Caramel and Pear Flan
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Brush 6 (1/2 cups) ramekins with the melted butter and set aside.
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FOR THE FLAN:
- Whisk together the eggs plus the two egg yolks.
- While whisking add the sugar, slowly until dissolved.
- Add rum extract, heavy cream, milk and salt. Continue to whisk.
- Strain mixture and transfer to large bowl, to strain out air bubbles.
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FOR THE CARAMEL:
- Put sugar and water into small sauce pan. Boil and reduce until a nice amber color or to 'hard crack' stage on your candy thermometer.
- ** Not to worry. After the flan is baked, cooled and inverted onto plate, the caramel is no longer hard, but just right.**.
- ASSEMBLY AND BAKING.
- Into buttered ramekins, pour 2 Tbsp of the hot caramel mixture and rotate to coat the bottom.
- Place 2-3 pear slices on top of caramel.
- Fill each ramekin with the flan mixture, SLOWLY to avoid air bubbles, until 2/3 full.
- Place filled ramekins into shallow baking pan and then fill pan with boiling water.
- **the water bath will allow flan to cook evenly**.
- Bake for 40 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow flans to cool in original water bath.
- Once cooled, flans can be removed from water, covered and refrigerated overnight if needed.
- Before serving, place ramekins in a shallow pan of warm water to loosen the custard.
- Run a knife around the inside edge of ramekin, to further loosen. Place a plate on top of ramekin and flip onto plate to serve.
- VOILA! You have your Caramel and Pear Flan.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
L. Duch
Forrest City, Arkansas
I'm 41y/o wife and mother of 2. I've been a nurse for 20 years. We live in a small town in Arkansas. My passion is cooking. I love to cook anything and everything. Luckily my family is adventerous in their eating habits, so I have lots of fun trying new things out on them. I also like camping, traveling, gardening,water sports and collecting recipes. I like getting to know other people from other parts of the world. We have 5 pets, 2 dogs and 3 ferrets. My worst pet peeve is when people stick their nose up at a dish before trying it, because they know a certain ingredient is in it. I know everyone has different tastes, but picky eaters just don't know what they are missing when they turn down a dish they havent even tried.