I made this recipe the other day to my "craving gourmet son". Sometimes he feels like eating some difficult to find things (unless I make them!). So after a week of begging I had him help me bake it. This is a French dessert. It's also a Spanish dish, it's called "catalan cream" in that country. Brûlée means "burned", because the sprinkled sugar on top is burned. You can use a cook's torch to burn the sugar. I don't know the other way, using some metallic utensil.
Ingredients:
3 egg yolks
100 ml (3 oz.) milk
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon sugar to sprinkle
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 250 oF.
Mix the egg yolks, milk, cream, sugar and vanilla. Pour in porcelain ramekins (or other oven-safe cup). Place the ramekins with the cream in a rectangular cake pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.
Once out of the oven, sprinkle the remaining sugar over each ramekin with the cream. Using the kitchen torch, burn the sugar until it turns golden. Let them cool for a while, or take them to the fridge for a couple of hours before serving. Note that if the creme brûlée is in the fridge for too long, the burned sugar is no longer crunchy.
