Cream Brulee With Strawberries

Name: Cream Brulee With Strawberries
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 6 serving(s)
Ingredients: 2 cups heavy cream; 1/2 inch vanilla beans or 1 tablespoon vanilla; 2 eggs; 2 egg yolks; 4 tablespoons white sugar; 1/2 cup light brown sugar; 3 cups strawberries, washed and hulled (optional)

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"Unbelievably delicious, with or without strawberries!"

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Ready In:: 10mins
Ingredients:: 7
Serves:: 6

ingredients

2 cups heavy cream
¹⁄₂ inch vanilla beans or 1 tablespoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
4 tablespoons white sugar
¹⁄₂ cup light brown sugar
3 cups strawberries, washed and hulled (optional)

directions

Heat cream with vanilla bean or vanilla in heavy saucepan over low heat. Beat eggs and yolks adding white sugar gradually; beat until light and thick. SLOWLY pour CREAM into egg mixture, mixing well.
Return mixture to heavy sauce pan and cook on low heat, stirring with wooden spoon until mixture coats back of spoon. Do not boil. Remove vanilla bean.
Pour into shallow 1 ½ quart casserole or individual porcelain ramekins (ovenproof), and cool to room temperature. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
At serving time, sieve brown sugar over top, covering custard completely (to about 1/4-inch thickness). Place casserole in pan of crushed ice and place under hot broiler until sugar melts and caramelizes. This may take less than a minute, so watch constantly.
Chill about 5 minutes in refrigerator to harden sugar crust. To serve, crack crust with back of serving spoon and spoon over bowls of chilled strawberries.
POACHED PEARS WITH CRÈME BRULEE VARIATION: 6 medium winter pears, 1 1/3 cups sugar, 1/4 cup lemon juice.
Pare pears, leaving stems on. In 5-quart saucepan, mix 2 cups of water with sugar and lemon juice. Bring to boil, stirring to dissolve sugar.
Place pears on their side in syrup. Simmer, covered, 15 minutes. Turn pears, simmer, uncovered for 15 minutes longer. Refrigerate overnight in syrup.
To serve, place pears in individual serving dishes. At table, spoon Crème Brulee over top of pears.
The Total Woman Cookbook Marabel Morgan.

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I guess I didn’t have the heat down low enough and it started to curdle, I hand whisked it and then put it back in my mixer and beat it till it was almost smooth. It set up nicely in the fridge overnight and I managed to blowtorch the sugar the next day. It was very tasty will do it in a double boiler next time.

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