Holy Cake! 18 Crazy Crepe Cake Recipes to Make for Your Sweetie
There’s nothing quite like a sky-high layer cake to turn heads. Shake up your stacked cake game with an unexpected, straight-from-the-griddle twist. What? That’s right. These 18 crepe-based creations are totally stunning, without even having to fire up the oven. Bon appetit!
1. Pistachio Coconut Crepe Cake (Gluten-Free): You’ll need fewer than ten ingredients to makes this delicious, nutty and totally impressive creation. (via The Primitive Palate)
2. Strawberries and Cream Crepe Cake: Freeze-dried strawberries are the key to making a cake that bursts with berry flavor. (via The Worktop)
3. Mini Funfetti Mille Crepe Cake: With alternating layers of jam and sprinkles-enhanced crepes, this is one cake you can certainly rationalize digging into first thing in the morning. (via Young Austinian)
4. Chocolate Mousse Crepe Cake: Top this double chocolate cake with pomegranate or your fave fruit — sliced strawberries and raspberries work just as beautifully when in season. (via Sweet and Savory by Shinee)
5. Green Tea Crepe Cake: Each bite of this outstanding cake features a trace of green tea flavor. The vanilla-laced, whipped cream-lightened custard filling is sure to elicit rave reviews. (via Miss Hangry Pants)
6. Dulce de Leche Crepe Cake With Walnuts: When creamy caramel and sweet crepes team up, you know it’s gotta be good. (via Divine Cuisine)
7. 100-Layer Cake: Are you daring enough to tower your crepes and raspberry curd filling 100 layers tall? Even if you’re not, a shorter stack is still one tempting treat to behold. (via Brit + Co)
8. Cranberry Hazelnut Crepe Cake: A few spoonfuls of hazelnut flour and bourbon add a little extra oomph in the flavor department, making the cranberry sauce and whipped cream cheese filling a welcome accompaniment for this festive dessert. (via Blahnik Baker)
9. Chocolate Oatmeal Crepe Cake: Grind your own oat flour for this rich, chocolatey cake. It’s a sneaky way to get your whole grain on, and no one (but the cook) will be the wiser. (via Oatgasm)
10. Carrot Crepe Cake With Pineapple Cream: No question, the Easter bunny would approve of this little number. All other carrot cake recipes, take note: Your days are officially numbered. (via Hungry Rabbit NYC)
11. Crepes Suzette Cake (Gluten-Free): We love how all the elements of a classic crepe dish are reimagined to make this gorgeous cake. (via The Little White Kitchen)
12. Smoked Salmon Crepe Cake: Here, brown butter crepes, dill crème fraîche and thinly cut smoked salmon come together to make an outstanding savory slice. (via Chew Town)
13. Biscoff Raspberry Crepe Cake: Cookie butter buttercream is a tasty filling on its own, but homemade raspberry sauce adds a dose of elegance, taking this stack to the next level. (via Whipperberry)
14. Coffee Crepe Cake: Featuring a hint of coffee flavor in the pastry cream filling, this cake is a fantastic choice for dessert or a morning indulgence. (via Joy of Kosher)
15. Crème Brûlée Crepe Cake: Two French classics collide to make one heck of a pastry. Our forks are at the ready. (via The Baker Chick)
16. Lemon Mascarpone Crepe Cake: Frosted on all sides with a vanilla-scented mascarpone whipped cream, this fluffy cake will surprise everyone when the many layers inside are revealed. (via Martha Stewart)
17. Lavender Honey Crepe Cake: This refined-sugar-free cake is sweetened with honey, and would be a terrific centerpiece to serve at your next afternoon tea. (via The House That Lars Built)
18. Bananas Foster Crepe Cake: It’s just about impossible not to go bananas for this Bananas Foster-inspired cake. It had us at rum-spiked caramel. (via For the Love of the South)
Ready to get stacking? Have some sky-high recipes of your own? Share your many-layered cake creations with us in the comments below.