Crepes with Cream Cheese and Strawberry Filling

I have been wanting to make crepes for a while,  just haven't gotten of my bum and made them. It's not that they are difficult, just hard to decide when to make something like that. So since the husband had to work super late and would not be eating dinner with us, I decided that that the boy and I would enjoy crepes for dinner tonight. I love the Food Network website (well I love their cable channel too!!). So I went looking on their site, and of course the recipe that grabbed me was an Alton Brown one. Oh how I love Alton Brown. The only thing about his recipe I changed was I added cinnamon. They turned out perfect! Well not perfectly round of course, this is me after all. But the flavor was great. I wasn't really feeling any of the filling recipes I found. They were either savory, which I didn't want, or had a full cup (at least) of sugar, don't want that much sugar for dinner. So I just whipped one up myself that only had a little sugar. 

Here's what you need

Crepes

2 Eggs

3/4 Cup Milk

1/2 Water

1 Cup of Flour (I always use self rising)

3 Tablespoons of melt Butter

Extra butter for pan

Starting with wet ingredients first, put everything into a blender, and blend for about 10-20 seconds. Put mix into the fridge. You can put it into a bowl 1st if you want. Leave in the fridge for 1 1/2 hours to let all the air bubbles subside.   To cook them, heat a pan (I use a griddle) to med/high heat. Once hot add a little butter to pan. Pour about 1/4 cup batter into pan, and swirl the pan around to create a thin circle of batter. Cook for about 2 minutes on each side. Once done put on plate, and start another.

 

This only makes enough for half the crepes. I had no reason to cook all the batter, therefore I didn't need enough filling for all of it.

Things you need for filling

4 oz of Cream Cheese (half a regular package) softened

2 Tablespoons of Sour Cream

1 Tablespoon White Sugar

1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla 

1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon 

1/3 Cup Whipping Cream

Using the whisk attachment on your mixer (if you don't have one then just use the regular beaters). Whisk the cream cheese and sour cream till mixed. Add the sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon. In a separate bowl beat the whipping cream until thickened. Add the cream a scoop at a time to the cream cheese mixture.

I also tossed some chopped fresh strawberries into a sauce pan with a little water and sugar and let it reduce way down.

Lay the crepe on the plate, spread a few tablespoons of the cream cheese mix onto the crepe, then add some of the strawberry reduction, then top with some fresh chopped strawberries if you want. Fold it up and enjoy.