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Recipe Creme Brulee (Christmas)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 6 egg yolks
- 6 tablespoons white sugar, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
Preparing/Cooking:
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
- Beat egg yolks, 4 tablespoons sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl until thick and creamy.
- Pour cream into a saucepan and stir over low heat until it almost comes to boil.
- Remove the cream from heat immediately.
- Stir cream into the egg yolk mixture; beat until combined.
- Pour cream mixture into the top of a double boiler.
- Stir over simmering water until mixture lightly coats the back of a spoon; approximately 3 minutes.
- Remove mixture from heat immediately and pour into a shallow heat-proof dish.
- Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool to room temperature.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour, or overnight.
- Preheat oven to broil.
- In a small bowl combine remaining 2 tablespoons white sugar and brown sugar.
- Sift this mixture evenly over custard.
- Place dish under broiler until sugar melts, about 2 minutes.
- Watch carefully so as not to burn.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- Refrigerate until custard is set again.
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