Classic crème caramel
Classic crème caramel

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, classic crème caramel. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Light creamy silky smooth textured classic crème caramel. It's everybody's favourite dessert and the fun thing is, it only requires a few ingredients. Take the crème caramels out of the oven, remove the ramekins from the tray and set on a cooling rack.

Classic crème caramel is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Classic crème caramel is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook classic crème caramel using 11 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Classic crème caramel:
  1. Take For the caramel
  2. Prepare 80 granulated sugar
  3. Get 4 tbsp hot water
  4. Prepare The Milk
  5. Take 400 ml milk
  6. Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
  7. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
  8. Get The eggs
  9. Prepare 2 whole eggs
  10. Get 4 egg yolks
  11. Prepare 2 1/2 tbsp sugar

Learn how to make Classic Crème Caramel. Dazzle your dinner party guests with classic creme caramel, the Chanel suit of desserts! Set aside to cool and become hard, then butter the sides of the ramekins above the level of the caramel. For our crème caramel recipe, we wanted a custard that was creamy and tender enough to melt in our mouths, yet firm enough to unmold without collapsing on the serving plate.

Instructions to make Classic crème caramel:
  1. Heat the oven to 140 degree celsius and grease your ramekin or bowl with butter, prepare for the boiling water
  2. Place the sugar in a small non-stick pan and heat on a medium heat until the sugar turns brown.
  3. The heating process will take about 5 minutes on a gentle heat. As soon as the sugar starts to turn brown, tilt the pan to distribute the liquid (you may get parts where the sugar hasn’t turned brown yet.
  4. As soon as it starts to bubble, add 4 Tablespoons of boiling water (I measure the water into a cup so I can tip it in one go).
  5. As soon as you have added the water, swirl it around in the pan so it is combined with the sugar and turn off the heat.
  6. Pour the caramel in to ramekins or bowl. Make sure the caramel covers the entire bottom of ramekins or bowl
  7. Place the ramekins in the baking tray and add cold water to the tray so the water level comes 2 - 3 cm up the sides of the ramekins.
  8. Heat the milk and sugar in a pan on gentle heat. Keep the measuring jug that you used for your milk handy as we will need it.
  9. Whisk the 2 eggs and 4 egg yolks together with the sugar on a medium speed. Try not to whisk so hard you get loads of bubbles. We don't want bubbles! When the milk has started to boil, transfer back to your measuring jug.
  10. Keeping your mixer on a LOW speed, very slowly add the milk until everything is combined. Then add the vanilla
  11. Place your sieve over the measuring jug and transfer your mixture back into the jug through the sieve.
  12. Pour the mixture into ramekins
  13. Make sure your water level in the baking tin is up to 2-3 cm high. Cover the baking tin with the sheet of foil and gently transfer to the oven and let it gently cook for 45 minutes. This method of cooking of often called Bain Marie.
  14. Once 45 minutes is up, remove the tray from the oven and leave as it is with the foil over it until it cools. The caramel will still be cooking gently.
  15. Now this is the hardest bit of the whole recipe. When cool, cover with some plastic wrap and leave in the fridge to chill for a minimum 3-4 hours.
  16. When you are ready to serve, use a thin bladed sharp knife and run the blade around the sides of the ramekins, taking care not to wobble or slip with the knife - this will damage the set custard inside.

Give this French dessert a go - crème caramel uses the bain-marie cooking method so is a great way to Put the caramel-filled ramekins in a roasting tin and divide the strained milk mix between them. A creme caramel is a baked custard dessert topped with runny caramel sauce. This used to be the most popular dessert in French restaurants due to the profit margin and convenience of being. Previous Next Show Grid. "This is my all-time favourite dessert. For years I've made it with a half cream and half milk, which is the recipe I inherited from.

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