For me, crepes ain’t worth the stress to make fresh. Just buy a little pack from store and focus on filling is my go to.

  • @[email protected]
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    6211 months ago

    Crepes? Jesus, they’re one of the easiest things you can cook. Anyway, to answer your question: croissants! I’ve made them from scratch before and it definitely wasn’t worth it. Took half a day and weren’t a patch on the real thing

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      1111 months ago

      Even I can make crepes lol. Have one of those small pans. Make the batter, open the butter, get cracking.

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      I have a mental block against making things one by one that have like 20 calories in them.

      Brain says small things bad unless can make a million at a time.

      And yeah screw making those things from scratch.

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        11 months ago

        A crepe is like 100 calories and you can pour like 5 in less than 10 minutes. But anyway, to reach their own. personally I hate chopping stuff even if it takes 1 minute.

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        yeah it is annoying when using a small pan/stove as opposed to a giant griddle where one crepe is actually a lot

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      311 months ago

      I was surprised by this too! I mean I can understand thinking that crepes will be hard because they’re pretty dainty and might be delicate, but they’re surprisingly easy to do.

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      Do you means from absolute scratch? Here in the Netherlands it is common to buy a can of pre-made dough for croissants. You have to roll and bake them yourself, and adding some egg is also a great idea. But it is technically not entirely from scratch.

      They taste way better than the pre-baked ones that you have to re-heat. Absolutely worth the minimal effort.

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        711 months ago

        What you describe is not making from scratch at all. Those are premade save the final couple of steps, no different than a frozen pizza from the grocery store. No one gets a frozen pizza and says they made it from scratch.

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        111 months ago

        What do you mean re-heat? Are you heating the ones from the bakery before you eat them? Are they not eaten cold in the Netherlands?