Dale Prentice

Cream Caramel

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Champions of Sous Vide: A Collection of Favorite Recipes from Two Dozen Sous Vide All-Stars
Champions of Sous Vide

By Mike La Charite and Jason Logsdon

Published 2019

  • About

Cream caramels are one of the great classic desserts, lightly set custard infused with golden caramel sauce. By cooking them in the sous vide your custard will set perfectly every time.

Ingredients

For the Caramel Sauce

  • ¼ cup castor sugar
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1

Method

For the Caramel Sauce

In a small pot, a copper one if you are lucky enough to have one, heat the sugar and water over a medium heat stirring gently until the sugar dissolves. Once the sugar has dissolved, stop stirring and allow the sugar to cook to a rich brown caramel. Remove the pot from the heat the minute you have a nice colour and carefully add the brandy, it will splutter a bit