Crepes on crepes with a mascarpone cream filling and sticky chocolate syrup glaze.

  • Serves: 8 people
  • Prep time: 75 minutes
  • Cooking time: 30 minutes
    • French
    • Vegetarian

    Mocha Crepe Layer Cake

    Recipe Information

    Ingredients
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    For chocolate crepes:

    300g Plain Flour

    50g Cocoa Powder

    3 Medium Eggs

     

    For the filling:

    500g Mascarpone

    2 tsp Instant Coffee (dissolved in 50ml hot water and left to cool)

    300ml Double Cream

    50g Caster Sugar

    120g Caramelised Biscuits (crushed to a rough crumb in a food processor)

     

    For the glaze:

    200g Dark Chocolate, broken into pieces

    150g Unsalted Butter, cubed

    1 tbsp Golden Syrup

    Method

    To make the crepes, sift the flour and cocoa into a large bowl.

    Add the eggs and slowly add the milk, beating thoroughly (a stand mixer or handheld electric beater makes this a lot easier). Beat until you have a smooth batter.

    Put a little oil and butter into a 20cm crepe pan and when sizzling gently pour in a ladle of crepe mixture.

    Let it cook for a couple of minutes then flip over and cook the other side.

    This mixture will make 10 crepes.

    Lay them out as you do them on a sheet of baking paper to cool.

    For the filling; put the mascarpone, sugar and cream into a large bowl (a stand mixer would be great) and gradually whisk them together.

    Add a little of the coffee mixture and continue to beat the creamy mixture.

    Stop as soon as you have a nice thick but smooth mixture.

    Fold in the crushed biscuits.

    Line a 20cm round cake tin with cling film.

    Take a tablespoon of the coffee cream mix and place it onto the first crepe.

    Smear it all over the crepe with a pallet knife and place onto the base of the cake tin – cream side up.

    Repeat this process until all of the crepes and cream are used up.

    Bring any overhanging cling film over the cake and refrigerate for a good 45 minutes.

    To make the glaze; put the chocolate, butter and golden syrup into a heavy based, non-stick pan and melt very gently together until you have a smooth, glossy liquid.

    Set this aside or pop in the fridge for 10-15 minutes to cool it down.

    To assemble; have a wire cooling rack ready with a sheet of baking paper on it. Carefully turn the cake upside down onto it and release the springform.

    Peel away the cling film. Run a palette knife around the side of the cake to make sure it is even.

    Now pour the glaze over the cake – about two ladles full and let it run down the sides.

    Refrigerate at this point for 10-15 minutes then repeat with the remaining glaze.

    Use a palette knife dipped briefly into hot water to smooth the sides to give an even finish.

    Refrigerate again for another 10-15 minutes then decorate with some crushed biscuits, chocolate shavings, buttons etc.

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