Flan

Flan - Mexican Recipes

This flan recipe is an easy dessert to prepare, as easy as opening some cans and cracking some eggs! I love to prepare this dessert to serve after a delicious family meal or prepare it in one of my Cooking Classes.

It is made using whole eggs along with condensed and evaporated milk and covered with a simple light sugar syrup. It can also be made using cream cheese or coconut milk for a different taste and texture.

This recipe is not the traditional way of making a Mexican Flan, prepared as a custard where milk, vanilla, and sugar are slowly simmered. But this is how we make it nowadays, and this flan recipe has been well-known in México for using canned milk for years.

Ingredients:

• 6 eggs

• 2 cans evaporated milk

• 2 cans condensed milk (lecherita, milchmädchen)

• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

• 1 cup sugar (for the caramel)

How to prepare:

Mix all the ingredients in the blender except for the sugar.

Place the cup of sugar in a bowl over medium heat and stir until you obtain a smooth, golden caramel.

Once this is done, we pour our caramel in our mold, pour our mixture of ingredients and put it in the preheated oven at 180 degrees for one hour in a bain-marie. 

You can decorate it with fruits of your choice or edible flowers. Enjoy!