Creme Brulee W/ Raspberry-Brown Sugar Crust
- 3 cups whipping cream
- 34 cup white sugar
- 6 large egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 4 teaspoons seedless raspberry jam (other flavors would work too)
- 16 teaspoons brown sugar
- 1 pint fresh raspberry
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Put your cream in a saucepan on Medium High and bring it to a simmer.
- You're looking for the little bubbles to form on the outside of the pan just before the cream starts to boil.
- This will take a few minutes.
- While you are waiting, you can work on your egg mixture.
- Put egg yolks and white sugar in a large bowl.
- With an electric mixer, blend for 2 to 3 minutes until well mixed and smooth.
- Add vanilla and the salt.
- Mix until combined.
- Turn cream off.
- Do not let it boil or boil over.
- Mix the hot cream into the eggs but dont just pour it all in at once or the eggs will scramble.
- Add just a couple of tablespoons of the hot cream to the egg mixture.
- With the mixer running on low, add a little more.
- After you've done this three times, you can start to add your cream in a steady slow stream.
- Keep the mixer running until you have all of the cream mixed inches.
- Now take your 9 X 13 pan and put all of your ramekins in it.
- Fill the pan with enough water to come halfway up the sides of the containers.
- NO MORE than that.
- Put a few raspberries in the bottom of each ramekin.
- Then carefully pour the cream mixture over the raspberries, up to about one-third of an inch from the top of the container--maybe even one-half of an inch, depending on how steady your hands are...because you now have to transfer this to the oven.
- Transfer the baking pan and its contents carefully into the oven.
- Just try not to get water into the custard-filled containers.
- That would be bad.
- Bake the custards for one hour.
- They will be light brown on top and "set."
- Carefully remove the whole pan from the oven.
- Put them on a cookie sheet or tray and put them in your refrigerator to cool.
- You need to leave them in there at least 3 hours to firm up.
- You can even leave them overnight.
- If you leave them overnight, cover them with plastic wrap after they have cooled.
- When you want to serve.
- Preheat your broiler.
- Smear a scant half teaspoonful of raspberry jelly across the top of the baked custard.
- This is pretty sweet so just a smear is enough.
- Then sprinkle 2 teaspoons of brown sugar on top of each, trying to cover the jelly.
- If it doesn't cover completely, that's okay.
- Put all of the containers on a cookie sheet and place it under the broiler at least 6 to 8 inches below the heat source.
- Broil for up to 2 minutes; you're watching for the brown sugar to completely melt.
- If there is jelly sticking through, it will glisten.
- When the sugar is melted, it will make a crust and you're ready to go.
- Let them cool for just a minute and serve.
whipping cream, white sugar, egg yolks, vanilla, salt, seedless raspberry, brown sugar, fresh raspberry
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/cr-me-br-l-e-w-raspberry-brown-sugar-crust-137245 (may not work)