Gooey, easy to make, and incredibly delicious, this simple crepe is a dessert you just can't miss. You can make the crepes ahead.
I thought that if you had bought some dulce de leche because you badly wanted to make alfajores, which you should really since they're that good, I might as well give you another easy recipe to use the rest of the jar. Especially if you have leftover crepes. What? You don't? Well, you should remedy that also, immediately.
Even if you already used the sticky jam to make brownies or chocolate wafer cake, you certainly bought a new jar, having caught the dulce de leche bug that will never leave your system. As you can see, my feelings for this sweet milk jam are serious.
I was without my computer for four days. The screen decided to freeze one night and, though I could momentarily get hold of another one for a few hours on Sunday, it wasn't until yesterday that I was able to return to my blogging duties.
Funny how it can take over your day, how I didn't know what the hell to do without it, especially in the first morning hours while I had my breakfast coffee.
I need to update it, and the day will come, together with a change in my website which is working on with a wonderful designer friend. To tell the truth, he's working on it, I'm just the lucky recipient for now. We have a new logo that I love and a self-hosted site that I hope to have up and running soon.
Meanwhile, these filled, warm, sweet, gooey crepes will help calm my anxiety.
Crepes are a wonderful base for so many fillings. This sweet variation, which definitely can't be called a recipe, because, you know, it's like buttering a piece of bread and broiling it, will help you satisfy that sweet craving that suddenly creeps up from nowhere. Or feed dessert to the five additional mouths that appeared on your table because you kid decided to come home with his buddies, unannounced.
Any way you look at it, it's fast and delicious. Just slather the crepes with the amount of dulce de leche you want, I won't judge, roll them up, sprinkle with sugar and broil until a bit caramelized.
Then, and this is a big and important then, please allow the temperature to come down a bit before you take your first mouth full.
Otherwise, you'll have a burned tongue, and that's no fun. After all, it's caramel coming out of the oven, boiling caramel.
That consideration taken care of, there's nothing left to do but enjoy this sticky dessert, that will make a mess on your plate and have you scraping the sides of the serving dish with a spoon. So great.
Personally, I love the burnt ends and the fact that the caramelization is not even. A bit of this and that with every bite.
PrintDulce de Leche Crepes
The recipe is just a guideline. You can stuff them to your liking, I use about 3 Tbs for each crepe. If you have a blow torch you can caramelize the crepes without using the oven. Just be sure they're room tº.
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 3 servings
Ingredients
- 6 crepes (thin French pancakes)
- 2 to 3 cups dulce de leche
- â…“ cup sugar
Instructions
- Preheat broiler to 400ºF /200ºC
- Put crepes on a flat working surface, fill them along the center with dulce de leche, roll up to encase filling and arrange them, side by side, on a baking dish.
- Sprinkle with sugar and broil for a few minutes until caramelized.
- Wait a few minutes before serving them since they're very hot.
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 30
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Cooking
- Cuisine: Argentinian
kellie@foodtoglow says
Lovely Paula. A great way with leftovers that's for sure 😀 Got my blow torch and I'm not afraid to use it...
Andrea_TheKitchenLioness says
Paula, this certainly looks like one "sweet treat" - actually I have never seen crepes filled with Dulce de Leche before. I am always amazed at all the uses for DdL that you come up with!
Lexiquin says
I love Dulce de Leche--thanks for the recipe!
mireia badia says
Sabes?? Aqui en Madrid es muy difÃcil encontrar dulce de leche del argentino bueno de verdad, me da mucha envidia que tu puedas encontrarlo facilmente!! Estos crepes tienen una pinta impresionante!!!
marilyn says
Caramel! one of my favorite flavors. I can almost taste these crepes with the bittersweet toasting you gave them. alfajores, one of my favorite cookies too. ok, now I gotta make something with caramel! have a great weekend, Paula!
Home Baked says
aaaaa qué rico tiene que estar!! nunca antes habÃa visto esta forma de hacer creppes, tengo que probarlo porque tienen que quedar muy ricas!
besos
seetfei says
Paula, you are made me feeling hungry now....this is gorgeous!
Cocoa and Lavender says
Paula - this is a great idea! I love crêpes with just about any filling, sweet or savory! And they are so simple to make, and I wonder why I don't have them more often! ~ David
Julia says
Sounds (and looks) delicious!
Zeeona @ Basil and Strawberry says
Looks absolutely delicious, the way the filling flows out of the crepes. How many can you eat of those at once?
thelittleloaf says
Mmmmmn! Dulce de leche and crepes? I'm in.
Inside a British Mum's Kitchen says
I am absolutely swooning!! these crepes are amazing!!
Mary x
Medeja says
Very very sweet..I can imagine that I would be able to finish only one at a time 😀
Jen @JuanitasCocina says
How is it possible that I'm drooling and I just finished eating dinner?
Guru Uru says
Now that is one very stunning dessert my friend 😀
Loving it!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
yummychunklet says
Wow. What a fantastic dessert crepe! Yum!
Rhu and Sam says
Vaya bomba! Delicious!!!
Renee Dobbs says
Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my chin. Oh. My. Heavens. Just incredible.
Katie says
Mmm, I love when my mother-in-law announces that we'll be having panqueques con dulce de leche for dessert at our Sunday family lunch. What a great way to cap off a meal!
Cher Rockwell says
This looks wonderful - I wonder if I could pass it off as dinner?????