Blood Orange and Sweet Ricotta Crepes

On Saturday night, Cakes and I were both craving somethign sweet, and a little bit chocolately and decadent. We ran through a possible list of chocolate treats we couls make - souffles, cakes, fudge.... But we kept running up against a problem. Only one egg, and no real chocolate (only organic dutch cocoa) and no one was willing to leave the house to procure provisions. What to do? Well, this...

Blood orange crepes with sweet ricotta and homemade fudge sauce

Serves two (or three) very lazy homebodies (the crepe batter will make 3 or four crepes depending on the size)

Sauce

• 1/2 cup cream
• 1/4 cup corn syrup
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1 pinch sea salt
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon vanilla

Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir continuously until mixture bubbles. Continue cooking bubbling sauce for 3 or four minutes. Remove from heat and set aside to cool slightly while you make the filling and crepes.

Filling

• sliced segments of 1 blood orange
• 1 cup ricotta into which you have mixed 2 tablespoons vanilla sugar

Crepes

• 1/3 cup flour
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons vanilla sugar
• 1 tablespoon orange liquer (I always keep a big bottle of vodka into which I pop the pith-less rind of several oranges - it kicks the ass of any commercial orange liquer)
• 1 teaspoon canola oil
• 1 teaspoon grated blood orange rind

Whisk all ingredients together well. This amount will make three large crepes or four slightly less large ones.

Heat a crepe pan over medium heat. Melt a knob of butter in the pan. Use a teacup or ladle to deposit one portion of the batter at a time into the pan. Cook crepe through without flipping. Turn out onto plate and make the next crepe.

Assembly

Place a crepe in the middle of a plate. Spread a portion of the ricotta mixture in a line doewn the centre of the crepe. Top with 3 or 4 orange segments (depending on how many you have) and drizzle over chocolate fudge sauce. Roll crepe gently up. Drizzle with a little more sauce over the top.

Comments

[MM]

OMG! Can't speak ... drooling too much ...

[Michel]

That looks amazing.

[Dianka]

I will definitely be making these crepes as well as your poppy seed ravioli's this weekend! They look absolutely delicious! Check out my new food blog and let me know what you think!

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[vatel]

Hurry up to do this season is quite over fe blood oranges..