Tuesdays With Dorie: Crème Brûlée

When Mari of Mevrouw Cupcake, one of my favourite food bloggers, chose crème brûlée for this week's Tuesdays With Dorie recipe, I was thrilled. Not just because it's one of my favourite desserts ever, but also because I actually made it a few weeks ago on a whim and decided not to post about it just in case.

Holding back took a lot of restraint, mainly because this is my new favourite crème brûlée recipe. And that's saying something, because I bought my first kitchen torch and ramekin set before I could even drive, and as such have tried my fair share of variations.

Crème Brûlée is, without a doubt, one of my favourite indulgences. But it has always seemed to be such a laborious process. Worth it in every regard, because that moment when your spoon crackes the brûlée is totally therapeutic, like popping bubble wrap. But it's not the type of task I'd like to take on after a busy day at work (or school, as the case used to be). Even though I love it, crème brûlée has always been a weekend dessert.


Enter the ingenious Dorie Greenspan.

The recipes I tried before seem to require far too many ingredients -- two cups of milk! One cup of cream! Eight egg yolks! -- so no wonder they were so complex compared to Dorie's recipe. You can visit Mari to find the full recipe, but for comparison's sake, Dorie's recipe contains less than two cups of liquid and just three egg yolks.


The custard is rich, the texture is silky, and the flavour is phenomenal. I have found my new crème brûlée recipe. What else did I expect from a woman who used to bake with Julia Child?


Visit Tuesdays With Dorie to check out the other TWDer's results. Check out Mevrouw Cupcake for the full recipe. Thanks for a great choice, Mari!