Cream Brulee

Cream Brulee Recipe

Serves 8

Preperation Time 15 mins

Cooking Time 40 mins

Ingredients

  • 1L (4 cups) Pure (thin) cream
  • 1 Cup milk [250ml]
  • 3 Vanilla beans , split, seeds scraped
  • 18 Large egg yolks
  • 260g Caster sugar, plus ½ cup extra for brulee topping

    • Directions

  • Preheat the oven to 140°C.
  • Place cream, milk, vanilla pods and seeds in a heavy-based sauce pan over medium heat and bring to just below boiling point. Remove from the heat.
  • Mix egg yolks and sugar in a separate bowl.
  • Slowly add the cream mixture to the egg and sugar mixture, folding in gradually.
  • Strain though a fine sieve into a clean pouring bowl. Pour custard into 8 x 200ml oven-proof brulee dishes.
  • Place brulee dishes in a extra large roasting pan, pouring enough warm water into the pan that it reaches half way up the brulee's side. Bake for 40 mins.
  • Carefully remove the brulee's from the water bath and chill for 3 hours.
  • To serve , sprinkle extra sugar over the tops of the brulee's and caramelise with a kitchen blowtorch. You should have a thin crisp layer on top of you brulee's that can be cracked with back of a spoon.

    • Tips: The brulee's should be soft and wobble like jelly.