Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 Pint Heavy Whipping Cream or Half and Half
- 6 Egg Yolks (not whites)
- ½ Vanilla Bean, split and scrapped
- ¼ Cup Sugar in the Raw
- Blackberries (1 Cup or 1 Pint Package)
- Cassis Liquor (1 Ounce)
- Biscotti (1 Package of Biscotti)
Creme Brûlée with Blackberries - Home & Family
Directions
Preheat oven to 300 degrees
Heat boiling water in tea kettle
- Place heavy cream (or half and half) on stove and heat until just before boiling
- Stir in sugar in the raw and scraped vanilla bean and whisk until smooth
- Add a little bit of hot liquid cream to a bowl with egg yolks and whisk
- Add the hot egg yolk mixture back to pot
- Add 1-ounce Cassis to egg yolk mixture
- Crush biscottis into small pieces and add to egg yolk mixture
- Add 1-pint blackberries to egg mixture
- Gently stir mixture – will be a mixture that resembles fruity bread pudding
- Pour in ramekins and place in brownie pan 9x13
- Place brownie pan in oven with ramekins inside
- Pour hot tea kettle water around the ramekins into the brownie pan
- Bake at 300 degrees for 30 minutes
- Pull out ramekins and let cool for one hour at room temp
- Pour sugar on top of the baked crème brulee
- Burn with blow torch
- Garnish each crème brulee with whole biscottis and fresh blackberries
100% Utilization of Ingredients:
- Left over mix can be used for home made eggnog or ice-cream
- Left over mix can be used for bread pudding
- Once the vanilla bean has been scraped out, the shell can be put in a small bottle of vodka, and turned into homemade vanilla extract