Description
I have made creme brulee many times, and have been perfecting it over time.
Ingredients
- 3 egg yolks
- ΒΌ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Move a rack to the bottom of the oven.
- Whisk the egg yolks
- sugar
- and vanilla together in a stainless steel bowl until smooth. Bring the cream just to a simmer in a saucepan over medium-low heat; pour into the egg yolk mixture
- whisking continually until combined.
- Bring a couple of inches of water to a simmer in an oven-safe saucepan over medium low heat; set the bowl with the cream mixture over the saucepan to form a double boiler.
- Place the entire double boiler into the preheated oven; bake until the mixture sets
- about 30 minutes.
- Chill in refrigerator 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven’s broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
- Combine the brown sugar with 2 tablespoons of white sugar in a bowl; sprinkle evenly over the cold creme.
- Heat under the preheated broiler until the sugar melts and browns
- 2 to 3 minutes; return immediately to the refrigerator and chill until the sugar is set
- about 15 minutes.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Total Time: 3 hrs 5 mins
Servings: 4