How to make
This is a famous dessert in Latin America, which is served with cream and fruit. This is one dessert with many names, but we'll call it Chocolate Crème Caramel with Dulce de Leche.
Imagine a soft silky smooth texture of chocolate candy in caramel sauce.
What is Crème Caramel?
It's a French word, but it's also known as flan, caramel pudding.
This is a dessert that consists of 2 components - cream and caramel.
Crème caramel can come in many different flavors. You can also enjoy other flavors such as coffee, chocolate, cocoa, etc.
Crème caramel is prepared using the bain-marie method. This means cooking in a water bath, where you place the molds of crème caramel in hot water and then bake them slowly in the oven.
Once cooked, the cream should be placed in the refrigerator, preferably for 1 night.
And then, to serve, you transfer the crème caramel onto a plate.
Add all the ingredients for the caramel into a pot and cook over medium heat, without stirring, until it turns an amber color.
Carefully divide the caramel into 6 molds (200-250 ml). When you pour the caramel, gently swirl so that the caramel covers 1/2 of the inside of the bowls.
Chocolate cream
In a small bowl, add some milk and cocoa powder. Stir so there are no lumps.
Then add the cocoa mixture to the remaining milk and mix well to combine. Set aside.
In a bowl, add the eggs, condensed milk, vanilla extract and a pinch of salt. Gently mix everything together. Use a hand-held egg beater.
Then pour the milk cocoa mixture into the egg mixture. Again, carefully mix everything just to combine the ingredients.
Strain the mixture. Pour it into the prepared molds and at a distance of (1-1.3 cm).
Cover each bowl with aluminum foil and then place them in a deep baking pan. Pour hot water up to 1/2 of the baking pan using the water bath cooking method.
Bake in a preheated oven at 140ºC for 30 minutes or until fully cooked (be careful not to boil the water while baking the cream).
Remove from the hot water and allow the cocoa crème caramel to cool to room temperature.
Then chill in the fridge overnight or a minimum of 8 hours.
Enjoy!
