Before baking
For Christmas my husband I love to make Crème Brûlée. This French dessert is one of our favorites and the recipe is very simple.Ingredients:
2 cups heavy cream
5 egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
~1/2 cup or so of light brown sugar
5 - 7oz ramekins
water halfway up the sides
-Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). -Whisk the cream, egg yolks, sugar, and vanilla extract together in a bowl. Mix it all up until it is creamy. -Pour mixture into ramekins (ceramic dishes). I distributed the mixture between 5 7-ouncers. -Place the ramekins in a 8.5x11 baking pan. Fill the baking pan with about 3 cups of hot water. You want the water to be about halfway up the sides of the ramekins. -Place the pan with the ramekins in the oven for one hour or so. After 1 hour or so check them every ten minutes. They are done when you can stick a knife in one and it comes out clean.
Done! Enjoy!
-Remove the ramekins from the baking pan, set them on the counter, and let them cool for about 15-20 minutes. -Put Crème Brûlée in the refrigerator for 8 hours or overnight.Before eating, remove from refrigerator, sprinkle a THIN layer of the light brown sugar on the top of each. Now torch it! Or, if you don't have a torch, you can put them under the broiler for a minute or until the sugar is caramelized. This recipe from CDKitchen.
