment and join me
now the last pancake of course we are not going to top so I'm just going to pop this
one on top of there
this time I'm putting it with the brown side up
there is our stack of pancakes now I want to leave those to cool down while I get on
and make a chocolate ganache Now this is simple just have a look here we have
200 grams of dark melting chocolate in a bowl
and I'm going to put a hundred milliliters about a hundred grams of a thick whipping
cream in there
what you have here is basically half cream to chocolate
this now goes in the microwave for about 30 seconds to a minute
the cream is going to heat up and melt the chocolate now in my microwave that is
just 60 seconds
the cream is now hot enough to have melted the little chocolate melts
just going to start to mix this together you will see you'll get a wonderful silky
ganache
see how beautiful that is it's as simple as that
now as this ganache is at the moment it a little bit too thin to coat
our
cake so I just want it to sit on the side here for about 45 minutes
to let it get a little bit firmer now underneath the pancakes I've put a pllate to
catch
any excess chocolate what I'm going to do now is just poor my ganache
over the top like so
and then using the back of a spoon I'm just going to ease it
over the edge and just let it trickle down we want to actually
caot the side of the pancakes as well
and you can take the spoon and just push it up against the side of
pancakes I do want to get a reasonable even coating so now I'm just using the
back of the spoon
letting the chocolate ooze over the edge here there we have it look still
dripping with chococlate
now I'm going to pop this in the fridge and let it set
Then I'll show you what we've got. Now I've given time for our chocolate
pancake tower to set a little bit just come down here because we've got to get
it off the rack
so I've got a couple of crank handle spatuals which I'm just going to slide
under the cake
and then we're just going to lift it
and I just want to gently pop this down onto a cutting board
now I've popped my knife into some hot water just to warm it I'm just going to dry it
off on a little bit a cloth we're going to take that hot knife
and we just going to cut down all the way through
out pancake cake I'll just clean off our knife again
get it nice and hot turn the board round and I'm going to cut this
into quarters and lastly and importantly
I'm going to cut myself a slice you can go
any size you like but just look how pretty
this is going to look just going to pull that out for a beautiful reveal
and there it is there is my chocolate tower pancake cake
so I think that's pretty as a picture I don't know about you but
I'm going to give this a try and let me see if I can just take a slice of this and
try it
for you
got to make sure I get some chocolate here goes
ah yummy that is absolutely delicious and with that
chocolate and that creme patisserie I'm getting a sort of profiterole taste
absolutely delicious anyway you guys clear of
let me have a little try of this I hope you've enjoyed it please give it a
thumbs up
if you have and if you decided to try it send me some pictures
I'd love to hear how you get on be good and I'll see you
in the next video cheers
so it's not a mille crepe it is not a pancake but it is
a lot of fun and very tasty to eat I'm going to leave some links up here to some
other videos of mine
and as always I love to hear your comments take care of yourself and
I'll see you in the next video be good