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Recipe: Clementine Crème Brûlée - Recette: Crème Brûlée à la Clémentine

Submitted by Nathalie on Friday, 30 January 20092 Comments

Crème Brûlée is a simple yet special dessert. It’s the kind of dessert that pleases everyone and is quite easy to make. But I like bringing my own touch to traditional recipes and as we’re still in our ‘clementine week’, I’ve baked those delightful Clementine Crèmes Brûlées.

Because I’ve used only the clementines’ zest, the texture of the crème brûlée was exactly the same as the ’standard’ one. But those have a little something more, a subtle clementine flavour which makes all the difference for me.

Clementine crème brûlée

Serves 3 - Ready in 3h

Ingredients

  • 250ml single cream
  • 35g golden caster sugar
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 2 clementines (zest only)
  • a few drops vanilla extract (not too much otherwise it will overcome the taste of the clementine)
  • sugar to caramelise (1 to 2 tsp per ramekin)

Preparation

  • Preheat the oven to 170°C.
  • Finely grate the zest of the 2 clementines.
  • Bring to a gentle boil the single cream with the zest. Stop immediately.
  • Beat the eggs with sugar and vanilla until light in colour.
  • Pour in the cream slowly while stirring.
  • Pour in the ramekins.
  • Place in a baking tray. Fill the baking tray with boiling water up to half the height of the ramekins.
  • Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
  • Let cool before placing the creams in the fridge for a couple of hours.
  • When ready to serve, sprinkle with sugar and caramelise with a torch.

Bon Appétit!

I’ve used cassonade to caramelise the creams as I had already packed the sugar and didn’t want to re-open all the boxes looking for it. But it didn’t work very well as you can see on the pictures.

Ingredients Creams ready to bake Let the creams cool before chilling them.

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Crèmes Brûlées à la Clémentine

Pour 3 - Prêt en 3h

Ingrédients

  • 250ml crème liquide
  • 35g sucre (blond de préférence)
  • 3 jaunes d’oeuf
  • 2 clémentines (zeste uniquement)
  • quelques gouttes d’extrait de vanille (pas trop pour ne pas masquer le goût de la clémentine)
  • sucre pour caraméliser (1 à 2 cc par ramequin)

Préparation

  • Préchauffez le four à 170°C.
  • Râpez finement le zeste des clémentines.
  • Portez doucement à ébullition la crème et le zeste râpé. Arrêtez le feu immédiatement.
  • Dans un saladier, battez les oeufs avec le sucre et la vanille, jusqu’à ce que le mélange ait blanchi.
  • Versez-y doucement la crème tout en mélangeant.
  • Répartissez la crème dans les ramequins.
  • Enfournez 25 à 30 minutes.
  • Laissez les crèmes refroidir avant de les placer au réfrigérateur quelques heures.
  • Au moment de servir, saupoudrez les crèmes de sucre et caramélisez-les à l’aide d’une torche.

Bon Appétit!

J’avais déjà emballer le sucre dans les cartons de déménagement, donc j’ai caramélisé les crèmes avec de la cassonade, mais cela n’a pas vraiment été une grande réussite comme vous pouvez le voir sur les photos…

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