Caramelized Baked Custard
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 59.14 ml sugar, caramelized**
- 2 eggs
- 59.14 ml sugar
- 0.61 ml salt
- 354.88 ml milk, very hot (or regular soy milk)
- 4.92 ml vanilla extract
- 78.78 ml flaked coconut (optional)
- nutmeg
directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Lightly grease a 1 quart baking dish or 4 ramekins.
- Fill a 9x13 pan (or any shallow pan large enough to hold the baking dish) with 1 inch of hot water and set it in the oven.
- **To caramelize the sugar: Melt the sugar in a heavy bottomed skillet without stirring. Swirl the sugar in the pan as it melts till caramel colored.
- Pour about 1 tablespoons caramelized sugar into each ramekin, or all into baking dish and quickly swirl around to coat bottom and partly up sides.
- The caramel will harden, but the custard will soften it as it bakes.
- Beat the eggs together, then add the sugar and salt.
- Slowly stir in the hot milk, stirring constantly.
- Add the vanilla and coconut, if using.
- Strain into the baking dish (if desired).
- I usually just pour it all inches.
- Sprinkle the top with nutmeg.
- Put into the pan with hot water.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes, until a knife comes out clean.
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Reviews
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Delicious! I made the recipe exactly as described, although I'm not sure what happened to the sugar. After baking in the ramekins, the custard flipped out easy, but most of the sugar got hardened and stayed on the bottom of the glass. There was still a nice syrupy liquid that poured out all over the custard making it exactly like a flan, so maybe it cooked right. The hard sugar part did come out of the ramekin real easy in the dishwasher. I will definately be making this time and time again! Thanks so much!
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I usually love recipes that are completely from scratch (I still love them actually) but right now my focus is on having any kind of food ready by mealtime! It's a little crazy here lately. Every summer we have a huge organic garden, apple orchard and raspberry and blueberry patches, along with a woods full of wild foods waiting for me to learn what they are so I can collect them. I'm learning about wild mushrooms first, so if anyone has any tips, let me know. We also eat wild venison which my husband and I hunt ourselves. It's our favorite meat, since it's lean, organic and cheap! Some of my hobbies are: hiking, biking, rock climbing, gardening, playing in the water with my kids, or just swinging in the hammock with a good book. I go stir crazy if I spend too much time inside.