Four Ingredient Crème Brûlée

Four Ingredients that’s all you need to make this restaurant quality Valentine  day Creme’ Brulee dessert.

Four  simple ingredients, eggs, cream, sugar and vanilla make this elegant custard rich dessert. What is creme brulee???

Creme brulee is a dessert consisting of a rich custard base and topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.

You can brown the sugar in your oven broiler or use a kitchen torch, another way is to heat up a medal spoon and touch the sugared tops a few times, with the back of the spoon.

What ever method you use to caramelize the sugar topping, it is best that the custards are chilled  before hitting the tops with heat. To add another depth of flavor,

I caramelized some sliced strawberries by cooking them in 2 tablespoons of sugar for 10 minutes, and topped the Creme brulee with them. you don’t have to.

This dessert is easy, quick and delicious, it’s a special dessert but it’s so easy you’ll want to make it often.

Using the right size ramekins is important to ensure even cooking,

I use 6 oz. ramekins and be sure the baking pan is deep enough for the water to bath the ramekins 3/4 of the way up.

I don’t know about you, but for me I like simple, easy desserts that taste delicious, come together in less than a hour,but has your friends thinking it took hours, this is one of those desserts. It’s  simple and so delicious you’ll want to make it often.

If you make this Creme Brulee dessert, please leave me a comment and tag me on Instagram.

Ingredients

4 egg yolks

2 cups heavy cream

1 vanilla bean or 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1 cup sugar divided reserve  1/2  cup  for topping

Instruction

Heat oven to 350 degrees

Heat cream and  vanilla bean  until hot but not boiling

Remove vanilla bean if using vanilla extract add it now

Beat egg yolks and  1/2 cup sugar

Slowly pour heated cream into egg and sugar mixture

Whisk until well blended

Pour mixture into 4  6- ounce ramekins  and place in a baking dish

Fill baking pan 3/4 of the way with boiling water

Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until centers are set…chill

Before serving sprinkle each custard with  remaining sugar broil until sugar is hardened and caramelized…..Enjoy!!!!!