Caramel Flan

This is a French flan. In France we use sucre vanillé and it is available on Amazon.

Unbalanced

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Step 1

oven to 180 C (355 F)

Step 2

Make caramel: cook water and sugar together until caramel is a deep golden brown but be careful not to burn. Pour caramel into flan dish, 8" cake pan or any straight sided 8" to 8"1/2 oven proof round dish and tilt dish so caramel coats bottom and sides.

Step 3

Bring milk to a boil.

Step 4

Beat eggs, sugar and vanilla together then pour hot milk on top while stirring briskly, add milk a little bit at a time at first as if you added it all at once the eggs might curdle. Transfer this mixture into coated flan dish.

Step 5

Cook in Bain Marie for 30mns. Test center of flan with thin knife blade (or toothpick) to make sure it’s done.

Step 6

Cool 15/20 mns and invert on serving platter: place serving dish on top of cake pan, hold tightly together and quickly flip!

Step 7

Right before serving you may garnish with dollops of whipped cream in which you can nest a few berries.