Vanilla bean crepes with roasted pears and vanilla sugar

Babiche Martens

Ingredients

30 g	Butter
1 pinch	Salt
1 ½ cups	Milk
150 g	Flour
2	Eggs
1 tsp	Vanilla, (ground)
2	Pears
20 g	Butter
1 Tbsp	Brandy
1 to dust	Vanilla sugar
1	Lemon, (zest and juice)

Directions

1. Warm the butter, salt and milk until the butter has melted. Put the flour into a bowl and make a well, add the vanilla.
2. Break the eggs into the bowl and slowly whisk into the flour with the warm milk mixture until incorporated and smooth. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
3. Preheat oven to 180C. Grease a small baking dish. Halve the pears, remove the cores, and then slice. Dot with butter, add the brandy, zest and juice and sprinkle with 2 tsp of vanilla sugar. Bake for an hour.
4. Heat a frying pan or crepe pan. Wipe with buttered baking paper. The crepe mix should have the consistency of cream, add a little milk if necessary. Ladle some mix into the pan and swirl to cover. After 1 minute, flip and cook for another minute. Transfer to a plate and keep warm. Repeat the process.
5. Serve the crepes folded with the pears in-between. Sprinkle with more vanilla sugar and serve with whipped cream.