Maple crème brulée with caramelized bacon
Filed under: Comfort food, Dessert, Entertaining, Kids-approved
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To make sure your sweetie does the cooking at least once a month, promise you'll make them a maple crème brulée with caramelized bacon! Who said bribery will get you nowhere?
ingredients
Maple crème brulée
- 5 egg yolks
- 500 ml (2 cups) 35% cooking cream
- 80 ml (1/3 cup) maple syrup
- 1/4 cup sugar
Caramelized bacon
- 10 slices Olymel bacon
- 2 tbsp. brown sugar
- 1 tbsp. maple syrup
- 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
instructions
Caramelized bacon
- Preheat oven to 400 °F (205 °C).
- Cook bacon slices until half done, place on absorbent paper and let cool.
- In a deep mixing bowl combine the brown sugar, syrup and spices.
- Dip the bacon slices one at a time in the brown sugar mix. Shake off excess and transfer to an oiled grill on top of a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake until bacon is crisp and immediately remove from oven and let cool one minute. Set aside.
Maple crème brulée
- Preheat oven to 300 °F (150 °C).
- In a bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and syrup. Add cream and stir.
- Place ramekins in an oven-safe dish. Fill with crème brulée mix and carefully add hot water to the dish until it reaches about 1 cm from rim of ramekins. Bake about 60 minutes until edges are cooked but centres still soft.
- Remove ramekins from oven and from baking dish. Refrigerate a minimum of 2 hours.
- For serving, divide sugar onto the crème brulées and brown with a kitchen torch. Insert two caramelized bacon slices in each ramekin before sugar hardens.
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