Mr NQN and I were recenty watching the tennis. Well actually I was busy trying to figure out how to remove channel 1 (the sports channel) from our television but Mr NQN was fixated on the sport on tv. You see his doppelgänger Rafael Nadal was playing.
He was watching intently and when tried talking to him I realized that he was not responding because he was busy willing Nadal to win as he was rapidly losing his grip on his game. After staring intently at the screen as if he were his coach Mr NQN visibly relaxed when Nadal recovered from his game. He had been tensely channelling all sorts of well wishes and good vibes to Nadal in an effort to help his famous twin. I too remember watching tennis and truly thinking that if I concentrated really hard that I could somehow control the outcome of a tennis match – even if I knew that the match was pre recorded and the outcome already decided!
If I could control anyone’s mind today I would tell them that this double chocolate crêpe recipe is one of the simplest most divine desserts or breakfasts you could try. It’s a simple concept, a crêpe with the crepe made rich with cocoa and then spread with Nutella. If you have any chocolatey inclinations-and who doesn’t, doubling the chocolate factor via a pre-made spread like Nutella makes it easy and delicious. Rolled up they’re like fat chocolate cigars. No mind bending games necessary. Make these for your mother this weekend and it may help her forget about the 24 hours of labour that she endured (my mother still throws me a disgruntled side eye whenever that subject comes up).
The recipe was adapted from Bill Granger’s Bill’s Basics cookbook that I was sent around Christmas time with some adjustments. The original amount of milk specified made more of a thicker pancake batter rather than a thinner crêpe batter which was necessary for the rolling of the cigar so I adjusted it after pouring my first. That crepe or more correctly, chocolate pancake became a chef’s treat. As you do 
So tell me Dear Reader, do you think that you can control the outcome of a sporting match by concentrating?
Double Chocolate Cigar Crêpes
Recipe adapted from Bill’s Basics by Bill Granger published by Harper Collins
- 1 cup plain flour
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups buttermilk or make your own buttermilk with regular milk with a tablespoon of lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1-2 tablespoons butter for frying
- Nutella to serve-I could say a few tablespoons full but that wouldn’t leave any for eating by the spoonful would it?
1. Sift the flour and cocoa powder into a bowl (if you are making a batch of plain and chocolate like I did then sift the cocoa in at the last step).
2. In a jug add the milk and the eggs and beat until combined. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture and gradually whisk in the eggy milk mixture-gradually so that lumps don’t form. Cover with cling wrap and set aside in the fridge for 30 minutes.
3. Heat a non stick frypan on medium and when hot, add butter and give the mix another quick stir before adding some batter to the pan while tilting it so that the batter spreads out. As soon as bubbles appear on the surface, flip the crepe over and cook the other side.
4. Serve with Nutella and roll up into a cigar shape and added cocoa dusted if desired (but definitely the Nutella ).
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So delicious looking! I’m drooling.
Cheers,
Rosa
YUM!!! perhaps this would be a good weekend for this. i must buy some nutella immediately.
haha I always say that I am a bad luck charm – because whenever we go to the rugby my team loses lol
yum- I love nutella- no matter how uncouth.
Those look absolutely divine!
I attempted crepes for the first time at Christmas this year and I was surprised at how easy they are too.
Definitely need to make these this weekend
xo
-Amanda
p.s. my mom throws the same glances whenever I mention the subject – 48 hours is apparently long enough to hold a life-long grudge.
Why do women always choose to change channels when we are watching sports on TV?
If I concentrate hard enough, I can watch sports, whip up dinner and talk to Mysaucepan all at the same time
wow, chocolate heaven here! How brilliant would these be when a certain time of the month comes a calling?… soft and warm and goey
and lol, no I have never thought I could control a game by concentrating. I get kind of bored watching sports… such a girl.
Heidi xo
I have to admit watching the netball i do try and will my team on! But my husband is the worse, he can’t hear a word i say to him and he constantly yells at the tv (occassionally waking the kids up!).
Chocolate can never go wrong and having double dose of it is even better!
