First of all, to prepare our delicious creme brulèe, let’s take a saucepan, preferably non-stick, into which we will pour the milk and cream. We then take the vanilla pod and using a small knife we cut it lengthwise, then extract all the seeds and add both the seeds and the vanilla pod to the saucepan and bring everything to the boil.
We mix the egg yolks with the sugar very delicately, until we obtain a cream.
At this point the milk and cream will have come to the boil, remove the vanilla pod and pour everything delicately into the bowl with the egg yolks, transfer everything back into the saucepan and continue to cook until reaching a temperature of 80°C .
We take a baking tray with high edges and place 6 cocottes with a capacity of 150 ml each, then filter the mixture to eliminate any lumps and transfer it into the cocottes.
We pour plenty of boiling water into the pan, until it covers a third of the height of the cocottes and cook the cream in a pre-heated static oven at 150°C for around 60/70 minutes. The surface must be quite compact and golden.
When our creme brulèe are ready, let’s take them out of the oven and let them cool. Before serving the cocottes, we sprinkle the surface of the cream with a veil of granulated sugar and cook it with a torch until we obtain a golden, crunchy crust. We wait a few seconds. and then we serve our creme brulèe.
How to store creme brulee:
You can keep the cream for a maximum of one day before caramelizing the surface.
Useful tips:
If you don’t have a kitchen torch you can simply cook the sugar by placing the cocottes in the oven with the grill mode for a few minutes.