Catalan Cream

Made this for desert for our Anniversary Steak dinner. Here a link to the steak post I did on it .

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/...dinner-updated-with-more-pictures#post_817287

here is  the Ingredients for the custard:

1 quart whole milk                       1 cinnamon stick

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract        3 strips of lemon zest

12 egg yolks                                1-1/4 cups sugar

3 tablespoons cornstarch            2 tablespoons honey 

seperated the egg white and yolks



egg yolks ,sugar , cornstarch and honey



milk ,cinnamon vanilla and lemon zest simmer for 10 minutes. then slowly pour this into the egg yolks mixture.



then bring the mixture to a boil then simmer for 3 minutes.



put it in a (small) cast iron skillet . then put in frig for 3 + hours



heat up a 2nd skillet on the hot coals



this is what it looks like after 3 hours in the frig.



put sugar on top. ( next time will add a lot more sugar)



here the fun part. have a glove that won't melt when you grab the pan out the the hot coals.

don't use the glove I have on . it will start to melt. smoke was coming from the pan and the glove.



this is what happen when heat hits the sugar. lot of smoke.



like I said.  LOTS OF SMOKE !!!!.



only leave it on for a few seconds, don't want to burn the sugar. just long enough to caramelize



need to put more surgar on top next time.

thanks for looking.