Baked Apple Custard

Submitted by ellie_

"Easy traditional custard with a difference that children like. Recipe source: Bon Appetit (November 1981)"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 25mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
• 1 -2 apple, peeled,cored and cut into 24 crescent shaped pieces
• 4 eggs
• 1⁄3 cup sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 cups milk (or for richer custard use half and half)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• nutmeg

directions

1. Melt butter (or margarine) in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add apple slices and saute for 1 minute.
2. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and cook 1 minute longer.
3. Reduce heat to low, uncover and let apples cook until light brown (3-5 minutes). Set aside.
4. Preheat oven to 325-degrees F.
5. Butter 6 custard cups (or butter a 1 1/2 quart casserole dish).
6. In a bowl, whisk eggs until thick. Add sugar and salt and beat well.
7. Blend in milk (or half and half) and vanilla.
8. Pour custard into prepared custard cups.
9. Set custard cups into large shallow baking pan.
10. Add enough boiling water to pan so water comes up halfway up sides of cups.
11. Bake for 1 hour or until a knife inserted in center of custard comes clean. (If using the casserole dish bake for 1 1/2 hours).
12. Remove cups from water and let cool to room temperature.
13. Top each custard with 4 (reserved) overlapping apple slices.
14. Refrigerate until cold or overnight.
15. Sprinkle with nutmeg before serving.

Reviews

[castlouis_12292892]

Made this last night. It was very hard not to eat the entire dish! We had whipped cream on it, and I forgot the extra apples. No, my apples were not perfect slices, they were the last of a bushel, soft, and somewhat bruised. Still, it tasted wonderful, and very creamy. I only had approximately 1/2 cup milk, so most was fat free half & half. This is most definitely a keeper!

 

[FlemishMinx]

Very nice and easy to make dessert. I also baked this in a casserole dish and would recommend that anyone doing so definitely use at least two apples. I used only one, very thinly sliced, and they disintegrated after the first step (my fault), which made it difficult to get a nice even layer on the finished custard. Using two apples and more thickly sliced would prevent this problem, I think. Following Barb Gertz' advice, I also added a bit of nutmeg, cinnamon and cardamom to the apples-they weren't pretty, but very tasty ! I also used half cream and half milk, and the custard was indeed creamy. Thanks for posting !

 

[Barb G.]

Delicious, so easy to made. Don't let all the steps through you off on making this yummy custard toped with apples. I made it using the cassrole dish took just over 1 hour to bake. Used splenda instead of sugar and sprinkled a little fresh grated nutmeg over the top before baking, also added a little nutmeg & splenda to the apples after cooking. I think cinnamon would also be a good spice to use, will try it next time. Thank you ellie we really enjoyed this recipe.