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The Best Crêpe Recipe (without using all your eggs)

Crêpe recipe that only uses 4 eggs! Very easy to make with detailed tutorial!
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine French
Servings 36 crêpes

Equipment

  • measuring cups
  • whisk
  • 2 large bowls
  • bowl to melt butter in if using a microwave
  • pan
  • spatula

Ingredients
  

  • 2 1/4 cup flour
  • cup sugar
  • Pinch of salt less than an ⅛ teaspoon
  • 2 2/3 cup milk
  • 4 tablespoons butter melted plus a little extra to grease your pan with.
  • ¼ cup water
  • 4 eggs

Instructions
 

  • Melt the butter so that it has time to cool before you use it. I put mine in a little ice bath, but it’s not necessary.
  • Combine flour, sugar, and salt into a large bowl.
  • Place milk, butter, water, and eggs in another bowl and whisk it together well.
  • Pour dry ingredients SLOWLY into the wet ingredients, combining with a whisk. You want to combine them slowly to prevent lumps from forming. The batter should be almost liquid. Let it rest for at least an hour - overnight is best.
  • Heat a pan on medium heat with enough butter to cover the bottom of the pan. You will know your pan is hot enough when you can sprinkle a couple drops of water in the pan and it sizzles.
  • Take batter out of the fridge and whisk it to remove the liquid that has separated.
  • Pour a little less than (or a scant as the technical term goes) ¼ cup of batter into the pan. I pick up the pan and swirl the batter around to cover the bottom of the pan. If that seems a little daunting to you, you can use the back of a spoon to spread out the batter.
  • Cook until it’s golden brown on one side, then flip it over and cook for about 15 to 30 seconds or until that side is cooked.
  • Place the crêpe on a plate to cool off and repeat steps 7 and 8 until you run out of batter.
Keyword crêpe, crepe recipe, easyrecipe, french, french cuisine