Crepes Suzette… a spectacular dessert that has always sounded intimidating, is now part of my regular menu and a year ago, I would have never believed this. Why is it that french food can make a good cook shudder as if the level of difficulty can only be mastered by a select few? Well, crepes suzette didn’t come from a well-trained french chef trying to press the culinary envelope. It came from a mistake!

Yes, Henri Charpentier was 14 years old, working as an assistant waiter in 1895 at the Maitre at Monte Carlo’s Café de Paris. As he was preparing a dessert for the Prince of Wales, the cordials caught fire. The prince decided the dish was to be named after the woman in his company, and it became Crepes Suzette.

According to Henri Charpentier, in his own words from Life A La Henri – Being The Memories of Henri Charpentier:

“It was quite by accident as I worked in front of a chafing dish that the cordials caught fire. I thought I was ruined. The Prince and his friends were waiting. How could I begin all over? I tasted it. It was, I thought, the most delicious melody of sweet flavors I had every tasted. I still think so.”

Well, Mr. Henri Charpentier, I think so too. Buttery, orange liquor with crepes to soak all the flavors and force one to eat with a spoon to catch all the syrup is last meal delicious.

Make someone happy and invite them to your kitchen for Crepes Suzette. It’s so romantic that I do believe it could put one in the mood for a marriage proposal!

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Crepes Suzette, A Romantic Recipe

Crepes Suzette, a classic of crepes, orange butter and liquor.

Course Dessert

Cuisine French

Prep Time 40 minutes minutes

Cook Time 4 minutes minutes

Total Time 44 minutes minutes

Author Angela Roberts

Ingredients

• 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• grated zest of 1 orange
• 2 eggs beaten
• 1 cup milk I used fat free organic
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Orange Butter

• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
• zest of 1 orange grated fine
• 2/3 cup confectioner’s sugar
• 3 tablespoons Grand Marnier
• 3 tablespoons cognac

Instructions

Crepes

• Combine salt sugar, flour, orange zest in bowl
• In separate bowl add beaten eggs to milk.
• Add to flour mixture. add in unsalted melted butter and vanilla.
• Let crepe mixture sit for 30 minutes.
• Melt butter in crepe pan. Using paper towel, to wipe out butter so it just films pan.
• Pour 1/4 cup (in standard crepe pan). Pour off any crepe back into bowl so the crepe will be very thin.
• Turn in about two minutes to cook on other side.

Orange Butter

• Combine first 4 ingredients; beat well to make an orange butter.
• Preheat oven to 350. Brush 1 teaspoon orange butter in middle of each crepe. Fold into quarters. Arrange on heating platter (to be placed in oven) with remaining butter. Warm in oven several minutes until hot.

Assemble

• Pour orange butter over crepes.
• Heat last 2 ingredients in small saucepan over low heat. At table light the sauce with a match and pour over crepes.

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