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Vanilla creme brulee (Cream brulée)

Creme brulee is one of my favorite desserts, soft, delicious and I love that sugar burned on the surface.  I have done it other times but this recipe seemed simply delicious. It is for any season or after any meal, it is always pleasant to eat. Source : Cooking (New York Times)   (Mark Bittman) Ingredients 2 cups heavy or half and half cream   1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or vanilla bean) pinch of salt 5 egg yolks 3/4 cups of sugar more for topping Method Heat oven to 170°c (325 F) In a saucepan , combine cream, vanilla extractand salt and cookover low heat justy until hot. Let sit for a few minutes. If you use vanilla bean discard now. In a bowl beat yolks and sugar together until light.  Stir about a quarter of the cream into the mixture, then pour sugar -egg mixture  into cream and stir. Pour into four  ramekins  and place ramekins in a baking dish , fill dish with boiling water halfway up the side of dishes. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until centers are barely set. Cool completely

lemon glaze madeleines Magdalenas con glaze de limon)

If there is something that we love to bake here are madeleines  so that the other day there were complaints because they were very few ! Sometimes that happens. They assume that there will always be something baked or dessert.  But  not always  I have the time. Anyway, I hope to make madeleines again.(maybe tomorrow) Here is the recipe  I used. So good and delicious! Source: Patisserie made simple by Edd Kimber Ingredients 3 large eggs 1/2 cup superfine sugar 1 cup all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 100 grams unsalted butter melted and slightly cooled plus extra for greasing Lemon glaze zest and juice of 1 lemon 1 cup more two tablespoons powdered sugar sifted Method Put the eggs and the sugar in a large bowl and using and electric mixer beat untiñ thick and pale, about 6 minutes,. Put tyhe flour and baking powder in a separate bowl and beat togetherto combine. Sift a third of the flour mixture over the egg mixture, carefully folding to combine using a spatula, then add the rem

Cherry Ice cream (helado de cerezas)

It was, my birthday  about one month ago, I thought about making a cake but I was not in the mood, so I decided to make cherry ice cream !! I hope you are not bored with  ice cream! It can be made with fresh or frozen cherries, (as was my case) I recommend it ! I made this recipe today again :) :) Adapted from   Erren Kitchen Ingredients  400 grams  frozen cherries stoned of fresh cherries  1 can sweetened condensed milk  3 -4 tablespoons cherry juice taken from the frozen cherries 1 1/2 cups wipping cream 4 tablespoons powdered sugar Method Put the cherries in a medium sized bowl and allow to thaw for about 1 hour. At the same time chill the condensed milk. Once thawed, drain the cherries and reserve the juice. Take a handful of cherries and set aside. Roughly puree the remaining cherries with a blender. Don't make them too smooth- the sould still have a little texture. Whip the cream until it holds its shape, them mix the powdered sugar. Fold the whipped cream into the cherry pur

Raspberry custard Kuchen (kuchen de frambuesas y crema de vainilla)

Kuchen is german for cake.  In the south of Chile we always make kuchen fruits . There are several  varieties of kuchen. This one has a base cake layer with a top layer of smooth creamy layer of custard and finally raspberry, (or strawberries, or blackberries or pears) German cuisine arrived south of Chile about  1846 and 1914 when they inmigrated here and settled in the southern frontier zone. We grow eaten kuchen especially in the south. This is one of my recipes I have in my  Recipes book. Enjoy! Some links about german cuisine : Globetrotters girls ,   Eating chilean  , Food in every country ,  Ingredients For crust 2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 100 grams butter 2 tablespoon greek yogurt 3/4 cup granulated sugar Custard 2 cups whole milk 1/2 cup of sugar 1/2 cup cornstarch dissolved in cold water 3 yolks 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Raspberry sauce 400 grams of fresh or frozen raspberries 3 spoonfuls of sugar 1/2 cup raspberry jam 1 tablespoon constarch dissolved in cold