Delectable Crepes with Orange Curd Recipe

Brunch is everything! I love a unique dish in the morning. This remarkably easy crepe recipe puts a modern twist on the classic French Crepe with Lemon Curd Recipe. I love lemon. I especially love lemon curd and other desserts with the tart fruit, but creating this recipe with orange instead was so much fun!

Sometimes just changing one simple ingredient can make a whole recipe so exciting to the taste buds. So let’s get started with this Delectable Crepes with Orange Curd Recipe.

Now if you haven’t made crepes at home before, you do not need an expensive crepe maker to do it. You just need a small non-stick saucepan that has sloped walls (no 90° edges to the walls) that’s flat and not textured. And you need a stove top or hot plate! Viola.

Crepe makers are fun, but they are not necessary.

The trick for me is to have a nice evenly heating stove top and be sure to add just a spritz of non-stick spray before adding any new crepe batter to the saucepan.

Now as far as making the curd, orange is a beautiful flavor, but even orange could do with just a zing of lemon! So we added just a touch of both lemon and orange to this recipe. In fact, I think all citrus makes lovely curd and sometimes even lovelier when in combination. I’d love to try a lemon-lime curd, a kumquat curd, and I would die for a grapefruit curd! You could create any with this recipe.

You can also add a few optional ingredients to this recipe like honey, slices of fresh orange, and/or whipped cream to give a little pop to this recipe. I also added just a touch of fresh orange zest to this recipe as well. I haven’t tried it, but dried orange slices would be a gorgeous way to present this Crepes with Orange Curd Recipe.

As far as when to make them, crepes keep decently well, much like pancakes, so it would be okay to make them a few minutes or up to 1 hour before you serve them. Just don’t add the orange curd, whipped cream, honey or any other finishing touches to the crepes before you are ready to serve them!

These pair perfectly with a Blood Orange & Strawberry Sangria or this Pink Garden Cocktail that has grapefruit juice and rosemary simple syrup.