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How To Make Crème Brulée

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How To Make Crème Brulée
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Crème Brulée Recipe. This traditional French dessert is creamy on the inside and crunchy on top - an exquisite and irresistible combination. Taste our Crème Brulée recipe. Enlarge Crème Brulée Recipe. This traditional French dessert is creamy on the inside and crunchy on top - an exquisite and irresistible combination. Taste our Crème Brulée recipe.
Serves:
6
Preparation Time:
30 minutes
Cooking Time:
30 minutes
Total Time:
1 hour
Oven Temperature:
190° c  -  370° f

Step 1: You will need….

  • 500 ml double cream
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 120 g caster sugar
  • 6 tsp caster sugar
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 1 chopping board
  • 1 saucepan
  • 1 bowl
  • 1 whisk
  • 1 sieve
  • 1 jug
  • 6 ramekins
  • 1 roasting tin
  • 1 blow torch
  • 1 spatula
  • 1 knife

Step 2: Prepare the vanilla pod

Slice down the middle of the pod and split it open. Scrape out the pulp onto the knife point and put it into the saucepan. Add the pod and pour in the cream.

Step 3: Heat the cream

Place the pan of cream over a medium heat and allow to warm to just under boiling point.

Step 4: Preheat the oven

Set the oven to 140ºC (275ºF/ gas mark 1).

Step 5: Mix eggs and cream

Break the eggs into a large bowl, add the sugar and whisk well until it turns pale in colour. Gradually pour in the warm cream, whisking continually. Once combined, set aside.

Step 6: Strain and transfer to ramekins

Strain the mixture through the sieve into the jug. Place the six ramekins into the roasting tin and fill each one with the cream mixture. Pour enough boiling water into the tray to reach half way up the ramekins. This is known as a bain marie.

Step 7: Bake

Place into the preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes.

Step 8: Remove and cool

Once baked remove the crème brulees from the oven and, taking great care as the ramekins will be very hot, take them out of the bain marie. Allow them to cool to room temperature.

Step 9: Caramelize

Sprinkle a teaspoon of sugar over each crème brulee. With the blow torch quickly caramelize the top, for roughly 8-10 seconds. Don't over heat or the sugar will go black. When cooled the caramelized topping will harden.

Step 10: Serve

Place on a serving plate and serve at room temperature.
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Tips & Comments
  1. iamsoaringeagle

    If you don't have ramekins, you can use short drinking glasses. Also, you can brown the top in the oven. Just watch it like a hawk because it can go from ready to burned in an eyeblink.

  2. marikane

    If I don't have a torch, can I put it in the oven on broil?

  3. jathomson

    That's not a creme brulee - that's a traditional Scottish burnt cream.

  4. BJAN708@aol.com

    Absolutely lovely I dissoved some coffee granules and added to cream - heavenly

  5. Anonymous

    That creme brulee is over done on top and under cooked inside. Not a good example at all. The best way to do the topping is to use icing sugar, do not dump it on with a spoon like they show you hear sprinkle through a shaker or through a fine mesh collinder a very very thin layer. Caramalize this layer, leave it a few moments then repeat this process. You can achieve a lovely thick layer by building it up without making it all black, bitter and disgusting like they do in this video. Who are you people your creme brulee looks crap!??

  6. Anonymous

    i'm a 1st yr apprent. chef and at work we add rubarb that has been baked with red wine sugar and bit of water!! add a bit of rubarb at the bottom b4 fillin it with brulee mix...BEST SELLER!!(make sur u add enough sugar with the rubarb tho otherwise it will taste sour!!!)

  7. 1slandfashiongir1

    can we just add pre carmalized sugar to the top, i think that would work just fine. ps- be looking back from me, i'll try it when i can and tell you how it went with pre carmalized sugar Taryn

  8. Anonymous

    SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD I THINK ITS WORTH A TRY BETTER THAN THE 2 OTHER RECIPES I'VE FOUND USING VANILLA ESSENCE ONLY SOUNDS MORE AUTHENTIC SEEING AS ITS SUPPOSED TO BE FRENCH JACK

  9. Anonymous

    It sounds Horrible n reallly complucatecd

  10. Elaneban

    Ramekins are so expensive so are vanilla pods, but i wana try this