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This crêpe cake is the perfect afternoon snack

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Pancakes are fantastic – especially a tall mountain of them. What’s even better is a whole cake made of pancakes and this is quite easy to make. The result still looks as delicious as if you had spent hours making it!

Crepes Cake

Course Cakes & Pastries, Desserts

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup cream
  • 2 tsp vanilla sugar
  • 9 oz mascarpone
  • 6 tbsp raspberry jam
  • 2 cups milk
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/4 cup melted butter
  • Berries as decoration (optional)

Instructions
 

  • Beat cream mixed with vanilla sugar. Add mascarpone and raspberry jam (or another kind of jam).
  • Mix the milk and eggs. Slowly pour in the flour and keep stirring to avoid clumps. Add vanilla sugar and melted butter.
  • Bake roughly 10 thin pancakes. Allow them to cool off.
  • Lay a pancake on a large plate and spread a few spoonfuls of cooled berry cream on top. Repeat to form a stack.
  • Cover the pancake stack with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for one hour.
  • Decorate with fresh berries or any other kind of fresh fruit.

VIDEO

When you think about cakes like this, your fantasy is going to go wild. The cream between the pancakes can be replaced with anything. What do you think of Nutella, cream cheese or ham and cheese perhaps? For the latter, you should definitely leave out the vanilla sugar from the pancakes!