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How To Make French Breakfast

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How To Make French Breakfast
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A Traditional French breakfast recipe including freshly squeezed orange juice and homemade hot chocolate with whipped cream. Provides that perfect European experience. Delight in our French Breakfast recipe. Enlarge A Traditional French breakfast recipe including freshly squeezed orange juice and homemade hot chocolate with whipped cream. Provides that perfect European experience. Delight in our French Breakfast recipe.
Serves:
4
Preparation Time:
40 minutes
Cooking Time:
1 hour
Total Time:
1 hour 40 minutes

Step 1: Make the crêpes

  • 4 glasses of freshly squeezed orange juice
  • A selection of breads and croissants
  • A selection of cheeses including brie, Emmental, Roquefort and Camembert
  • for the crêpes:
  • 3 eggs
  • 500 ml milk
  • 300 g flour, sifted
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 50 g butter
  • fresh mixed berries
  • maple syrup
  • for the hot chocolate:
  • 300 ml double cream
  • 600 ml milk
  • 2 cinnamon sticks
  • 4 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 2 tsp vanilla essence
  • 100 g dark chocolate, finely chopped
  • a little fresh whipped cream
  • 1 butter knife
  • 1 cheese cutter
  • 1 cheese knife
  • 1 mixing bowl
  • 1 whisk
  • 1 spatula
  • 1 non stick frying pan
  • 1 saucepan
  • 1 ladle

Step 2: Make the hot chocolate

Into a pan add the double cream, milk, vanilla essence and the cinnamon sticks. Bring this to the boil and then simmer for 5 mins. Remove the cinnamon sticks and add the chopped chocolate and cocoa powder. Whisk together, simmer for a further two minutes and remove from the heat.

Step 3: Serve

Pour the orange juice. Top the crêpes with fruit and maple syrup and add whipped cream to the top of the hot chocolate.
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Tips & Comments
  2. paulyd2611

    i tried macking de crepes and der realy realy nice ,5 stars

  4. metulj227

    this video is funny... It's the first time I see cheese on a breakfast table though... I usually have a cup of coffee with bread & butter or a piece of cake or brioche

  5. Anonymous

    I think it looks delicious thought definitely a bit too much for someone who want to keep in shape!

  6. Anonymous

    Very good must try this

  7. Anonymous

    breakfast is supposed to be healthy and wake you up.. Not make you fat and want to go back to bed haha!

  8. Anonymous

    French breakfast = Fag+Coffee+Croisant+another fag for good measure!

  9. Anonymous

    french people eat bread butter jam honey hot chocolate tea coffee cereal crispbread cheese and croissants

  10. Anonymous

    THIS IS NOT FRENCH... FRENCH BREAKFST IS BREAD WITH NUTELLA, BUTTER AND JAM WITH WEAK COFFEE FROM A BOWL. CROISSANTS ARE EATTEN ON WEEKENDS