Ready Steady Cook Challenge - Dessert

My starter was light so I knew I could have a heavy or rich dessert for my Ready Steady Cook challenge. I also had to rely on pantry ingredients and I had to keep it as lactose free as possible.

Crepes with Dark Chocolate Mint Sauce

Serves 2-4

62.5g Cake Flour

1 tablespoon Castor Sugar (Normal sugar blitzed fine with a hand blender)

1 large egg

1 egg yolk

160ml Lactose-free Milk (Parmalat Easy-gest)

½ tablespoon melted margarine

Margarine for cooking

Sauce

50ml milk Lactose-free Milk (Parmalat Easy-gest)

35g Dark Mint Chocolate

Crepes

Sift the flour and sugar in a bowl

In another bowl, whisk the eggs and egg yolks together until thick and creamy. Mix in the milk and melted margarine.

Add the liquid to the flour mixture. Beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. Cover and allow to stand for one hour.

Cook the crepes one at a time in a lightly buttered crepe pan. I don’t have a crepe pan so I used the largest non-stick pan I could find and tried to keep the batter as thin as possible.

Keep the cooked crepes warm while you cook the rest of the batter.

Chocolate Sauce

Heat the milk. Chop the chocolate into small pieces and melt in a small saucepan. Add a little milk to stretch the chocolate a little further.

I used Lindt Dark Mint Chocolate but they come in other flavours. I didn’t want to use the Chilli flavour as my main course was spicy and because my starter had orange in, I didn’t want to use the intense orange flavour. I don’t like repeating flavours or textures in my courses.

Because I didn’t make crepes, but more “pancakes” I decided to present them as pancakes and not the traditional triangle fold of the crepes. Plus, with the rolled pancakes I could get more height on my plate. I stacked all four crepes on the plate, drizzled the chocolate sauce over and we sat in the sun enjoying our tea time treat! The images are 4 crepes cut in half to make 8 pieces. I added a little bit more chocolate as the 35g didn't go far enough for my chocolate craving but a "normal" person wouldn't need more!

(The crepes can be refrigerated for up to two days so this is great to make in advance for a dinner party or other event)