Crème Brulee Recipe Video
Grab your blowtorch and learn how to make crème brûlée, a custardy, creamy, burnt-sugar celebration of dessert. We love this one, can you tell? Your chef is Marc Bauer, from the French Culinary Institute.
Ingredients
4 eggs
2 cups heavy cream
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
Whole vanilla bean (usually called Bourbon vanilla beans)
Small blowtorch (these can be found in hardware stores, or in gourmet kitchen stores)
Directions
or 4 servings:
1. Slice vanilla bean lengthwise, scrape seeds and resin from half the bean, place in large sauce pan with the other half of the vanilla bean.
2. Add heavy cream and scald (cook) on low heat until hot, but not boiling.
3. While cream is warming, whisk egg yolks and sugar thoroughly.
4. When cream is hot, ladle 1/2 cup into the yolks and sugar, mix.
5. Then pour all the cream into the mixture.
6. Mix, taking care not to whip air into the mixture.
7. Pour through a strainer into a clean bowl.
8. Remove bubbles (you have to see this).
9. Place a wet towel on the bottom of a large shallow baking dish.
10. Fill four ramekins almost to the top with the custard mixture.
11. Place three ramekins in the baking dish.
12. Add boiling water half way to the top of the baking dish, do not get water in ramekins.
13. Add last ramekin.
14. Bake 35 minutes at 325 degrees.
15. Test for doneness by tapping the side of a ramekin. Custard should jiggle a bit.
16. Chill ramekins for four hours.
17. Remove from refrigerator, fill top of each with brown sugar.
18. Place on a clean baking sheet.
19. Use blowtorch to burn the sugar on top of each ramekin.
20. Make sure no one makes off with your portion; this stuff is heaven on a spoon.
21. Assign someone else to clean up the kitchen.
1. Slice vanilla bean lengthwise, scrape seeds and resin from half the bean, place in large sauce pan with the other half of the vanilla bean.
2. Add heavy cream and scald (cook) on low heat until hot, but not boiling.
3. While cream is warming, whisk egg yolks and sugar thoroughly.
4. When cream is hot, ladle 1/2 cup into the yolks and sugar, mix.
5. Then pour all the cream into the mixture.
6. Mix, taking care not to whip air into the mixture.
7. Pour through a strainer into a clean bowl.
8. Remove bubbles (you have to see this).
9. Place a wet towel on the bottom of a large shallow baking dish.
10. Fill four ramekins almost to the top with the custard mixture.
11. Place three ramekins in the baking dish.
12. Add boiling water half way to the top of the baking dish, do not get water in ramekins.
13. Add last ramekin.
14. Bake 35 minutes at 325 degrees.
15. Test for doneness by tapping the side of a ramekin. Custard should jiggle a bit.
16. Chill ramekins for four hours.
17. Remove from refrigerator, fill top of each with brown sugar.
18. Place on a clean baking sheet.
19. Use blowtorch to burn the sugar on top of each ramekin.
20. Make sure no one makes off with your portion; this stuff is heaven on a spoon.
21. Assign someone else to clean up the kitchen.
Editors Review
If you have a sweet tooth and just can't live without eating desserts, then this is the right video for you. Crème Brulee is one of the richest desserts in the French Cuisine. Chef Marc Bauer shows us how to make this tasty dessert. This video definitely deserves a 5 star rating just for the presentation and the way the chef was explaining each step so nicely.Chef
