This dessert is a simple variation of Crème Brulee - adding a touch of 'special' to comfort food, tasty, easy to make and pretty to look at.
Baked Custard
- 2 cups milk
- 3 eggs (if you want a smoother texture use 6 egg yolks instead of the 3 whole eggs - but it is the egg whites that yield the protein to balance this dessert for diabetics)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Put all ingredients into blender and process for 1 minute.
- Pour into buttered ramekins.
- Place ramekins into pan of water -- enough water to measure half of ramekin depth.
- Bake in 325 degree oven until a knife inserted into the custard comes out clean (for small ramekins about an 1 1/4 hours)
- Cool custard, top with a Lace Wafer -- chill until serving time.
Lace Wafers
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white corn syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 teaspoons whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons sweet rice flour
- 1 tablespoon brown rice flour
- pinch of xanthan gum
- Put butter, sugar, corn syrup into a small saucepan and bring to a rolling boil.
- Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients stirring until completely smooth - it will be a rather thin batter.
- Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a teaspoon, drop mixture on paper leaving ample room between mounds. These wafers can be made any size, but to fit my ramekins I needed a 2 1/4" wafer which was the baked result of 1/2 tsp of mixture.
- Bake for 7 minutes in a 350 degree oven. The 'blob' of mixture will spread, bubble and turn golden. Remove from oven and let sit until firm enough to handle. Peel gently from parchment paper.
Note : This is a great make ahead kind of dessert - Custard will keep for about 4 days in the fridge. The wafer recipe makes a lot of wafers but they can be frozen for future use as embellishments on desserts -- freeze between layers of parchment paper to ensure there is no sticking together.
Those lacey wafers are so pretty!
ReplyDeleteMmmm - Creme Brulee is one of my favourite food groups!!! This looks so lovely.
ReplyDeleteI have every ingredient but xanthan gum. Is it an absolutely necessary for the wafers?
ReplyDeleteDena, I put in a pinch just in case , but I don't think leaving it out will make much of a difference, so is it absolutely necessary? no!
DeleteHow many ramekins and what size are needed?
ReplyDeleteIt really depends on the size of ramekins you are using .. mine are fairly small 2 1/2" across and I filled 8 of them.
DeleteGood morning, ladies, and God bless you. I've nominated you all for the Very Inspiring Blogger award and I've shared your site with all my friends. You can read about this award on my blog. http://timetravelingincostume.blogspot.com/2013/05/very-inspiring-blogger-award_4.html
ReplyDeleteVal
Thank you, Val !
DeleteWhile we do not participate in the kind of interacting blogging the award requires we do very much appreciate you thinking so kindly of us !
Is white rice flour the same as sweet rice flour?
ReplyDelete