Easy Homemade Crepes From Scratch - Thin Breakfast Pancakes

Easy homemade crepes from scratch makes simple yet delicious breakfast, brunch or snack! You may enjoy it plain or with toppings or crepe fillings as you like!

Course Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine American, French

Keyword easy crepes, homemade crepes

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 15

Total Time 20

Servings

Calories 151kcal

Author PA

Ingredients

1 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
4 tablespoons sugar
1.5 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

To make crepe batter:

Place the flour in a large bowl. Add baking powder to the flour and mix well to combine evenly with the flour.
Beat the eggs in a different large bowl.
Add sugar to the beaten eggs and stir well to dissolve.
Add vanilla extract and milk also to the egg sugar mixture, stir well to combine!
Now slowly add the prepared egg milk sugar mixture to the dry flour mixture, stir well using a large spoon so all ingredients are well mixed to form the crepe batter.
It is ideal if the batter is smooth to make the best crepes, so if needed you should mix the batter very well to avoid any large lumps of flour in the batter.
However, while making crepe batter or pancake batter, a little bit of tiny lumps in the flour is fine too but you may run the batter through the blender to make a smooth batter to make it more better if you wish!
Once the crepe batter is formed, let us make the crepes.

To make the crepes:

It is best to use a good quality large sized non stick pan to make crepes, for the perfect smooth texture. You can also use good quality iron skillets (as I have done here), but I have noticed that the crepes tend to develop some brown spots when using skillets. If you do not want the brown spots, it is best to use a non stick pan.
To make the crepes, heat & grease a good quality large sized non stick pan with little butter (or use iron skillet). It is also important not to use a lot of butter since the batter of crepes is thin and it will result in the batter not spreading correctly. It is best to just grease the pan with a little butter so the melted butter is not flowing across the pan.
Once the pan is heated & greased with butter, pour about two ladles of thin crepe batter and slightly swirl around or using the ladle, simply spread the batter slightly thin to spread.
Cook in medium heat for about a minute, then carefully flip the crepe using a good quality spatula and cook the other side too for about a minute.
If you do not want to flip, you can cover the pan or skillet with a lid and let the crepe cook in the steam for a more softer texture!
Crepes cook pretty quickly, so make sure to watch out to avoid burning the crepe.
Once the crepe is cooked, transfer it to a serving plate.
Similarly cook all crepes until the batter is over.
Serve with powdered sugar, maple syrup, honey, whipped cream etc or use any fillings like fresh fruits (sliced bananas, fresh berries etc), cream cheese, jams or fruit spreads, nutella etc and roll up and enjoy as you like!

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