Banana and Chocolate Mascarpone Crepes
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
The combination of chocolate and banana is highly underrated.
Aside from some frozen bananas dipped in chocolate, and chocolate chip banana bread, the combination is largely overlooked. Well, break out your bananas because we are going to make something that will make chocolate lovers rejoice.
The crepes are chocolate but they do not have any sugar in them. Before you say I am mad consider that the crepes are going to be filled with bananas which are naturally very sweet. Along with bananas there is a rich, bitter-sweet, chocolate mascarpone filling, and once plated the crepes are dusted with powdered sugar. With all that sweetness the crepes themselves needed to be bitter to provide a nice contrast in flavor.
If you love chocolate and bananas then you need to make this recipe.
Banana and Chocolate Mascarpone Crepes Yield 12 crepes
For the crepes:
2 tablespoons Dutch-processed cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
3 ounces all-purpose flour
1 ounce unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 tablespoon coffee liquor
3/4 cup Milk, 1% or higher
For the filling:
6 ounces mascarpone cheese
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
3 tablespoons Dutch-processed cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon coffee liquor
Pinch of salt
3-4 large bananas, sliced into 1/8″ disks
Additional powdered sugar for dusting
Combine the cocoa, eggs, vanilla, and coffee liquor in a large bowl until well combined. Whisk in the flour and butter and mix until there are no lumps. Set aside.
In a heavy sauce pan scald the milk (bring to a low simmer before removing from the heat). Add 1/4 of the hot milk into the egg mixture, whisking constantly, to temper, then combine the remaining milk.
Chill the batter for 30 minutes.
In a medium bowl combine the mascarpone, cream, powdered sugar, cocoa, vanilla, liquor, and salt and mix until smooth and well combined. Set aside.
After the batter has chilled, place an 8″ non-stick omelet, saute, or crepe pan over medium heat. Spray it lightly with non-stick cooking spray.
Pour 1 1/2 ounces (about 1/4 cup) of batter into the center of the hot pan an swirl the pan until the batter coats the pan evenly. Cook until the edges release from the pan and the underside of the crepe slides easily in the pan, about one minute. Flip the crepe, or turn with a rubber spatula, and cook for 30 seconds to 1 minute on the second side.
Remove to a plate and stack the cooked crepes between layers of parchment or wax paper.
To assemble spread a thin layer of the mascarpone mixture on the center of the crepe. Lay a line of bananas down the center then roll into a tube. Alternately, you can spread the mascarpone over 1/4 of the crepe, lay a few bananas on top then fold the crepe in half, and then in half again.
Serve with a dusting of powdered sugar.
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Tags: Bananas, Chocolate, cocoa, Coffee, Crepes, dutch processed, french, liquor, mascarpone, mousse, powdered sugar
I love how deep and dark the chocolate crepes are. Nice job on this recipe!
These look so delicious! Love that the crepe is unsweetened.
OMG! What a sinful combination…chocolate and bananas in a crepe! Great recipe…thx for sharing this.
congrats on the Foodbuzz news! Can’t wait to meet you in February!
Those look amazing, and I love the chocolately color + flavor in the crepes – will be trying this soon!
Ohmigosh this sounds AMAZING!!!! I LOVE these flavors together!
Once again, you have completely wow-ed me. I love bananas and chocolate and would love to make these! YUM!
Banana & Chocolate are such a good combination. and with the sweetness of the mascarpone… sounds like a winning combo.
wow….chooclatey goodness!
so when can I come over to have some of this chocolatey goodness? :-p
These look super yummy, great sunday treat!!
Ooooohhhhhh these look just fantastic – cannot wait to make them!
Looking forward to meeting you in NY for the Foodbuzz Electrolux event next month!
Chocolate and banana are a match made in flavor heaven
Oh my…this is calling my name. Yum.
Yummy!
Chocolate crepes?!?! You do know you’re talking to a chocoholic right over here right? Pass some over here please.
Be still my heart! I love anything and everything chocolate and bananas. Can’t wait to make this. I like that the chocolate crepe itself isn’t sweet.. but the rest makes up for it. Cool!!
Yum! These look amazing! Looking forward to meeting you (finally) in NYC at the Electrolux event!!
omg these are positively sinful!
How unique and positively gorgeous. I have bookmarked these and cannot wait to make!
Wow. This would really take care of a chocolate fix in a quick hurry. Beautiful pictures and wonderful instruction.
ok, where to start. i’m new here and every single one of your recipes looks divine.
Congrats on being chosen for the Foodbuzz trip to NY! How exciting that you get to meet Kelly Ripa! Have a wonderful time and do tell us all about it when you return
Oh, I absolutely love bananas and chocolate together – and they are not used together as much as they should Your crepes are a wonderful idea – and look delicious!
That’s a really tempting crepe. I think the holidays is not yet over.
This looks incredible! I like that you kept the crepes bitter and not overly sweet, I am sure it is a good contrast.
Those look yummy. I haven’t had crepes in a very long time.
I cannot wait to try this recipe!
Delicious in all ways. You’re right – who needs a sweetened crepe with all that sweet goodness?
Holy cannoli’s those look good!
All I have to say is….oh my!
After wiping the drool off of my keyboard, I am now typing to write that this crepe makes me go: OH BABY.
Look delicious!
Wow!! Looks like the perfect dessert! A very creative way of combining those ingredients! And the colour of your crepes is so beautiful.
Just delightful!
These look great, and a little sinful (which
is not a bad thing!)
Do you use cookbooks when you make these recipes or do you just sort of add and taste as you go? I’m curious what cookbooks you follow and where you keep them. I know so many people who have hundreds in their house. Just read about a site that now lets you put them all onto one site for organization purposes: http://stephanieklein.com/2010/01/what-your-cookbooks-say-about-you.html
Jen – Most of my recipes are created by me using nothing more than my culinary know-how. If a recipe is adapted from a cookbook or other source I make sure to note it in the post, along with a link to the original if appropriate.
Oh my god, these crepes look SO GOOD!!! I want to eat my screen!! lol
and your pictures are beautiful!
I will definitely have to try to make these!!!
I think these would be wonderful with raspberries and a raspberry drizzle
oh my stars. are you serious? this is just too good to be true.
these look simply amazing – chocolate and banana is such a wonderful combination. I made an Italian dinner for Christmas eve and have a couple of leftover tubs of mascarpone – this looks like a perfect use for it!
Simply wonderful! The pics are great too…
Nice work!
Great work and nice pics! I really feel hungry now!
Cheers,
Carsten
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Wow, you took some great pictures. Looks amazing (and I knew that fruit and chocolate was a great pairing, but chocolate crepes and bananas sounds great!).
Looks great and very tempting!
yum, yum, yum, yum, yum!
YUM!!! They look fantastic.
Nice idea! These crepes look absolutely yummy.
Oh my… these look incredible. Any idea what people who can’t eat egg might use as an alternative?