Recipe: Yummy Vanilla Creme Brulee

Vanilla Creme Brulee.

You can cook Vanilla Creme Brulee using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Vanilla Creme Brulee

1. Prepare of heavy or light cream, or half-and-half.
2. Prepare of vanilla bean, split lengthwise, or vanilla extract.
3. Prepare of salt.
4. Prepare of egg yolks.
5. Prepare of sugar, more for topping.

Vanilla Creme Brulee instructions

1. Heat oven to 325 degrees. In a saucepan, combine cream, vanilla bean and salt and cook over low heat just until hot. Let sit for a few minutes, then discard vanilla bean. (If using vanilla extract, add it now.).
2. In a bowl, beat yolks and sugar together until light..
3. Stir about a quarter of the cream into this mixture, then pour sugar-egg mixture into cream and stir..
4. Pour into four 6-ounce ramekins and place ramekins in a baking dish; fill dish with boiling water halfway up the sides of the dishes..
5. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until centers are barely set..
6. Cool completely. Refrigerate for several hours..
7. When ready to serve, top each custard with about a teaspoon of sugar in a thin layer. Place ramekins in a broiler 2 to 3 inches from heat sauce. Turn on broiler. Cook until sugar melts and browns or even blackens a bit, about 5 minutes. Serve within two hours..