French Crème Brûlée Recipe
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Loading... - Karl Huber
- 23 Feb 2023
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This easy recipe is for a delicious French crème brûlée dessert. Crème brûlée is a traditional French dessert consisting of a delicious rich vanilla flavoured custard with a brittle caramelized sugar topping.
There appears to be some discussion as to the origins of crème brûlée, with the French, British, and Spanish all claiming some role in its invention.
But let’s face it, it is so good, like a French Chocolate Mousse, it has to be French! And why else would it be called ‘crème brûlée’, one wonders, meaning ‘burnt cream’ in French?
Having said that it is also known as Trinity Cream (Trinity College Cambridge) and Crema Catalana, so who really knows?
Although I have never actually knowingly tried a Trinity Cream I assume it is similar to this recipe.
But recently I was super surprised when I ordered a Crema Catalana in a good restaurant in Portugal. It looked the same as a Crème Brûlée, but the cream was actually iced, like ice cream. It was very tasty, but I was just not expecting it to be like that.
So you may find this dessert with several varieties, with flavoured creme brulee, like passion fruit, lemon or caramel for example – and they are all good. But this original recipe, with a vanilla flavoured custard, is just the true classic. Read More…
