These cinnamon apple crepes are a delicious taste of fall. Sweet crepes are filled with a delicious apple filling and then topped with sweetened whipped cream. This is a great treat for either a family get-together or a special weekend dessert.
Why This Recipe Tastes So Good
These apple crepes are made with my favorite Dessert Crepes recipe and then filled with tart apples cooked in butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. The apples are still a little and the sweetness of the apples is perfect with the buttery crepes. The assembled crepes are then topped with whipped cream and apple brown sugar cinnamon syrup. It's the perfect dessert. Light and yet filling.
For more apple desserts check out some of the my favorites including: French apple tart, apple galette with hazelnut frangipane, and apple crumble, made with brown butter.
Apple Filling Ingredients
This recipe is comprised of two recipes
- Dessert Crepes. See my recipe for easy crepes and make either the savory or sweet crepes for this tasty dessert.
- Apple Cinnamon Filling. This filling is easy to make. It's made with tart Granny Smith apples, butterm light brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Once cooked the apples are tender, the sugar and butter create a delicious sauce, and the apples are infused with the flavor of the spices. If you don't use all the apple filling for the crepes, you can use leftovers for your oatmeal and in your yogurt.
The basic crepe recipe makes enough crepes for 4-5 servings. Store any leftover crepes in the refrigerator.
How to Make The Cinnamom Apple Filling
Start by peeling the apples and cutting them into 1-inch pieces. Toss them in a bowl with a little lemon juice and stir the apples to coat them with lemon juice.
Step 1: Add butter to a 12-inch non-stick skillet and melt it over medium heat. When the butter starts to bubble add the brown sugar and stir until the sugar is combined with the butter.
Step 2: Add the chopped apples and increase the heat to medium-high. As the apples cook a lot of liquid will be released. Our goal is to cook off a lot of that liquid so we end up with a thick syrup.
Step 3: When the liquid is reduced by half add the spice mixture and gently stir (to avoid breaking up any of the apple pieces) to combine the spices and apples. Cook until the liquid is thick and syrupy.
How to Assemble the Crepes
There are multiple ways to assemble these cinnamon apple crepes:
Step 4: Spoon some of the apple filling on the lower half of a crepe and then roll the crepe into a cylinder. Top with sweetened whipped cream.
Step 5: Fold the crepes into quarters, spoon the apple filling on top, top with whipped cream and sprinkle with powedered sugar.
Pro Tips for Making This Recipe
- If you're making this for a group or for a special, make the crepe batter the night before and refrigerate it until ready to make the crepes.
- Use baking apples for this recipe. There are apples that are great for eating and baking and apples that are mainly for eating (they turn mushy when baking or cooking).
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Cinnamon Apple Crepes
Ingredients
Crepes
- 1 Crepes Recipe (use my recipe for Dessert Crepes)
Apple Filling
- 2 pounds ((908 grams) Granny Smith apples or your favorite baking apple
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons (42 grams) unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup (50 grams) light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Prepare the crepe batter and cook the crepes according to this Crepe Recipe.
- If making the crepes the day before, stack them, place them in a freezer bag and store them in the refrigerator. If making them and serving them the same day, stack them on a place and keep at room temperature.
- Place the ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground allspice and salt in a small bowl and stir to combine.
- Peel and chop the apples into 1-inch cubes. Place them in a bowl and sprinkle with the lemon juice and toss the apples to coat them.
- Melt the butter in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat, when it starts to bubble add the brown sugar and stir until the brown sugar-butter mixture until the sugar is thoroughly mixed in with the butter and just starts to bubble.
- Add the apples in a single layer, turn the heat up to medium-high heat and cook the apples until half the liquid is evaporated. When the apples are cooking at the beginning, they will release a lot of liquid, so the amount of liquid in the pan will increase by a lot. Add the spice mixture and stir to mix in the spices and continue to cook the apples until most of the liquid has evaporated and a thick syrup remains
- Occasionally stir the apples to make sure they don’t burn, but for the most part let them cook undisturbed so they caramelize but are still a little firm by the time the liquid is evaporated and they have start caramelize.
- Remove the apples from the heat and spoon them into a wide bowl. Scrape the pan to get all the syrup.
Assembling the Crepes
- There is not specific way to assemble this dessert. You can:- Spoon some of the apple filling on the lower half of a crepe and then roll the crepe into a cylinder. Top with sweetened whipped cream.- Place the apple filling in the center of the crepe and fold the crepes in half and top with whipped cream or ice cream.- Fold the crepes into quarters, spoon the apple filling on top, top with whipped cream, and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- Spoon some of the apple filling on the lower half of a crepe and then roll the crepe into a cylinder. Top with sweetened whipped cream.
- Place the apple filling in the center of the crepe and fold the crepes in half and top with whipped cream or ice cream.
- Fold the crepes into quarters, spoon the apple filling on top, top with whipped cream and sprinkle with powedered sugar.
- Store leftover crepes in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 days and the apple filling in the refrigerator for up to one week. Both the crepes and the apple filling can be frozen and then thawed in the refrigerator when ready to eat.
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