Crème Brulé

Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 pinches salt
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 ina small sauce pan, combine1/4 cup sugar with 2 tblsp water. place over medium high heat; bring to a simmer and cook stirring often until sugar dissolves.
• 2 partly cover pan and continue cooking until sugar turn medium amber. immediately remove pan from heat and let cool slightly.
• 3 add 3 tablespoons of water and return to medium low heat to melt the caramel.
• 4 in a bowl whisk the cornstarch with the remaining sugar, the salt, the eggs and the milk. pour into a medium saucepan, place over medium heat and cook stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until the cream thickens.add vanilla. when pudding barely simmers, remove the pan from heat.
• 5 stir the caramel into the pudding. if lumps form, use your whisk.
• 6 spoon into dessert dishes or ramekins.
• 7 cover and refrigerate until cold. i placed mine a cake dish and covered with foil making sure the pudding did not touch the cover.
• 8 refrigerate at least 3 hours or overnight.
• 9 just prior to serving, sprinkle with fine sugar and caramelize with a blowtorch.