Creme Caramel


Serves: 6
Total Calories: 402

Ingredients

Custard:
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 teaspoons coffee powdered + 2 tablespoons water (optional)
2 cups half and half scalded
1 cup milk scalded
3 eggs whole
3 eggs yolk
1/2 cup sugar
Caramel:
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup water
Heavy cream, whipped

Directions:

For custard, add vanilla and optional coffee dissolved in 2 tablespoons water to scalded half-and-half and milk. Let cool. Beat together 3 whole eggs and 3 yolks with 1/2 cup sugar. Gradually pour half-and-half mixture into egg mixture, stirring vigorously with a whisk.

For caramel, heat 1 1/2 cups sugar in a heavy pan over very low heat. Stir constantly until sugar is melted and straw-colored. Remove pan from heat and add 1/4 cup very hot water, ever so slowly. To make syrup heavier, return pan to low heat and continue stirring until sugar mixture is color of maple syrup. Pour into a 1-quart round oven dish (or in 6 individual custard cups), rotating the mold until the entire surface is well coated.

Let the caramel set, then pour in custard through a sieve. Set mold or custard cups in a pan of hot water. Bake in 350° oven for about 45 minutes, or until a knife inserted off-center comes out clean.

Cool custard and unmold onto a serving dish just before serving. To insure that the caramel comes out intact, loosen around the edge with tip of knife, then dip mold quickly into very hot water up to the rim as you would in releasing a gelatin. Rosettes of whipped cream may be used around base of mold for decoration.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 6
Total Calories: 402
Calories from Fat: 114

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