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In the recipe for a tiramisu crepe cake, airy crepes are filled with a creamy mascarpone filling with coffee and amaretto flavor and dusted with cocoa.
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If you can't decide between wafer-thin pancakes and airy tiramisu for dessert, you'll get your money's worth with a mille crepe cake.
What do crepes and tiramisu have in common?
At first glance, not so much, but
at least both are popular desserts that are eaten all over the world.
French crepes are thin pancakes made from flour, milk, eggs and butter.
They can be filled sweet or savory.
The most popular sweet fillings include nut nougat cream, applesauce, jam or fruit.
Ham, cheese, spinach or mushrooms are popular for savory fillings, which are particularly delicious in combination with herb pancakes.
And tiramisu?
Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made from ladyfingers, espresso, mascarpone and cocoa powder and can be found on almost every Italian restaurant menu.
But not only the classic is very popular, but also a refreshing version with lemon or a sweet banana bread tiramisu.
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In summary, they are two sweet dishes that combine great national pride.
So why not combine both delicacies into one unusual dessert?
The result is a tiramisu crepe cake that is the perfect combination of French and Italian cuisine.
You can make the absolute eye-catcher on the cake table in the form of a tiramisu crepe cake like this:
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For a sweet pancake cake with tiramisu filling you need these ingredients:
Crepes:
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200g flour
50g sugar
0.25 tsp salt
4 eggs
2 egg yolks
120 g butter, soft
500 ml milk
Tiramisu cream:
250 g whipped cream
300 g cream cheese
200g powdered sugar
50g cocoa
1 tsp instant espresso powder
40ml Amaretto
Preparing a tiramisu crepe cake is easy thanks to these step-by-step instructions:
For the crepes:
Mix the flour, sugar, salt, eggs, egg yolk, soft butter and milk into a smooth batter.
Let the dough rest for about 30 minutes.
For the tiramisu cream:
In the meantime, beat the cold whipped cream with the beaters of a hand mixer until stiff.
Mix the cream cheese, powdered sugar, cocoa, espresso powder and Amaretto until creamy and carefully fold in the whipped cream.
Refrigerate until ready to use.
Heat a non-stick pan.
Pour the batter into the pan in portions, spread it very thinly and fry the crepes for about two minutes per side.
Gradually bake about 14 crepes from the dough.
Let cool down.
For the tiramisu crepe cake:
To stack the cake, place the first crepe on a cake plate and spread thinly with a tablespoon of the tiramisu cream.
Place the next crepe on top and spread the cream again.
Continue like this until all the crepes are used up.
If desired, dust every third layer with cocoa powder.
Pour the remaining tiramisu cream into a piping bag and decorate the top crepe with small dots of cream and finally dust with cocoa.
Chill for at least two hours before serving.
This tiramisu crepe cake is a real treat for all fans of Italian and French cuisine.
The simple recipe is available here.
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La Chandeleur – the day of the crepes
The sweet recipe for the unusual crepe cake is particularly suitable for February 2nd, the day of the crepes.
“La Chandeleur” is a French holiday where crepes are traditionally eaten.
“La Chandeleur” probably has its origins in the Christian tradition, is always celebrated 40 days after Christmas Eve and is also known as “Maria Candlemas”.
But pagan influences can also be associated with the holiday and so the day also symbolized the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
So what does this have to do with crepes?
Quite simply: French pancakes symbolize the sun.
And so (not only) in France, crepes are diligently turned in the pan on February 2nd to encourage the sun to shine again and usher in the long-awaited spring.
By the way, a crepe cake is also called a mille crepe cake because it consists of many thin layers of crepes filled with creams or other ingredients.
The French word “mille” means “thousand,” and the cake’s name refers to the many layers that make it up.
The actual number of layers can vary depending on the recipe, but it is usually at least ten layers and there is no upper limit.
Have fun stacking!
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