Description
This is my favorite recipe, learned from my mother. People love it and ask me for the recipe every time they try it, so here it is. I find it tastes better cold.
Ingredients
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk
- 6 eggs
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- ⅓ cup 2% milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup white sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Place sweetened condensed milk
- evaporated milk
- eggs
- cream cheese
- milk
- and vanilla extract in a blender; blend until smooth.
- Place sugar in an even layer in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook until the edges start to brown
- about 1 minute; drag sugar into the center with a spatula once the edges start to brown. Continue cooking
- stirring from time to time
- until caramel is an even golden brown
- 4 to 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile
- pour 1 inch boiling water into a large oven-safe pot or baking dish to make a water bath.
- Pour caramel into a 9-inch flan mold or baking pan; swirl so that caramel reaches 1 inch up the sides. Pour the condensed milk mixture on top. Set in the water bath.
- Set the flan and water bath in the preheated oven; bake until a damp table knife inserted into the center comes out clean
- 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let stand for 5 minutes.
- Chill flan in the refrigerator until firm
- 2 to 3 hours. Invert onto a serving plate so that caramel is on top.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 55 mins
Total Time: 3 hrs 15 mins
Servings: 8