How To Make Homemade Flan From Scratch
An easy recipe on how to make authentic, homemade caramel and creamy flan from scratch.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 tbsp butter
- splash of heavy whipping cream can use half and half or milk as well.
- 1 14oz can of sweetened condensed milk
- 1 12oz can of evaporated milk
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 eggs
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- (For Flan preheat to 375f) In small pan on low heat, pour sugar and mix until sugar transforms into liquid, melted state
- Once it is in liquid form, turn off heat and let cool for 3-4 minutes, slowly stirring and bringing heat to about room temperature. Add butter gradually by mixing it in. Splash of heavy whipping cream or half and half is optional, stirring in gradually and slowly.
- NOTE** If caramel begins to harden, turn on LOW heat again. This will keep it in the melted state and not begin to harden. This is the most difficult part of the process.
- Drizzle caramel over bottom of metal pan or baking dish.
- FOR FLAN: In a blender, add condensed milk, evaporated milk, 4 egg yolks, 2 eggs, 4 oz cream cheese, pinch of salt, couple drops of vanilla. Blend all together for about a minute.
- Pour flan mix in the pan. Remember this has caramel drizzle on the bottom. Bake at 375 degrees for an hour in hot water bath. (For water bath: Fill water half way in the bigger pan and then insert the flan dish inside water dish.)
- Take out flan and with a butter knife, carefully go around the edges of the flan and the dish to break it loose before flipping it over on a plate. Flip over on a serving dish and refrigerate for an hour.
- Optional: You can drizzle leftover caramel to top of flan as a topping. If caramel has hardened, simply warm it on LOW again until it is in liquid form again.