Flan

Name: Flan
Yield: Serves eight
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 1 vanilla pod (bean) or 10 ml/2 tsp vanilla essence (extract); 1 vanilla pod (bean) or 10 ml/2 tsp vanilla essence (extract); 250 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup whipping cream; 400 ml/14 fl oz/1⅔ cups milk; 2 egg yolks; 5 large (US extra large) eggs; 1 vanilla pod (bean) or 10 ml/2 tsp vanilla essence (extract); 250 g/9 oz/1¼ cups granulated sugar

Preparation info

Serves
eight

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Recipes from My Spanish Grandmother

By Pepita Aris

Published 2013

About

These little baked caramel custards, made in bucket-shaped moulds, are the best-known and most popular of all Spanish desserts. If you don’t own small moulds, you can make one large flan instead but it will need to be cooked for a little longer.

Ingredients

250 g/9 oz/1¼ cups granulated sugar
1

Europe
Spain
Dessert
Gluten-free
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Select your moulds - eight metal dariole moulds, about 120 ml/4 fl oz/½ cup each, or a

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