Flan
- 12 cup sugar
- 12 cup water
- 16 ounces half-and-half
- 16 ounces heavy cream
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 slices orange peel
- 12 jumbo egg yolks
- 14 cup port wine
- Butter a bundt cake mold and place in freezer.
- For Sugar Syrup: Place sugar in a medium sized skillet and heat at low, allowing sugar to caramelize.
- Do not mix, occasionally shake skillet.
- Boil Water.
- When sugar is caramelized, add boiling water, one spoon at a time and mix.
- Set aside 2 tablespoons of the sugar and pour the rest into the bundt cake mold.
- Place in freezer.
- Preheat oven to 325.
- Add half and half, heavy cream, orange peel and sugar to a large saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium low heat.
- Add in left over caramelized sugar.
- In a small bowl, beat egg yolks until frothy.
- Once cream is hot, add 1 cup of the cream to the egss and mix.
- Then pour back into sacepan and stir for one minute in order to heat up.
- Remove from heat and ass Port Wine.
- Stir then strain the custard cream through a fine sieve.
- Optional: Add some port wine to the mold.
- Then pour custard cream into the mold.
- Place mold into a backing pan and fill the baking pan with warm water, until covering half of the mold.
- lace in oven and bake for about an hour and a half, or until a tooth pick can be inserted into the center and pulled out clean.
- Cool for an hour.
- Refridgerate for about 4 to 5 hours or until firm.
- To invert flan, quickly dip mold into hot water and turn the mold onto dessert plate with a turned up rim.
- Cut into slim wedges and serve.
sugar, water, heavy cream, sugar, orange peel, egg yolks, port wine
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/flan-345153 (may not work)