Mexican Coffee Flan

Flan Café de Olla

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Claudia's Cocina: A Taste of Mexico from the Winner of MasterChef Season 6 on FOX

By Claudia Sandoval

Published 2016

  • About

Certain smells have always been nostalgic to me. Coffee reminds me so much of my abuelito Rogelio. When my mom would take us to visit our abuelos (grandparents) in Tijuana, we would get up early and pile into the car.

I can still smell the wafting scent of coffee as we crossed the threshold of their front door. Abuelito Rogelio sat in his usual corner right by the china cabinet and next to the back door. Newspaper in hand, he would peek over and give us the warmest smi