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carrot cake crepes garnished with drizzle, carrot greens and lemon zest

Carrot Cake Crepes for Your Easter Brunch

These delicious Carrot Cake Crepes are full of flavor with their warm spices and sweet lemony cream cheese filling. They’re gluten free, but so good, you’ll never know it!  
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 6
Calories 485 kcal

Ingredients
  

Crepes

  • 1 Cup Finely Shredded Carrots
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 ¼ Cup Milk
  • ¼ Cup Butter (plus more for buttering crepe pan)
  • ½ tsp Vanilla
  • 1 Cup Gluten Free 1 to 1 Flour
  • 2 Tbsp Packed Brown Sugar
  • 2 Tbsp Granulated Sugar
  • ¾ tsp Cinnamon
  • ½ tsp Ginger
  • ¼ tsp Nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp Cloves
  • Pinch Salt

Filling and Drizzle

  • 8 oz Cream Cheese
  • ½ Cup Frozen Whipped Topping
  • ¾ Cup Powdered Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla
  • 2 Tbsp Lemon Juice
  • 2 tsp Lemon Zest
  • ¼ Cup Finely Chopped Walnuts
  • 2 tsp Milk
  • 6 Drops Yellow Food Coloring
  • 2 Drops Red Food Coloring

Garnish

  • 12 Stems Carrot Greens or Mint 2 Inch Stems
  • 1 tsp Lemon Zest

Instructions
 

Make the Batter

  • Sauté carrots in ¼ cup melted butter on medium heat for 3 – 4 minutes until they start to soften.
  • Remove from heat and set aside to let cool.
  •  In a medium bowl, add gf 1 to 1 flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and a pinch of salt and whisk together until well combined.
  •  In a large bowl whisk together milk, vanilla, and the buttery carrots.
  • Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs and then stir into the batter.
  • Refrigerate the batter for at least 30 minutes, but up to overnight.
  • When you are ready to make the crepes, pull the batter from the fridge and set aside.

Make the Filling

  • Mix softened cream cheese, frozen whipped topping, powdered sugar, vanilla, lemon juice and lemon zest on low to medium-low, using a stand or handheld mixer.
  •  Remove ½ Cup of filling and set aside. This will be for the drizzle.

Make the Crepes

  •  Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and place a large cookie sheet on the middle rack.
  • Warm a crepe pan, stove top griddle or large skillet on medium heat.
  • Remove pan from heat, butter the pan and add 1/3 cup of batter, immediately and quickly spreading the batter around using a crepe spreader or the back of a spoon so the crepe is as thin as possible.
  • Place pan back on heat and warm crepe for 2-3 minutes until it just starts to lightly brown.
  • Flip crepe and cook for an additional 30 seconds to 1 minute.
  •  Place crepe in oven to keep warm and repeat steps 4-7 until all batter is used.
  • Pull a crepe from the oven, cut in half and spread 1 Tbsp of filling in middle of crepe half, leaving 1 inch around the edges.
  • Sprinkle 1 tsp of finely chopped walnuts on the filling if desired.
  • Fold the top of the rounded edges in, holding them in place with the filling.
  • Starting at one end, roll the crepe to create your carrot shape.
  • Repeat steps 1-4 with each crepe half, placing them back in the oven to keep them warm.

Make the Drizzle

  • Heat remaining half cup of filling on low, stirring regularly.
  • Stirring 2 drops of red and 6 drops of yellow food coloring to turn the drizzle orange.
  • Stir in 2 tsp of milk to thin it out.
  • While it's still warm and thinned out, drizzle the carrots with the remaining filling using a quick back and forth motion.

Garnish the Crepes

  • Rince the carrot greens or mint leaves and cut about 12 stems (enough for each “carrot”), each containing a few leaves and leaving at least a half inch of stem.
  • Add the carrot greens or mint to the top of each carrot crepe by tucking in the stem and allowing the leaves to stick out of the top.
  • Sprinkle Crepes with lemon zest

Serve and Enjoy!

    Notes

    *** Make sure you add eggs last to the batter. Mixing the rest of the ingredients together first cools down the carrots and prevents the eggs from cooking.
    *** These crepes may be slightly thicker than traditional crepes due to the thickness of the carrots.
    *** For optimal texture when rewarming leftovers, store crepes separately from filling.
    Keyword Breakfast, Brunch, Carrot Cake, Crepes, Easter, Gluten Free, Recipe, Spring