Orange Almond Crepes
For dessert we made Orange Almond Crepes, from cooks.com. Their recipe called for a chocolate almond sauce, which would have been great, but we decided to skip it, for ease.

I made all the crepes for the main course. I made the desert crepe batter while the dinner crepes were baking. (Normal crepe recipe with 2 T sugar added). This way it could sit while we were eating. After eating I made one 6" crepe, and let everyone else make their own crepe. While they were doing this I made the filling. (I had already chopped the oranges during prep time).

2/3 C (1/2 14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk)
1/3 C frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1/2 C peeled, chopped fresh orange
2 T chopped toasted almonds
1 C (1/2 pt.) whipping cream, whipped

Since this required no cooking, it was very easy and fast. The whipped cream makes it a very nice filling. Without it, the filling would have been really sweet. But the whipped cream (which had no sugar) toned it down some and made it fluffy. We also added some thawed frozen wild blueberries.

Add about 3 tablespoons of filling, roll the crepe, cover with powdered sugar, sprinkle with some orange zest, add a little whipped cream (can be from a can) in the middle then sprinkle with dark chocolate shavings.

Yum!
- posted by James @ 7:46 AM