Maple Tea Crème Brûlée
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Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons tea leaves (Earl Grey or other tea)
- 3/8 cup water
- 5/8 cup fresh cream
- 5/8 cup milk
- 1/4 cup maple syrup (preferably golden syrup for its delicate taste)
- 4 egg yolks
- Maple sugar
- Orange slices, blueberries, raspberries, and mint leaves for garnish
Method
- Preheat oven to 160 °C (300 °F).
- Pour the water, the tea leaves into the milk, cream and maple syrup.
- Heat over high heat and brew a strong tea.
- Straining the tea leaves, pour the tea into a different pan, add fresh cream, milk, and maple syrup. Heat over low flame until warm to the touch (30-40 °C or 86-104 °F).
- Turn off heat. Pour in beaten egg yolk and mix until the mixture thickens. Pour into ramekins.
- Place ramekins in an ovenproof dish, fill one-third with hot water and bake at 140°C (275°F) for 35 minutes.
- When done, sprinkle maple sugar on top, place ramekins in a preheated over toaster, and brown topping to desired brownness.
- Garnish with orange slices, blueberries, raspberries, and mint leaves, as desired.
The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers is not in any way responsible for the identification or presence of allergens in recipes or for the classification of any recipe as vegetarian or vegan.
