Recipes · inspired by Crème Brûlée in the manga Kitchen Princess, volume 10
Shortcut Crème Brûlée Cups
Cold vanilla custard topped with sugar and caramelized under the broiler until it cracks like glass.
- Ready in
- 8 min
- Then
- Let the sugar harden 5 minutes
- Ingredients
- 3
- Makes
- 4 cups
- Level
- easy
Kitchen Princess is a manga by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi in which every chapter is named after a dish. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of that dish, not the recipe from the book.
Crème brûlée means “burnt cream” in French. The real one bakes slowly in a water bath; starting from ready-made custard skips straight to the best part, the crackly top.
Make it a learning moment: sugar melts at a very high temperature and turns brown and glassy, then hardens as it cools. That is caramelization.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Kids Spoon the cold custard into 4 small oven-safe ramekins and smooth the tops.
- Kids Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of sugar evenly over each.
- Grown-up Put them under a hot broiler (or use a kitchen torch) for 1 to 3 minutes, watching every second, until the sugar melts and turns amber.
- Kids Let them sit 5 minutes so the top hardens, then tap it with a spoon to crack it.
