country apple creme brulee

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chattanooga, TN
Updated on Jul 30, 2014

This is a country creamy mix of a creme brulee custard with homemade apple pie filling. It's Southern goodness in a cup

prep time 30 Min
cook time 35 Min
method Bake
yield 6

Ingredients

  • 4 medium apples, golden delicious, diced medium
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 tablespoon apple pie spice
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice, fresh
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 4 cups heavy cream
  • 6 large egg yolks
  • 1/4 cup white sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 ounces light brown sugar

How To Make country apple creme brulee

  • Step 1
    To make the apple filling: cut up apples and mix the brown sugar, apple pie spice, nutmeg and cinnamon all together. Take and put in bowl and set aside
  • Step 2
    To make the custard base, take the egg yolks and white sugar and whip together till pale yellow, once mixed set aside in fridge, heat up milk and vanilla to simmering point,
  • Step 3
    Take heated cream and slowly add to the egg mixture by tempering, tempering means real slow, by whisking if not you will get a fancy scrambled egg,
  • Step 4
    Now take your apple filling and put into six ramekins, fill half way, now take your ramekins and put them in an oven safe pan, fill your pan up half way up the ramekin, making a water bath, now take your cream mixture and fill the ramekins up. Don't overflow.
  • Step 5
    Take your water bath dish and bake in a 300 degree oven for 35 min, or until it's set in the middle or a little jiggly, once done cool for an hr
  • Step 6
    Now that's it cooled, sprinkle light brown sugar on each ramekin, Carmalize by setting under broiler until sugar carmalizes or torch it with a creme brulee torch for 45 sec or so

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Culture: French
Ingredient: Fruit
Method: Bake

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