For Hinamatsuri or Hanami, Cherry Blossom Crepes
- 60 grams Cake flour
- 1 dash less than 2 tablespoons Sugar
- 120 ml Milk (or soy milk)
- 1 Egg
- 15 grams Margarine
- 1 to 1 1/2 leaves Salt-cured cherry leaves (minced)
- 1 Small amount of red food colouring
- 1 dash Water
- 1/2 tsp Matcha
- 30 grams Margarine
- 120 grams Canned boiled adzuki beans
- 1 to 1 1/2 leaves Salt-cured cherry leaves (minced)
- 1 Ground white sesame seeds
- 1 Margarine
- 1 Vegetable oil
- Put the cake flour and sugar into a bowl and mix well.
- Add milk and egg to the bowl from Step 1 and mix until it's no longer floury.
- Strain the batter through a fine-mesh strainer or sieve.
- Melt the margarine in a microwave or over a double broiler and mix into the batter.
- Let the batter rest for about 30 minutes.
- Rinse the salt off the salt-cured cherry leaves (if they are very salty, let them soak in water for a while), pat dry with a paper towel, then mince.
- Take out a bit more than 1 tablespoon of the batter from Step 3 and set aside.
- Divide the rest into 2 portions.
- Add a little crepe batter to the matcha and mix to dissolve, then add one portion of batter.
- Add the minced cherry leaves from Step 4 to the other portion of batter with a tiny bit of red food coloring dissolved in water.
- Heat a non-stick frying pan over very low heat.
- Add a little vegetable oil, and wipe out the excess.
- Pour the batter to make crepes about 9 cm in diameter using slightly less than 1 tablespoon of batter at a time to the frying pan.
- Cook each side.
- (Make a total of 8 pink, 8 green, and 1 white crepe - the white one should be a slightly larger than the others.)
- Cream the margarine and mix it with the boiled adzuki beans and half of the chopped cherry leaves from Step 4.
- (Reserve about 1 teaspoon of the cherry leaves for Steps 10 and 12.)
- Layer the sakura (cherry pink) and matcha (green) crepes so that they are overlapping each other.
- Put about 1/2 tablespoon of the anko-butter (margarine) filling in the center, and fold in half as shown.
- Cut cherry flower shapes out of the white crepe.
- Use some of the anko-butter from Step 8 on the back and stick the flowers onto the folded crepes from Step 9 .
- Spread a little margarine on the flower shapes, and sprinkle on some sesame seeds.
- (I also recommend sprinkling on some edible gold leaf.)
- If you put a little bit of the anko-butter from Step 8 between the sakura and matcha crepes, they will stick together and not come apart.
- These crepes also go well with fruit!
- Make one with the matcha crepe on the outside, then sandwich a strawberry in the middle to make a pair of hina dolls.
flour, sugar, milk, egg, margarine, salt, amount of red food colouring, water, margarine, adzuki beans, salt, ground white sesame seeds, margarine, vegetable oil
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/158884-for-hinamatsuri-or-hanami-cherry-blossom-crepes (may not work)