March 22: National Bavarian Cream Crepes Day

First of all, I would like everyone to know that Bavarian Cream Crepes auto-corrects to Barbarian Cream Creeps. Several of my friends were quite alarmed as they tried to figure out how I was going to celebrate Barbarian Cream Creeps day.

I knew today was going to be successful because, well, CREPES! YUM! Let's just say that the crepes part was successful, but the Bavarian cream part, well not so much.

Crepe Recipe:

Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup water
- 2/3 cup flour
- pinch of salt

Instructions:
1. Mix all ingredients together and let sit for about 30 minutes. (This allows the gluten to relax which adds to the taste, apparently).
2. Make sure your pan is really hot and greased before pouring in 1/4 cup of batter. Swish the pan around so there is a think layer of batter. Let cook for about 1 minute and then flip and let cook for another minute.

Easy right?

Now for the Bavarian Cream part...

Bavarian Cream:

Ingredients:
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup half and half
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons vanilla

Instructions:
1. Beat all the ingredients together except for the vanilla in a microwaveable bowl.
2. Heat in the microwave for about 8 minutes, stirring every minute, until thick and creamy.
3. Add vanilla. Set aside to thicken.

See? Only 3 easy steps. Except not. What happened to me (well first of all the mixture kept over flowing in the microwave so every minute I had to clean up a little mess. I didn't have a very big microwaveable bowl), is that the egg started cooking. I ended up with a thin egg-y mixture. It wasn't thick and creamy. It also smelled strongly of egg. I wasn't going to dare put a thin egg-y mixture on top of my beautiful crepes. So what did I do? I threw that bad boy out and decided to make chocolate whipped cream instead. I mean, it's still a cream, it may not be Bavarian, but it is chocolate!

See? Thin and egg-y! YUCK.

A small overflow in the microwave which I cleaned up immediately (MOM!)

Chocolate Whipped Cream:

Ingredients:
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder

Instructions:
1. Beat all ingredients together until you have a whipped cream consistency.


I then put a little of the chocolate whipped cream on a crepe, topped with raspberries, rolled them up, sprinkled a little powdered sugar on top to be fancy, and there you go! Delicious (non)Bavarian Cream crepes!