This will surely wake me up after a bad day. Just look at the chocolate!
oh Lorraine!!! why must you taunt me with such deliciousness this early in the morning!!! It’s not fair! x
not too sure about the nutella, but i would certainly LOVE choc chip infused ricotta in these delicious looking offerings ! B-)
I think I might have to leave this post lying around where my kids can see it for Sunday morning – thanks Lorraine.
For many years I felt very guilty for the 36 hours of labour that my mother endured on my behalf. Then…at 24, discovered she was fibbing. 6 hours. But that didn’t induce guilt so she exaggerated to get her point across.
Very sneaky. But like me, my mum has a savoury bent and I’m not sure these are for us. But it is The GD’s birthday coming up and he does love a chocolate crepe.
They look wonderful. x
A moreish idea, but, hating to rain on the parade – Nutella actually does contain trans fats (hydrogenated fats – the ‘worst’ of them all) and it might be advisable just to have it for an occasional treat!! For instance, it has been withdrawn from sale in Denmark for health reasons! lindaf perchance has the right idea?
I have read a lot about cocnentration/vibes etc sent into the ether – more friends/relatives praying for sick/unhappy people living too far to visit! There are those who believe in this. Quite frankly I sit on the fence with things I do not fully understand.
That does not stop me from starting to channel’wishes and good vibes’
in your direction, Lorraine. Just two sleeps to go! 
Stuff this with ricotta please! And ship them to me!
I wish I can control a sporting game. Ha, I could bet and win millions!
My brother thinks he can make the Richmond Tigers win by not going to their games anymore. Those crepes look sinful… I wish I could blink and they’d materialise right now!
Oh my goodness this recipe has made this pregnant lady very happy because I now have an excuse to buy the large jar of Nutella YAY! And my husband can’t tsk tsk me about it because I need the nutella for a recipe not to just eat by the spoonful double YAY! Whenever my husband is watching sport no-one or nothing exists, I could set myself on fire and he wouldn’t notice, lets hope I don’t go into labour while he’s watching the footy lol.
Purty and chocolately! I still love good ol’ lemon and sugar though
Mmmm Nutella. I haven’t had nutella in years! For that reason alone I should make these crepes!
Chocolate crepes! how divine. I wonder if that’ll keep the men off the sports channel?
Yum yum yum! And yes I do that with tennis too it’s totally crazy but can’t help it when it’s one of my favourite players
Yummo chocolate crepes!!! Great idea to spread with nutella!!!
love your work
Yummy crepes! Haha I’m so lucky my partner doesn’t watch much sports!
it’s decided that this will be breakfast tmr
we played a lot of boxing video games when we were little and most of the time i believed i won coz i totally focused on my boxer
The best way to remove Channel 1 from your TV is with an axe!
Lorraine, I’ve died and gone to chocolate heaven – these look so good! I even have Nutella at the moment left over from the Le Papillon cake. I know I can change the outcome by concentrating
These look so very very good, and very very bad at the same time! I didn’t know you could make buttermilk like that, I’ll definitely use that tip in the future.
Want Nutella now…those pics are amazing!
I have a love thing going with breakfast crepes and I have nutella on hand always. Perfect. Now to just get the sports channels off my cable and I’m happy.
Oh definately do a lot of vibe sending when willing my pick to win. Biggest memories of this is in the early hours of the morning watching a world cup decider, begging the universe to make my team win.
Nutella on crepes – devine, reminds me of all those crepe booth dotted around Paris
Mr. NQN sounds like me when I was a teenager. On Sunday morning, I would wake up for “Breakfast at Wimbledon” to watch the finals. Of course, in California, it was tape delayed and the winner already decided. I would beg my Dad not to tell me who won even after he heard it on the radio. He knew to just let me sit, transfixed in front of the TV until it was over.
YUM! looks great Lorraine. So deliciously simple
this looks delicious lorraine yum
This looks great – another one to try. I stopped watching tennis when Jannik Noah (how do you spell that?) stopped playing.
How ca nanything with chocolate be better? Adding more chocolate of course! Mmmmm…..delicious.
