Coffee Cup Crème Caramel

Every restaurant in Spain offers flan, the traditional custard baked in caramel-coated cups. As crème caramel, the same dessert is a standby in every bistro in France, in much the same way that every American restaurant serves cheesecake.

Too many crèmes caramel, however, are made indifferently, the custard pocked with holes and weeping watery liquid and without enough egg yolks to give it that sweet, gelid essence on the tongue. Which is why, when you find a crème caramel as perfec