Caramelized Banana Crepes

*Disclosure*

I did not like these. I would suggest nutella in place of the bananas. I failed to realize in all my excitement about making something new that not only do I not like caramel but I also do not like bananas.. caramelized bananas.. not my most well thought out plan. 

However; if you like caramel, and you like bananas.. it may be worth a shot. The recipe came from >HERE< now, remember all those years ago when you were sitting in math class and decided to take a nap because they were going over US-->metric conversions and you were positive that not only did no one use metric and you would never see it in your life but also that you would never need to convert it? Yeah, me either, because I was already taking my nap at that point if I hadn't already come up with some "excuse" to skip class..  Anyway- back on topic, the recipe I found is in metric which should've been hint enough that I should try something else instead but.. there was chocolate involved and I was blinded by that. 

First off, yes, I took a bazillion pictures. Here is the final outcome

Nowhere near as pretty as the ones in the blog I found the recipe in.. how they did that, I don't know. But here is what you'll need

Not too bad just a handful of ingredients. 

Start off by putting the 500ml(2C for us Americans) milk, 2 eggs, 2T sugar, 2T maple syrup, and a couple shakes of salt in a bowl and mixing. 

Mix it all up and add 300ml(1 1/4 C for us Americans) of flour

You know those times when its actually easier to mix things by hand with a whisk than with the mixer? Me either, but this is one of them.

after that you'll need to melt down 4T butter in the microwave as well as 4T dark chocolate

Don't mind the dirty microwave.. oh wait, I edited out the food spatters =] 

add the butter to the mix

Then pour 1/2 the mix into a separate bowl. Add the chocolate to the 2nd bowl

mix it in

Real good..

Then dissolve 2 T cocoa powder in 2 T boiling water (you can boil water in the microwave in 30sec)

It's hot ok, be careful. Don't mind the spaghetti cooking on the back burners..

Mix that into the chocolate bowl too

now grease a frying pan

Get it hot (med-hi)

Make sure its ready by feeling the heat coming off of it

pour in ~1/2 C batter and pick the pan up, using a circular rotating motion spread out the batter in a thin circle

after a couple minutes it should be ready to turn over

Yay! Pretty crepe!

do the same with all the batter

Yay! Crepes!

The ever hopeful Hank awaiting any clumsy mishaps, how cute is he? Love him. 

Now that the crepes are done melt down 4 T butter and 4T sugar

It makes this strangely fluffy/light goopy stuff

Slice in a banana, nice and thin

I smooshed it all up with the spatula

and kept pushing it around as it browned

It seems to get smaller as it cooks

At this point I had removed it from the heat and was letting it cool

I tried to get a good straight line of banana gunk down the center of 3 alternating colored stacked crepes

then rolled them up and secured them with toothpicks

see the alternating colors?

They look so much better than they were.. Ok so I'm just saying that because the banana goo was not good. I mean if you like bananas I'm sure it was fine, and if you like caramel, it was great but.. I don't. These would've been great had they been slathered in nutella in place of the banana. 

Enjoy! =]