When I first discovered this "cake" in a cafe in Melaka, I fell in love with it instantly. It was nothing like I ever tasted, and it's just, amazing. Layers and layers of what I thought to be some kind of egg batter, assembled so perfectly into a cake - it is perfect. So sometime around summer, I was browsing around and looking at baking and cooking blogs, and found the recipe for this mille crepe! It doesn't look as nicely assembled at the one in the cafe in Melaka, but it looks good nonetheless.
So I've been wanting to give it a try, but I've just been procrastinating it for a few months because it really seemed like a lot of work. When my friend's birthday came, it just struck me that I had to give this a try. It was then or never.
Preparing the batter was easy and fun. But the frustration kicks in when it's time to make the crepes. I had access to two non-stick pans, but both had scratches and didn't work very well. My crepes were sticking to the pan and I've wasted about 4 or 5 crepes, and VERY frustrated.
But there's my baker boyfriend, who came and suggested that I use the smaller pan (probably about 4-5 inches) which looked better and didn't have any scratches on it.
It worked, and we ended up having two tiny mille crepe cakes. :D
The sides of the cake wasn't supposed to be covered with cream, but my boyfriend decided to not waste the cream (it was delicious) and just wipe it all over the cake after assembling it, when I wasn't home. *lol*
So it was a pretty interesting experiment, and the crepes turned out thicker than I wanted, but it turned out okay. I will definitely try making it again. :D