My mum has a recliner rocker chair, and whenever she was watching something tense like her sports team, she would start to rock. The tenser the moment, the faster the rock. I’m sure that this spurred her team on the greater efforts and won many victory as her passion rocked it’s way out into the universe!
Haha! I do actually find myself hoping that they still might win even though I know the outcome. And for some stupid reason, I’m still surprised lol. Oh well, I guess that means I have hope
Oh no, another nutella recipe! These are the downfall of my diet
I came across a recipe for making nutella chips to use in baking. Have to try that too.
The track record: if I watch my favorite cricket team on TV at home, they will win. If my husband watches his favorite soccer team on TV anywhere other than home, they will lose. Well, I guess we can sit home and eat nutella crepes.
these look absolutely perfect for Mother’s Day ! i know i’m going to be making pancakes..
Nice! I eat nutella as dessert…now this one is real! Thanks for sharing.
this is like a super good idea for mothers day!
Well even though these look delish , my eldest daughter has told me that I’ll be having Crepes Suzette for breakfast , needless to day I’m hanging put for Mother’s Day breakfast !!!!
I only watch the FIFA world cup matches re: sport on Tv and yes I always try to ‘will’ my team/s to win. Just a bit of fun really but I can get really LOUD when Italy plays lol
Absolutely! If I concentrate hard enough, I can turn the TV off
P.S. These look spectacular, but alas! If I made them for Mum I’d be thumbing my nose at her rather than thanking her… dairy and wheat allergies and all!
I love chocolate and I cam only imagine how good this must be with double chocolate!
OMG! This looks like a totally jazzed up version of the Banana Praline Crepes I make at work! (Yes, I work at Max Brenner. And know how to make everything. What of it?
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come on !!
Who can resist ?!! this is torture !!
Pierre
I just showed this to my hubby. Here’s hoping he takes the hint!
I just hope your husband doesn’t share Nadal’s freaky forearm. That thing is scary. Double chocolate crepes however, are not
It looks delicious, Lorraine! Might try this at the weekend
This would be a perfect way to start and end Mother’s Day. xoxo Mum
How deliciously decadent. I see we are both loving Nutella at the moment
*kisses* HH
Simple and delicious! Chocolate makes everything better
Love the idea of double chocolate with a bit of Nutella.
Double chocolate? Oh my word, I’ve heard enough and I’m in, lol! They’re gorgeous and no doubt taste fantastic, Lorraine!
~~I am drooling on my computer table right now…I have gained 3 pounds looking at the photos. I am so WANTING these chocolate crepes right this minute. GORGEOUSLY GORGEOUS. WOW!!!
A number of savory crepe restaurants have opened in my area in the last couple of years and I was just telling someone that I’m not sure that I’m totally loving the whole crepe phenomenon. This, on the other hand, is a crepe I can get behind!
Anything doused in Nutella is bound to be good
I don’t watch a lot of sport (except the Tour de France when it’s on…I don’t know why, but I can’t get enough of it!) but I remember years ago watch Pat Rafter play tennis, and every time I flicked it on he’d start going really badly…so I gave up watching 
Chocolate pancakes and nutella sounds excellent – I recently discovered a cart near work that does quick cheap nutella crepes – a dangerous discovery – as is this recipe
No matter how hard husband concentrates on a rugby match, these chocolate crepes would turn his head! Mmmm and they are so my kind of snack, too. And I think I can control anything by concentrating
Heavenly!!
These look so good. I love crepes and don’t know why I don’t make them at home.
Made this for mum today, she loved it! Thanks for the fantastic recipe
Yum Lorraine – these look great.
who serve their crepes with a homemade duo of dark and white chocolate mousse…..ooh la la – c’est magnifique! 
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We have some gorgeous Swiss French friends (bonjour Pierre Alain et Nathalie
I agree, you would need more than a couple of tablespoons of Nutella
i’ve been conquered by crepes time and time again, but i haven’t given up. these are too tasty to ignore!
Nutella on pancakes sounds like a wonderful idea! Dessert is planned for tonight now!
Well.. your words convinced me Lorraine! It’s tomorrow’s breakfast!
These look delicious Lorraine. Tomorrow’s breakfast for sure!
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