Name: Crème à la cassonade
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 75 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 7 egg yolks; 150 gm caster sugar, plus extra for scattering; 3 vanilla beans, split and seeds scraped; 700 ml thickened cream; 250 ml milk (1 cup)

Crème à la cassonade

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for crème à la cassonade from Bistro Dom in Adelaide.

Serves 8

Prep

15M

Cook

Total

1H 15M

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“As shameless Francophiles, we love everything about Adelaide’s Bistro Dom, but it’s the crème à la cassonade that really has us swooning. Would you please ask chef Andrew Davies to share his recipe?”

Geri and Richard Marsh, via email

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Ingredients

7 egg yolks

150 gm caster sugar, plus extra for scattering

3 vanilla beans, split and seeds scraped

700 ml thickened cream

250 ml milk (1 cup)

Method

Main

1.Whisk yolks and sugar in a bowl until smooth, add vanilla bean and seeds and whisk to combine. Add cream and milk, whisk to combine, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until flavours develop (1-2 hours).

2.Preheat oven to 110C. Strain mixture through a fine sieve (discard solids), then pour into eight 250ml ovenproof ramekins, place on oven trays and bake, swapping trays halfway through cooking, until just set with a slight wobble in centre (45-55 minutes). Cool slightly, then refrigerate until set (2-3 hours).

3.Scatter caster sugar evenly over custards, then caramelise with a blowtorch or under a hot grill (1-2 minutes), and serve.