Piña Colada Crepes

In honor of Cinco De Mayo I bring you piña colada crepes! If you're like me, have two kids at home, you can't exactly go nuts and enjoy an actual piña colada, this is quite a treat. 

Sweet Crepe recipe:

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

3/4 cup warm water

2 tbsp melted butter

3 tbsp sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup flour

In a bowl whisk eggs together, add in the milk, water and melted butter, mix well. Next mix in the sugar vanilla and flour until fully incorporated. Heat a lightly greased pan on medium low heat. Take 1/4 cup of batter and spread in a circular motion until the bottom of the pan in covered. Let cook until the sides start to come away from the pan, flip and let brown a little. Remove from pan and let cool on plate.

Coconut cream:

1 13.5oz can of coconut milk

1 3oz coconut cream instant 

pudding

1 cup heavy whipping cream

2 tbsp sugar

1/2 tsp coconut extract

In a bowl mix together the coconut milk and instant pudding, I unfortunately did not realize that I accidentally bought the cook and serve pudding which I hate because it adds an extra step to the recipe so make sure you get instant pudding and not cook and serve pudding (who in their right mind would choose cook and serve over instant?). 

Store the pudding mix in the fridge for the pudding to set. 

In a separate bowl add the heavy whipping cream and sugar. Whip together until it forms stuff peaks. Fold in the pudding mixture. 

Pineapple sauce:

1 cup chopped fresh pineapple

1 cup water

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp lemon juice

2 tbsp cornstarch

1 tsp vanilla

In a pot add in 1 cup of cold water, sugar, lemon and whisk in cornstarch making sure the cornstarch completely dissolves.

Cook mix on medium heat stirring continuously so that the mix doesn't clump. 

Once the mix starts to thicken add in the pineapple and cook for 5 minutes. 

Remove from heat add in the vanilla extract and allow the mixture to cool, it will thicken as it cools so don't worry if the sauce looks to thin.

Use a hand blender or place in a blender and blend until the pineapple sauce is smooth. 

To assemble the crepe pipe coconut cream into crepe. Pour some pineapple sauce over the crepe. Sprinkle some coconut flakes over the crepe and garnish with sliced pineapple and a maraschino cherry.