Lavender vanilla crème brûlée
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: French
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A lavender twist on a classic French crème brûlée.
Ingredients
  • 2 cups half and half (or cream)
  • 1 teaspoon lavender bitters
  • a pinch of vanilla bean powder
  • a pinch of salt
  • 5 egg yolks
  • 0.5 cup sugar, divided
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 325F. Gently heat vanilla, half and half, and salt on the stove until just hot, stirring occasionally. Take off of heat, add in lavender bitters.
  2. In a separate bowl, beat together the egg yolks and half of the sugar until light yellow.
  3. Slowly whisk in about a fourth of the cream mixture into the custard, then stir the custard mixture into the rest of the cream.
  4. Pour into four ramekins or other oven safe baking dishes. Put them carefully into a larger baking dish and fill that up halfway with a water bath of boiling water.
  5. Bake for about 30 minutes - start checking at 25 minutes to see that the crème brûlée is just set in the middle.
  6. Refrigerate the crème brûlée until completely cooled. When ready to serve, top each serving with plenty of sugar and either place under the broiler briefly or use a blowtorch to caramelize that crackly top.
Recipe by Saffron and Honey at https://saffronandhoney.com/lavender-vanilla-creme-brulee/