Easy Breakfast: Tasty Ombre Crepe Stacks Recipe

Happy Fall everyone! To start your fall off on the right path, let’s dig into a tasty healthy breakfast recipe that’s quick and simple to make!  With the Ombre’ Crepe Stacks, you get the best of both worlds. Sweet and creamy tastes with the lushes richness of a thin pancake that’s sure to get you the energy you’ll need to begin your days of fall towards the best.  So why don’t we make our way below for to how to make this wonderful creation.

Easy Breakfast: Tasty Ombre Crepe Stacks

Chocolate Ganache

Image via:  Bright Eyed Baker

Serving: 2 cakes

Ingredients

9” Crepes
½ cup of Heavy Cream
1/8 teaspoon of Vanilla Extract
1 ½ cups of Pastry Cream
½ cup of Blackberries
• Powdered Sugar (optional)

Directions

To begin your healthy breakfast, take the 9-inch crepes that you can purchase at world market and with a 4-inch cookie cutter, cut out three decent sized circles which should give you 26 in total, 13 per cake.

For the Filling:

1. Begin to whip the heavy cream and vanilla extract until soft peaks start to form. After the peaks have been made, fold in 1 cup of the pastry cream. And place the new mixture into 3 bowls then set aside.

For the Ombre’ Filling:

1. Time for the blackberries! Puree the blackberries and place 3 tablespoons of them into one bowl then take 1 tablespoon and place that portion into another bowl. And leave the last bowl from the filling plain.

Blackberry Crepe Stacks inspire by fashion

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For the Assembly:

1. If you have two mini stands then perfect if not then two small plate will work just fine. Start with the cake stand or plate and lay down one crepe.
2. Then spread a thin layer of the darkest ombre’ filling with on offset spatula. Repeat the process until four layers of the darkest ombre’ filling, then with the next to lightest create four layers, and lastly four layers with the plain filling.
3. Top it all off with your last crepe circle and loosely cover the cakes with plastic wrap and let them chill for an hour. Once the cakes have cooled long enough, then take them out of the refrigerator, unwrap them and add some toppings.
4. You can take some of the last ½ cup of pastry cream and place it at the top of the cakes with some powdered sugar and blackberries or switch it up with strawberries for the tops. The Enjoy!

Start your Fall days off with a sweeten bang!  You don’t have to use just blackberries.  You have an array of options like chocolate and peanut butter, or even strawberry creams.  What about caramel filings?  The options are endless, because anything can inspire your crepes from fashions to nature to simple tastes.  So Stagetecture readers, what types of crepes do you like to make for your healthy breakfast?  Let us know.