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Surprisingly simple and very good. A delicious holiday dessert.
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Ingredients
- 1 Sheet of Puff pastry
- 1 l. of Milk
- 3 Eggs
- 160 g. of Sugar
- 100 g. of Maizena (or corn starch)
- 2 small pack of Vanilla Sugar (sucre vanille)
- 3 Tsp of Vanilla extract
- 1 Vanilla bean (optional)
Method
- Pre-heat the oven at 350F
- Scrub a pie plate with butter, then sprinkle flour.
- Lay the puff pastry in the pie plate, then using a fork, pick the pastry.
- Place the plate into the fridge
- In a large bowl, place the corn starch, the 3 eggs, the vanilla extract and 125 ml of milk and mix (manual or electric) well
- Split the vanilla bean and place it with the rest of the milk, the vanilla sugar, the sugar in a pan
- Bring these to a boil
- Once the milk is boling pour over the egg mixture while mixing
- Place back on the stove at low heat for a few minutes to get the preparation to thicken a tad, a couple of minutes at most
- Take the pie plate out of the fridge and pour the preparation into the plate. Make sure to remove the vanilla bean.
- Place the pie plate into the oven for about 40 minutes at 350 F
- Check the Flan a few minutes before the time is up, if necessary place an aluminium foil on top of it for the last few minutes.
- Take out of the oven and let it cool completly before serving
- Keep in in the fridge after that
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| Traditional | |
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| Serve | 8 |
| Preparation Time | 5 mn |
| Cooking Time | 40 mn |
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| Authors | Pascal Crausaz |
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