Crème au café caramelisée

Name: Crème au café caramelisée (Coffee Crème Caramel)
Prep time: 4 h 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 5 h 15 min
Yield: Serve 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 100 ml/3½ fl oz/scant ½ cup double cream; 250 ml/9 fl oz/1 cup milk; 3 eggs; 2 egg yolks; 40 g/1½ oz soft brown sugar, to caramelize (optional); 15 g/½ oz/¼ cup instant coffee granules; 175 g/6 oz/heaped ¾ cup caster sugar

Coffee Crème Caramel

Preparation info

Serve
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
6 hr

Appears in

French Brasserie Cookbook

By Daniel Galmiche

Published 2011

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Luxurious, smooth crème caramels – make them in the morning and they’ll be set and ready in time for dinner. It’s worth it just to see the look on your guests’ faces when you appear with a blowtorch to finish them off (the crème caramels, not the guests!). I’ve made them here with coffee, but you can substitute the coffee with many other flavourings and spices, such as vanilla, cinnamon, chocolate, lemongrass and star anise.