Yum…Easy Homemade Crepes and Crepe Party Ideas are one of our favourite break-the-dinner-routine meals. Turn it into a crepe party (or set up a crepe self-serve bar). This is my go to easy homemade crepes recipe…
Confession: this recipe is hand written on a green post-it note (with no title or reference to what it is) in my family recipe book. I refer to my easy homemade crepes recipe as the green post-it recipe.
Easy Homemade Crepes Recipe
- 3 cups pastry flour
- 6 eggs
- 3 cups of milk
- 3/4 tsp salt (or a pinch – whatever you prefer to measure)
- 1 tsp sugar (this makes sweet crepes)
- 1 tsp melted butter (optional)
- 1 tsp rum (optional)
- 1/4 water (optional)
Ask how many crepes this recipe makes and the answer is: never enough!But it will fill a family of 5 nicely.
Prep time: 1 hour Cooking time: 30 minutes
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, eggs, milk, salt and sugar. Use a whisk to mix it. Mix until there are no lumps (it should be more liquid than pancake batter – if you find it thick add 1/4 cup of water to thin it out).
Add in rum and melted butter. Don’t worry the alcohol will burn off during cooking (kid-friendly recipe).
Cover the crepe batter and let sit for 1 hour.
Heat crepe pan on stove top (a skillet or frying pan will do as well) to medium heat. Once hot (and not before), ladle one scoop of crepe batter into the hot pan. Swirl the crepe batter around (move crepe pan in circular motion with your hand to distribute the batter). And than leave to cook on one side (2-3 minutes).
Once the edges start to pull away from the crepe pan flip the crepe over to cook on the other side (I use a thin silicone spatula for flipping). Allow the crepe to cook 2-3 minutes more.
Once golden brown on both sides – flip the crepe on to a plate. And continue making crepes.
Crepe party ideas…
- self-serve crepe bar
- crepes instead of birthday cake
- crepe filling pot luck party
- brunch
Sweet Crepe Filling Inspiration (family friendly)…
- melted chocolate
- jam
- Nutella
- Sugar
- maple syrup
- bananas
- brownies (you might like to try my Best Brownies Recipe Ever)
I’ve always wanted to learn to make crepes. I love eating them at restaurants but always assumed they were too complicated to make myself. You make them seem pretty easy and something I can actually do myself. I would like to make them with sweet cream cheese filling and then put berries on top. Totally yummy!
I watched French chef Jacque Pepin makes crepes but still have yet to attempt them myself. I love how versatile they can be!
These sound like a fun brunch idea!
This is such a delicious breakfast idea. I will have to get the ingredients i need to make this on the weekend.
I( have not had crepes since i was a little girl. My family would love a crepe party. I will have to give it a try.
What a neat idea. When I was in Vegas, they had a crepe storefront in the Paris that offer savory or sweet crepes. They looked SO good.
What an awesome recipe. In Kansas the military would hold big brunches with crape bars.everyone loved them.
Thanks for sharing this post,i really need to try and make those !!
I have never made crepes and I don’t know why, they don’t seem hard to make at all, I would like to make my granddaughter the crepe cake, gotta love tons of crepe layers!!
Great ideas
Crepes are such and easy and beautiful thing, so delicious! Thank you for the recipe.
My daughter and I bake together all the time but one thing we have never attempted to make is Crepes! I am not sure why but thank you, we will try out this recipe!!
When we were in Cuba for our honeymoon I lived off crepes!! It was the first time I had ever had one and they were amazing made fresh with lots of fresh fruit!! I have tried to make at home but they are super hard!! You have to be fast so they don’t burn and not to thin cause they will tear when you flip!! There is a knack for doing them and I din’t have it unlike the serves on the resort who had it mastered!!
My uncle is French & taught our family how to make crepes when I was a kid. We used to make them quite frequently but now as an adult I’ve just gotten away from them & not sure why. I love your ideas above with using nutella or brownies!
My grandchildren have been asking me to make these as one of their friends mom made them and they loved them.I am going to try them.Thank you.
I have struggled with crepes in the past. I think that I need to give them a go again. Thanks for sharing this.
I have never been able to master the art of crepe making
Yummy, I love crepes, especially ones filled with fruit.
I haven’t tried making Crepes at home…I am soon now!
There was a restaurant over the border that made these amazing hot fudge banana crepes… they were so good! I’ve never had any as good as that! It must have been the hot fudge because I’ve had others that just didn’t compare – it was good enough to drive 3 hours for!