Brulée appetite
Quick and easy to make.
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 2 Hours
Cooking time: 45 Minutes
Ingredients:
- 4 Free-range egg yolks
- 50g Sugar, plus extra for caramelising
- 2 Cups cream
- 1 t Vanilla extract
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 150°C.
- Beat the egg yolks with the sugar until light and creamy.
- Heat the cream in a saucepan over a medium heat until a skin forms on the surface.
- Remove from the heat and add the vanilla extract or the seeds of 1/2 vanilla pod.
- Pour the warm vanilla cream into the egg yolk mixture, whisking continually. Strain the mixture, divide between 4 ramekins and cover with foil.
- Place into a bain marie (larger container half-filled with water) and bake for 45-50 minutes, or until set. Chill for 2 hours.
- Sprinkle over a thin layer of caster sugar and blowtorch until caramalised. Allow to cool slightly before serving. If you don't have a blowtorch, melt a little sugar in a pan until golden and caramelised and carefully spoon over the crème brulées.
** Tips **
- Who doesn't love cracking the perfectly caramelised layer on the top of a crème brulée to get a silky custard beneath? And you don't have to be a chef to get it right - but you will need a blowtorch. Get one.
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