Hampton Lane Crêpes Box Review & Coupon

Hamptons Lane is a luxury monthly subscription box catering to cooking enthusiasts. Each month Hamptons Lane sends out themed recipes along with 4-7 curated artisanal ingredients and a kitchen tool that you can use to make delicious food at home. Once you sign up, each month you’ll receive an email describing that month’s new box. You can choose to skip that month without any penalty (no later than the fifth of the month), substitute another box for the current offering or, if need be, you can cancel at any time.

Each plain box arrives with well packed goodies and a beautiful book that includes both notes about the items in the box and recipes you can use to create delicious food at home using your new food and tools.

This box’s theme was Crêpes! The box arrived with a recipe book, a crêpe pan, a spreader, crêpe mix, chocolate sauce, orange marmalade and herbes de provençe.

The beautiful recipe book included five recipes and notes about each of the ingredients included with the collection. In preparing the box, the curator wanted to make it easy to make perfect crêpes while also challenging her customers to move beyond nutella when making sweet crêpes.This De Buyer crêpe pan ($24.95) is the pan of choice for crêpe makers worldwide. Like a cast iron pot or a wok, it requires seasoning before its first use and should only be “washed” using hot water. Directions for seasoning are included in the literature on the pan itself.

To make the crêpe-making process as easy as possible for her subscribers, the curator included a mix especially made for crêpes. Made from stone-burr mill-ground Carolina corn, this mix is extremely easy to use–just add eggs, milk, water and melted butter and mix together until smooth.

This spreader is the perfect size for the enclosed pan. It’s intended to help you make even, perfectly flat crepes.

The CC Made Dark Chocolate Caramel Sauce ($5) looks thick in the jar, but immediately melts when placed on a hot crêpe. Made with Guittard cocoa and just a touch of Sel Gris, it tastes more of chocolate than caramel, but is still yummy.

Eat This’s Orange Saffron Cardamom Marmalade ($10) is unbelievably good. Not typically a fan of orange marmalade, I thought “well, I’m writing this review, so I better taste it.” Then I got blown away. I couldn’t stop eating it. It was one of the most delicious things I have ever put in my mouth. Seriously. I wanted a gallon of the stuff. No wonder it won the AllRecipes.com Condiment Smackdown.

This Herbes de Provençe blend combines savory, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, oregano, lavender, tarragon, basil, fennel, dill and chervil. It works well in a number of dishes including the savory crêpes suggested in the enclosed recipe book.

I was so happy to receive this bottle of The Spice House’s Herbes de Provençe ($3.99). I took mine camping about a month ago and used it to prep a dish in a friend’s RV. I think I donated my old jar to the RV gods. I figured it out when I went looking in my kitchen for my bottle and had to make my own blend. Not any more! Thanks, Hamptons Lane!

Wondering when I was going to embark upon my crêpe making adventure, I heard from my babysitter who canceled on us at the last minute. So instead of going out on a date, my husband and I decided to have a crêpe making date at home. I whipped out a bottle of champagne, got Yahtzee ready and started thinking about what I wanted in my crêpes.

The first order of business: make a yummy adult whipped cream. I combined heavy whipping cream, sour cream, sugar and Chambord and whipped it all up into a tasty treat. (I would have added Grand Marnier instead to help play off of the orange saffron cardamom marmalade, but alas, I was out, and the stores were all closed. It was late on a Sunday.) While my whipped cream was setting in the fridge, I started making the crêpes.

After preparing my new crêpe pan, I got busy making crêpes! I loved watching them cook.

First, I made chocolate orange cadamom crêpes by combining the CC’s Dark Chocolate Caramel Sauce and the Orange Saffron Cardamom Marmalade as the filling. I dusted powdered sugar over the crêpe at the end. While yummy, I wanted more marmalade and less chocolate in my crêpe.

Going for a different approach, this time I combined my special whipped cream with berries. I loved this! It brought me back to Saturdays as a child, when my mom would drive us across town to get fresh strawberries and cream for breakfast. I could have eaten a hundred of these, but I wanted to know how the cream would taste when combined with the marmalade.

It was delicious. Light enough not to overpower the marmalade but still interesting in its own right, I enjoyed this combination very much.

What a fun night! My husband and I decided we’ll have to do this again. Soon. Next time, I’ll make my whipped cream with Grand Marnier to see how we like it.

I’m loving these Hamptons Lane boxes! They’re so fun that I’d like to buy some of the old boxes on my own to try out new skills and recipes. So far, every recipe I’ve made with them has been absolutely divine.

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