Silky Smooth Creme Caramel Recipe

When I was growing up, my mom used to make creme caramel a.k,a caramel custard pudding. This is one of my cherished memories because this is one of the most delicious dessert yet one of the simplest. The silky-smooth-melt in your mouth texture is just divine, 

   There are different ways of making creme caramel. For this recipe I used condensed milk.
                             

Ingredients

For the Caramel

3/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup water

For the Custard

1 can condensed milk

3 eggs

325 ml milk

1 tsp vanilla essence

2 pinches of salt

Method

Butter the ramekins and keep aside

Making the caramel will take only about 5 -6 minutes.In a heavy bottom pan, melt the sugar and butter on medium high heat. You can brush the sides of the pan  as it prevents the sugar from crystallizing. 

When you see the color changing to orange-brown on the side of the pan, give the pan a swirl. In seconds, you will see the entire sugar syrup turn orange-brown.

 Quickly and 'CAREFULLY' pour the caramel syrup into the ramekins,

Now, in a blender mix the condensed milk, milk, eggs and vanilla essence for not more than a minute,

Pour the custard through a strainer into the ramekins

Carefully cover each ramekin with aluminium foil*. This is a very important step that you should not avoid. Otherwise you will end up having tough and grainy creme caramels instead of soft- smooth -melt in your mouth creme caramels.

You can either steam this for 20 minutes or bake this for 25 minutes at 325 degrees on a water bath. I prefer the steaming method because that's how my mom makes caramel pudding.

If you don't cover the ramekins with an aluminium foil properly you will end up getting  a creme caramel on the right side in the picture below. We want the left hand side one! 

Cool this in the fridge for 2 hours. To unmould, run the knife around of each ramekins and invert onto the serving plate, gently shaking our creme caramels to release from the bottom of the ramekins. You can tap on the bottom of the ramekins. I did!

And this happend!

And it kept on happening

Yumm,..Silky smooth..

It never fails! Try it!

  

                                                           HAPpY COOKiNG!