Crème brûlée

Name: Crème brûlée
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: french
Ingredients: 125 ml whole milk; 125 ml cream; 150 gram sugar; 5 egg yolks; 1/2 vanilla pod; Cane sugar

The best part of a crème brûlée is the sugar on top. Smooth and creamy custard with a crispy layer, absolute divine!

50 minutes

4 persons

Desserts

Recipe crème brûlée

Made by Véronique

Published at 2015-06-20, this recipe is for 4 persons and takes 50 minutes.

Founder of Ohmydish (since 2014), she prefers to spend all day in the kitchen. Once working in the hospitality industry as an independent chef, she loves helping you gain confidence in the kitchen. With her easy-to-follow recipes, handy tips, and cooking knowledge, you'll make the most delicious dishes yourself! The recipes are accessible to everyone, from beginners to advanced home cooks.

Updated at: 2024-07-31

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Preparation time

10 minutes

Time cooking

40 minutes

Total time

50 minutes

Preparing the crème brûlée – 10 minutes

Cut the vanilla pod in half and remove the marrow. Heat the milk, cream, vanilla pod and marrow in the small saucepan on medium-low heat. Meanwhile, mix the egg yolks and sugar until very fluffy and white.

The mixing will take about 4 to 5 minutes. Remove the vanilla pod from the warm milk and cream, pour it slowly into the beaten egg yolks. Not at all once, just a little at a time while it's mixing. If you add the hot milk too fast, the egg yolks will set and will create lumps.

Pre-heat the oven to 140 degrees celsius or 285 degrees fahrenheit. Divide the mixture over the ramekins. Place the ramekins in the oven dish and fill it with hot water to create a bain-marie bath.

The water should be about 1 to 2 cm under the edge of the ramekins.

Finishing the crème brûlée – 40 minutes + waiting time

Place the oven dish with the water and ramekins carefully in the middle of a pre-heated oven. Cook them for about 40 minutes. They are ready when they're kind of wobble just like a jelly.

Remove from the water and set in the fridge for at least 2 hours, or until completely cooled off. Add cane sugar on top of the custard and burn it carefully until the sugar caramelizes.

tip: don't add sugar to all of the ramekins at once. The sugar will get wet by absorbing the custard, so when you light in on fire, it will turn black in a few seconds instead.