Candlemas: what if we tried the pancake cake?

Want to shake up the codes and reinvent your crepe party, then the crepe cake assembled like a mille-feuille which layers crepe on crepe, is the good idea to revive the basic and simple pancakes. Starred by Hélène Darroze in her restaurant Jòia, in a matcha version, the crepe cake is an easy dessert that comes in endless variations.

How to make a crepe cake?

To make it, it’s very simple, all you have to do is stack up as you wish a good dozen crepes that you assemble like a mille-feuille with a filling that you spread in a thin layer. Taste-wise, everything is possible and imaginable: pastry cream, jam, lemon curd, orange marmalade, hazelnut spread, chestnut cream, apple compote, homemade praline, melted chocolate, etc. A fun staging idea, for a dessert that simply needs to be cut into pieces before serving.

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