{"id":1268,"date":"2015-06-03T00:59:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lecoupdegrace.local\/recipe\/ephemere-cherry-beer-creme-brulee\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:39:42","slug":"homemade-creme-brulee","status":"publish","type":"recipe","link":"https:\/\/lecoupdegrace.ca\/en\/recipe\/homemade-creme-brulee\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade creme brulee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\ud83c\udf6e <strong>A creme brulee that tastes like creme brulee<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This one goes back to the first desserts I ever put on the site. What I want from a creme brulee is simple: it has to taste like vanilla and it has to taste like creme brulee. Restaurants keep turning it into chocolate, tea, lavender, whatever is trendy that month, and by then you are not tasting the dessert anymore. You are tasting somebody&#8217;s idea. I keep the thing itself. Cream, egg yolks, sugar, a real vanilla bean steeped in warm milk. That&#8217;s the whole list.<\/p>\n<h3>\ud83d\udd25 <strong>Cold inside, warm on top<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>That&#8217;s the secret, and almost nobody writes it down. I bake the custards in a water bath, let them set in the fridge overnight, and the sugar never touches the top until the moment I serve. A torch, a few seconds, and the crust is still warm when the spoon cracks through. Caramelize early and you get a soft crust on a lukewarm custard. Two mistakes for the price of one.<\/p>\n<h3>\ud83c\udf84 <strong>The holiday dessert you cannot ruin<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Everything happens the day before. On the night of the dinner all you have left is a spoonful of sugar to spread and a torch to light in front of everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udf6e A creme brulee that tastes like creme brulee This one goes back to the first desserts I ever put on the site. 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