Vanilla Creme Brulee

Ingredients

Add eggs and 1/4 cup sugar to a mixing bowl, whisk until smooth. Don’t over whisk.
Add cream and 1/4 cup sugar and vanilla to a pot on the stove. Use any of the following to add extra flavor
- Squeeze oranges
- Splash of Bailey’s
- Green tea
Bring to a boil and remove from heat
While whisking slowly pour the hot cream into the egg mixture. Again, don’t over whisk. Don’t scramble eggs.
Strain custard into a pitcher to pour
- At this step, you could switch it up and instead of creme brulee, make ice cream by putting this mixture in an ice cream machine
Prepare a oven proof tray with 5 ramekins in it. Fill the ramekins 3/4 full
Add water to your oven tray to create a water bath for your ramekins, water should go halfway up the sides
Bake in a 350F oven for 30ish minutes give or take
Brulees are done when the tops have a slight browning and they jiggle, but don’t wobble
Allow to cool fully
Sprinkle sugar over the tops and use a torch to caramelize the sugar
Allow to harden before eating

Source: University of Waterloo Food Services